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Alex Smith to Kansas City is as done as it’s going to get

Posted by Sean Tomlinson under Alex Smith, News-ish on Feb 27, 2013

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I hesitate to write this, because over the weekend this trade was effectively done, and then it wasn’t done, and then it didn’t exist. But now we have a much stronger word being used by Jay Glazer.

I like this word “completed” much better.

 

Oh but wait, it gets so much better/worse fast, depending on your fan affiliation.

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Now the Cardinals are doing the required Alex Smith tire kicking

Posted by Sean Tomlinson under Alex Smith, Hearsay and speculation on Feb 26, 2013

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“I have no tattoos, Colin, and therefore I am a CEO”

Alex Smith will be traded, and he’ll be playing football somewhere that isn’t San Francisco next year. This much we can say with confidence. Maybe.

Over the weekend there was just as much confidence percolating about a deal which was “effectively done” even though said deal may never be done. The smokescreen fire still burns strong.

Now to the surprise of absolutely no one, people in Arizona who know things about the Cardinals are saying that football team is doing the required Smith tiring kicking. Wheee.

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Report: Alex Smith trade in place

Posted by Kyle Smith under Alex Smith, Jacksonville Jaguars, Kansas City Chiefs, San Fransisco 49ers on Feb 24, 2013

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Remember when San Francisco 49ers’ QB Alex Smith got injured earlier last season and a young and mobile upstart named Colin Kaepernick stepped in to lead them to the Super Bowl?

You don’t remember that? Really? It was a pretty big story…well anyway, it looks like we’re about to see the end of the 49ers’ quarterback saga.

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Alex Smith will either remain a 49er, or he’ll be traded (oh also, Jim Harbaugh really likes Judge Judy)

Posted by Sean Tomlinson under Alex Smith, Quoting on Feb 22, 2013

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Those are the two options, and pretty much the only two options according to Jim Harbaugh. He was the latest to say words from behind a microphone at the NFL Combine this affternoon, words which are then consumed and dissected by anyone with access to a typing device (hi Jim!).

While saying that he believes his 49ers have the best quarterback situation in the NFL with Alex Smith the backup to young Colin Kaepernick, Harbaugh all but dismissed the possibility of the former being released, calling such a move “unlikely“.

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Don’t ever doubt Jim Harbaugh

Posted by Oliver Macklem under Alex Smith, Colin Kaepernick, Jim Harbaugh, Super Bowl XLVII on Jan 30, 2013


In his two years as an NFL head coach, Jim Harbaugh has yet to make a mistake. He inherited a 6-10 team from Mike Singletary, and promptly spun that into a 13-3 squad that made it to overtime of the NFC championship game in 2012. Harbaugh has been lauded for the way he treats players, conducts practices, and prepares his team each week. He’s a guru when it comes to play design, as San Francisco’s offense always seems to keep the defense guessing.

So when Harbaugh opted to stay with Colin Kaepernick’s “hot hand” after a Week 11 win over Chicago instead of returning to the incumbent Alex Smith, Niners fans (myself included) should have given him the benefit of the doubt.

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The 49ers don’t have a quarterback controversy

Posted by Luke Purm under Alex Smith, Colin Kaepernick, Player perspective on Nov 27, 2012

Contrary to what most football media will tell you, the San Francisco 49ers and head coach Jim Harbaugh don’t have a quarterback controversy. You know why Harbaugh isn’t worried about his QBs? Because San Francisco has a great defense, and a winning record, and two healthy quarterbacks.

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Chain Links: Alex Smith will sit tonight after he wasn’t able to get clearance

Posted by Sean Tomlinson under Alex Smith, Injuries on Nov 19, 2012

Of the four quarterbacks who were injured a week ago — three with concussions — Ben Roethlisberger was on one end of the spectrum, as although it took a day or two for official word to filter down, immediately it seemed like his chances of playing in Week 11 were minimal. But Alex Smith was on the other when positive reports percolated throughout the week, and he was able to practice on a limited basis.

Good news is good, or so we thought. But head injuries are an unpredictable game, and in a surprise development on the morning of the San Francisco 49ers’ Monday night game against the Chicago Bears, Smith was unable to get clearance from a neurologist, according to ESPN’s Chris Mortensen. So he’ll sit and we’ll get a Colin Kaepernick sighting, and the mobile Tim Tebow-ish QB except for the part about not being able to throw will start his first regular-season NFL game under the prime-time lights against the NFL’s fifth-ranked defense. Good luck, kid.

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