Excellent news about Gamble. If it ends up being him, we really lucked out considering the CAP situation mess left by T and the fact that any new GM would HAVE to keep Rex.
This is actually a great and very telling fact, another bullet in my ammo against Sanchez, thank you. Here is what you have just shown. 1. It is a fact that Smith has improved during the course of his career while Sanchez has regressed during the course of his. 2. Smith's 4 worst years are not as bad as Sanchez's last 2. Thanks, great stats
You know your point is a good one when the people that are arguing against you end up giving you ammo while trying to dispute your point. It's such a no brainer. Sanchez got worse. Smith got better.
Fine.....Sanchez got worse, Smith got better. What happened to the talent around both guys on Offense after their first 2 years ??
Smith's worse years are leaps and bounds better than Sanchez's worst. Needless to say, that goes for his best years. Anyone wanting Sanchez over Smith is crazy.
you guys are crazy with this whole smith, sanchez debate smith was put into the best position to succeed and its not even close. he has the best oline in football, a crazy good running game, one of the best TEs in football, and talented WRs. we got nothing. if you take smith before harbaugh he was absolute trashed and there was pressure for him to leave/sit
Leaps and bounds??? in 2007 Smith played 7 games. He completed 48% of his passes for 900 yards, with 2 tds, 4 ints, 6 fumbles. Ironically, the only QB to have a worse passer rating than him was our very own Kellen Clemens. Smith was terrible too. He has been surrounded by supreme talent, and still hasn't been too good. Putting him on the Jets would really really really worry me, as he could easily have the same year sanchez just had.
Hasn't been too good? Might wanna check his numbers from the past two years. He was two muffed punts away from starting in a Superbowl and unlike Sanchez, his team wasnt winning in spite of him.
2010 54.8 3291 17 13 75.3 2011 56.7 3474 26 18 78.2 Not the best numbers but when he has talent he can be a decent QB
I like Gamble... I don't understand why everyone on this board is tying him to Alex Smith as a done deal. Just because Smith is the backup QB of the team Gamble works for? Is that all it takes... I'd much rather have a QB that has worked with the new OC before, not the GM. Smith did what he did with: Vernon Davis, Michael Crabtree (kid has gotten better), Manningham, Randy Moss (a motivated version of Randy Moss) and Frank Gore... all of that with one hell of an OL and a team with great D (how many times did e have to come from behind). Gamble knows all of this and will keep it in consideration. I don't dislike A. Smith but c'mon... That said, if it happens I want this guy for OC: http://www.49ers.com/team/coaches/geep-chryst/3ac62f4d-a289-46f6-bc9f-031f34771f8c Started working with Alex Smith in Jan 2011... enough said.
Agree with the stopgap part, but there's no way Smith has any potential to be anything more than he's been the past couple of years. He's a good game manager, and that wasn't good enough for the Niners. That's certainly better than Sanchez, but we need to concentrate on a stopgap solution for next year, keep our draft picks, and use what little cap space we have to shore up the weaker parts of the team so that whoever is in here (even if it IS Sanchez) doesn't have the same cast of Division III offensive players that we have now.
Yeah, I don't think it's that simple, that he'd be brought in. He does work for the team that got his replacement, too, you can look at it that way. I'm not totally opposed to Smith. He's a little better than Matt Moore/Tarvaris Jackson/Jason Campbell and the other FAs. The issue is Smith may cost more in money and in other resources.
@Brian_Bassett: BREAKING: Source w/ knowledge of #Jets contracts tells TJB Jets have essentially "cemented" deal w/ Tom Gamble. Deal likely to run 3-4 yrs.
a betting man would say the officioal announcement comes monday night and the tuesday presser will be his intro
