Mr. Smith Goes To Mars 2: Electric Moonagloo
So my silly Alex Smith on the moon dream idea has…ballooned somewhat. Prepare for this week to be EXCLUSIVELY Alex Smith moon comics. Offseason ahoy! My first 4-part saga! I hope it provides you as much silly fun as I’ve had thinking it up. The payoff should also be a nice reward for long time readers.
Someone mentioned Alex Smith as the Texans QB on the previous comic and it’s funny, he probably would be a good fit there. Being a safe QB who keeps turnovers to a minimum while leaning on a productive run game, with the help of an all-star defense is pretty much exactly how he got within one Kyle Williams knee of the Super Bowl. I’d imagine Nuk would not be utilized to his complete potential but at least Smith can throw a ball 10 yards pretty reliably, unlike the lobstrosity.
Smith is like the definition of a game manager. He’s almost the pinnacle of the term. If he won the Super Bowl people would throw him in the same category as good ol’ Brad Johnson, that guy who didn’t screw up enough and let everyone else do the work. Or possibly the Steelers in 2005. Man that was a shit game.
I wonder if you’d have to put Smith at exactly league average? Ignoring stats, more looking at his history and his abilities at this point, which seem well defined. I’m curious what teams he’d be an upgrade for. Let’s brainstorm.
Browns for sure
Dolphins? Possibly a wash. Tannehill seems like just another wanna be Alex Smith. Not much better on his good days, and far worse on his bad ones.
Bears
49ers, ironically
Jets
Jaguars
Texans
Bills
Vikings? Not really sure, but I’d be open to it, and it might depend on the future of Teddy
Rams
Cardinals, but only if Carson Palmer is finally dead
That’s actually less than I expected. Anyone close to Smith in skill level is younger and still has lots of upside. Smith has a few more years left in the league and I’m curious what his legacy will be if he never gets farther than he did in 2015, winning a playoff game for the Chiefs. Will we remember him at all? It doesn’t even feel like he was the QB on the 49ers team that almost made it in 2011, Kaep’s influence on that team in subsequent years kind of overshadows it.
Lol now this comic shows you can go to the moon
“The payoff should also be a nice reward for long time readers.”
Do I sense a stopover on Planet Sexy?
Will there be “The Final Insult”?
Don’t want to nitpick, but shouldn’t the one season to remember Alex Smith for be 2011? The guy won a playoff shootout against Drew Brees and was then basically one play away from going to a Super Bowl with a team that had gone 6-10 the year before, not like I’m a huge fan or anything, but that’s something.
People keep under rating and disrespecting Alex Smith. Game “manager”? He’s the game superintendent at least.
Game manager is a term that not a lot of people like to use, but I think it accurately depicts guys like Alex Smith, and Russell Wilson when he was younger.
In essence every good/great QB is a game manager to some extent though, but some quarterbacks have more asked of them than others I guess.
Being a game manager isn’t a bad thing by itself — that’s a matter of how much is asked of you. But if “game manager” is your ceiling, it’s not good
Correct. You want your QB to manage the game, but if that’s ALL he can do that’s when it’s a problem.
Unless you’re playing for a team with a sub 200 points defense and a great RB who may be the GOAT of his position.
Go Preds. Beat Crosby into a bloody pulp P.K. Subban. Represent the Preds name.
Also, Alex Smith would instantly improve Buffalo, Denver, and the Bucs by week 9 after Shameis tears his ACL and Fitzmagic turns into Fitztragic.
Smith was better than Brad Johnson. I’d put Alex up there with Chad Pennington
nah, Tyrod is a better Alex Smith with +10000 mobility. Dont think Smith would be an upgrade.
Can’t see Miami going for him. He might be a slightly better option than RT17, but for the limited time he has left it’s not really worth it. I can see us drafting a QB in the first couple of rounds next year if Tannys doesn’t progress.
Dude Tanny is coming off a major injury there’s no way that wouldn’t be factored in if he had a subpar season
I disagree about Tannehill. Smith is clearly superior. Not because of fancy metrics like “how good is he” but because one time Tannehill got snapped to when he wasn’t ready for it and the slow-mo look of pure panic on his face as he turns his head and sees the football flying by is the second-best sports gif of all time (behind the buttfumble, obv)
aaaaaaaaaaaand now I’m sooper sad again.
My work here is done.
How dare you even mention Kyle Williams
Forward progress was not stopped! Arghhhhhhhhh!
Kinda disagree about the Bills. Tyrod is basically a more athletic, less experienced Alex Smith whose defense was wrecked by the Ryan bros