Alex Smith will surpass everyone’s expectations as the team goes forward. He has the athletacism and the tools to really be a great QB and I think easily on the same level as Steve Young. I watched some old YouTube video of Alex last night including the Tostitos Bowl from January of 2004 and the Seattle game after which Frank Gore declared “Alex became a man tonight”. I see a lot of similarities in those clips and what we all saw on Sunday in Houston. If you have not seen them in a while you all need to refresh your memories. I know that Utah was runniing the spread exclusively, but damn Alex looked like a QB machine. With Raye declaring the obvious, that the offense will be more pass oriented with Smith, Davis and Crabs, I anticipate a lot of great things for the entire offense unit even with a less than average O-line. If we get a solid O-line assembled over the off season and one more great defense back and a pash rusher we are capable of going deep into the playoffs. If you’re old enough to remember the Walsh years you will remember it took three full years for us to get to the top, I anticipate a similar time frame for this new coaching administration and pool of players. So we all need to exercise more patience.
Is it just me, or is Jimmy Raye the slowest speaker in the world. The man talks forever to give an answer, in his press conferences, which is not a bad thing, because he is clearly very intelligent and I appreciate that he takes the time to think about what he says. But I am wondering if this slowness translates into him being able to think at “game speed” when he is making play calls during a game. Perhaps his slowness is one of the reasons there have been some issues with delay of game penalties. Hmmm, just a thought. Go Niners!