NFL1000: Can the Chiefs Make a Super Bowl Run with Alex Smith as Their QB?

December 5, 2016   ·   Doug Farrar   ·   Jump to comments

After their 29-28 win over the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday, the Kansas City Chiefs stand at 9-3, one game behind the surprising Oakland Raiders in the AFC West and a game ahead of the defending Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos. They've won 19 of their last 22 regular-season contests. They have one of the league's better pass-rush units, an above-average defense and an offense that manages to be efficient and productive despite a relative lack of explosive targets.
If the Chiefs are to make to their first Super Bowl in the post-merger era (Super Bowl IV remains their benchmark), quarterback Alex Smith will have to put more on his shoulders. And if you're even remotely familiar with the NFL over the last decade, the standard narrative says Smith is incapable of doing so.
Oh, sure, he's a good quarterback. The first overall pick in the 2005 draft has turned himself into a safe, turnover-averse player with a sound sense of the field, a command of a complex system under ...

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