Early OTAs Prove Donavan is a Bad Idea.
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The San Francisco 49ers started their off-season training program yesterday. The one thing to come out of the first day of practice is that Alex Smith is poised to have a break out season. He started the day with four passes to Crabtree, he then continued to bark out orders, putting people in position, and hogging all the first team reps. Overall he just looked like a NFL Quarterback.
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This is big news considering the 49ers interim GM came out last week and said the 49ers are not talking to the Eagles about Donavan McNabb. He also said that the 49ers are happy with their quarterback situation. Before he spoke on the topic, it was widely speculated that the 49ers would be in the running for the borderline hall of fame QB. Those rumors have been put to rest and this 49ers faithful couldn’t be happier.
Here’s why, for one:
The Cost.
To get Donavan McNabb, the 49ers would at least have to give up their second round pick and a player. That doesn’t seem like too much to get a Pro Bowl Quarterback coming off two of his better seasons, although that wouldn’t be all the 49ers would have to give up. They would also have to give a 33-year-old player a long-term deal. With the young players that the 49ers have still in their rookie contracts (i.e. Patrick Willis and Deshoun Goldson) and two first round picks in this years draft, the 49ers can’t really afford to do this right now. The last thing this would cost the 49ers is another draft pick on a developmental Quarterback. If the 49ers grab McNabb to win right now, in three years we will be done winning and will have to find a replacement for McNabb. This would cost the 49ers another second or third round pick in one of the next two NFL Drafts. So it would cost the 49ers two second round picks, a young player, and one of the richest contracts to get an aging Quarterback.
Alex Smith
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In 2005 the 49ers used the number one overall pick to select a Quarterback out of Utah. This QB was Alex Smith. That was the only favor the 49ers did for the young QB. Since then Smith has had five offensive coordinators, no offensive line, no receivers, and a defensive minded coach who was more interested in looking snazzy on the sideline than actually winning. Smith has been injured, replaced, and has even taken a pay cut, all to come out last year and finally look like he could be a legit NFL QB.
The biggest advantage Smith has over McNabb is his resolve. With all the crap the 49ers put him through he has done nothing but be a quality player and a great teammate. Alex Smith has the physical tools and he finally has everything necessary to succeed in the NFL. We will find out this year if he can do it.
Donavan McNabb
McNabb is the Anti-Smith. From the time the Eagles drafted McNabb out of Syracuse, he was given the tools to win a super bowl. His teams have always had a great defense, he’s had a great running back behind him, and most importantly, McNabb has had Andy
Reid. With Reid, the Eagles have run the most Quarterback friendly system in the league. The 49ers know that all too well. We all remember Koy Detmer stepped into the same system and crushed us, and then did that stupid “crack the whip†dance all night.
With all the tools McNabb has, he has not won a Super bowl. I remember a time when that was all the 49ers were about. Isn’t that what the 49ers are trying to get back to? We know what McNabb does in Championship games; he loses and throws up. That isn’t what the 49ers need.
I understand that we have had Alex Smith for five years now, and we should know what he brings to the table, but because of the 49er’s mismanagement, we don’t. This is the year we find out. Not the year we start over with an aging QB.
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