Alex Smith’s Limitations Spell Big Trouble for Chiefs in AFC West

November 25, 2016   ·   Gary Davenport   ·   Jump to comments

The AFC West has become the NFL's best division in 2016. Three of the division's four teams sit at 7-3 or better.
One team, the division-leading Oakland Raiders, features one of the league's best offenses and an MVP candidate in quarterback Derek Carr.
Another team, the Denver Broncos, is the defending world champion. They possess arguably the NFL's best defense and a Defensive Player of the Year contender in outside linebacker Von Miller.
Then there are the Kansas City Chiefs, a team that does many things well but nothing great. They don't have Oakland's high-powered offense. They don't have Denver's punishing defense.
And if quarterback Alex Smith doesn't ratchet up his game in a hurry ahead of Sunday's showdown with the Broncos in Denver, the Chiefs aren't going to have much of a shot at winning the division or making noise in the AFC playoffs.
At first glance, Smith's numbers last week against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers don't look bad. He completed 77.4 perce...

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