It's become painfully obvious that Steve Smith...

[Porn Shop Clerk]

I'm tired of him punching teammates.

[Huffgolf30]

how can you blame him for losing his focus when he has a pos qb throwing to him. delhomme has been horrid since the oakland game of last year.

[Tweeder]

It is a given....Smitty by going after the ball and playing hard has kept Delhomme on the field. Now that he is not playing as hard and is doubled/tripled teamed(No other threats on the field) is exposing Delhomme for what he has been all along, a very mediocre QB.

[Carl Spackler]

how can you blame him for losing his focus when he has a pos qb throwing to him. delhomme has been horrid since the oakland game of last year.

Pretty easy, because as a WR you're not supposed to lose focus and change routes mid-play while the ball is in the air.

[omgwtf]

I can see where one wonders if Smitty is beginning to lose a step, but I think that it is hard to evaluate based on three games...especially in light of the horrible overall team play.

[DaCityKats]

he had already changed routes before jake threw it....newman played the inside the whole time with safety and lb help.

[Claws]

While I don't think Smith is falling off at ALL, I do think he didn't finish his slant route last nite on that newman interception.

Had he ran it out rather than cut back, it might've been a completetion.

Of course, even with the freakin ball in the closing minutes Jake was only looking 10 yards in front of him.....geeeezzz louiiiiizzzzeeee

[CRA]

While I don't think Smith is falling off at ALL, I do think he didn't finish his slant route last nite on that newman interception.

Had he ran it out rather than cut back, it might've been a completetion.

Of course, even with the freakin ball in the closing minutes Jake was only looking 10 yards in front of him.....geeeezzz louiiiiizzzzeeee

not to defend Jake but it was noted that all of the playcalls had WRs going short. We may seriously have the worst OC, DC, HC combo in the league.....they just have talent that makes up for it.

[Claws]

not to defend Jake but it was noted that all of the playcalls had WRs going short. We may seriously have the worst OC, DC, HC combo in the league.....they just have talent that makes up for it.

Now that you mention it, it didn't even dawn on me there weren't receivers downfield. If that's true, and I don't doubt you, then that's a shame.

How the hell is it remotely possible to score two TDs in 2 minutes throwing damn dink and dunk? There's no excuse for not opening up the playbook and throwing downfield. Thanks for pointing that out.

[OARevolution]

We were only down by 6 when Jake threw the pick and there was plenty of time left in the game to "dink and dunk." But.... When we were down by two scores we needed to get the ball down the field more, but they were in a prevent defense and everything was open underneath.

[Jase]

bump.

phase 2: denial

[beastson]

Yea denial... key word

So why didn't you bump this after last week?

Wait... before u respond... dont

[Jase]

he had an awful performance last week, too. His statistics belied that fact.

[Jase]

Please spare yourselves with the panty bunching. The bottom line is I continue to be right until smitty proves me wrong.

Sloppy routes, check.

Lack of effort, check.

Lolligagging, check.

Whining and bitching on the sidelines, check.