Why KC won't be successful with Alex Smith

He's going to utilize the short game and screen game a ton. Jamaal Charles will be his Brian Westbrook. McCluster is going to be used a lot in the short game as well. They really need to lock up Bowe now too.

Also, the 70% passing is way overstated. If you look at Reid's later years, he actually threw anywhere between 56-58% of the time on average.

Now, it's also very likely that Chiefs will be playing from behind a lot, so the pass numbers are probably going to be higher anyway.

The offense won't be flashy, but I could see a lot of the same success Reid had in his earlier years. Smith is tailor made to the West Coast game and he protects the ball, very much like McNabb did.

Yeah, Reid may like to throw the ball a lot but the majority of those passes are inside 15 yards.  His idea of a run play is a screen pass or a dump off to a RB out of the back field.  Something Charles and DMC can do very well.  Reid has never had (or wanted probably) a power back and/or run game.  He goes for the quicker smaller backs because they fit what he likes to do.

Tom Brady and Joe Montana are two of the best QB's to play the game and neither one of them would be found guilty of having a great arm that allowed them to get it way down field (no I'm not saying AS is anywhere near these guys).  The same guys, and you could even throw Rodgers into the mix, have most of their success just matriculating it down the field.  Sure criticize them if you want for dinking and dunking but does it get the job done?  Yes.

I know this one:  Because the rest of the Chiefs players aren't that good.

  His idea of a run play is a screen pass or a dump off to a RB out of the back field.  Something Charles and DMC can do very well.

Really?  Charles has played 65 games in his career.  He has 152 catches for 1,282 yards and 7 TD's.  That's an average of 2 catches for 20 yards a game.  He gets a TD every 22 catches.  So thats 1 TD every 11 games.  Not to mention he has been targeted 214 times.  So 30% of the time he's targeted it's incomplete.

Not exactly big on the screen pass in his career.

Tom Brady and Joe Montana are two of the best QB's to play the game and neither one of them would be found guilty of having a great arm that allowed them to get it way down field

Silly statement.  Joe Montana average 12 yards per completion for his career.  He didn't amass over 40,000 yards by dinking and dunking.

Tom Brady also averages 12 yards per completion with over 44,000 yards in his career.

Neither had the strongest arm, but you are crazy to think they can't or couldn't throw the deep ball.  They both did regularly.

Please, understand the game before you start comparing Alex Smith to the all time greats.

Silly statement. Joe Montana average 12 yards per completion for his career. He didn't amass over 40,000 yards by dinking and dunking.

Tom Brady also averages 12 yards per completion with over 44,000 yards in his career.

Neither had the strongest arm, but you are crazy to think they can't or couldn't throw the deep ball. They both did regularly.

Please, understand the game before you start comparing Alex Smith to the all time greats.

Wow...just effing wow.

last time I checked 12 is less than 15 and of those 40,000+ yards for each of those guys, how many of those was the ball in the air and how many were gained by the receiver running after catch?

No where did I say either of those all time greats couldn't throw it down field.  What I said is that neither did it more than they dinked and dunked, once again a 4 yard slant where the reciever runs for 20 yards counts for 24, not 4 in the passing stats.

Apparently your reading skills need some improvement as I clearly stated I wasn't trying to put AS in the same category as these greats.  The point was a dink and dunk type attack can be very successful and a QB doesn't have to throw it 20+ yards down field every time to be successful.