Alex Smith gives Harbaugh no credit for the QB's sudden sucess.

Alex Smith is delusional. If what he told media in Kanasa City is to be believed, then here's to hoping he comes out of his "Family Guy" inspired side gag in time to seek the lineman coming for his head.

Alex Smith

CBS is reporting what Smith said, but didn't do a good job of telling the readers, to whom Smith was  addressing at the time.
He is quoted as saying the Chief's "can win now." That's fine. If I'm his coach or a KC fan, if I don't here that from Smith, then we have a problem. Smith should have stopped there, but didn't/couldn't. From 2010- to 2011, the '9ers went from 6-10 to 13-3. How did they do that? Did Alex Smith get better? Alex doesn't seem to know what it was?
"I felt like we had a very talented team that underachieved the year before for whatever reason. New stock came in and there was a lot of turnover and change in culture, and we saw a group of guys buy in and saw what could happen."
"For whatever reason? Really dude? For whatever reason? Could Jim Harbaugh have been the reason?

Jim Harbaugh

In 2009, Smith stated 11 games  completed 60.5% percent of his passes for 2550 yards, 18 TD passes, 12 int's for an 81.5% QB rating.

The Niners went 6-10.

Then they hired Jim Harbaugh. The team went 13-3. Smith completed 61% of his passes, threw for 3144 yards, 17 TD's, 5 int's for a rating of 90.7%

Whatever happened?!

Smith came into the league in 2005. He started 7 games, threw for 875 yards, one touchdown, and, count 'em, 11 interceptions. Smith's QB rating was 40.8%.

The next season, Smith started all 16 games. He threw 16 touchdowns and 16 interceptions and the team finished 8-8.

After that, Smith's career in San Francisco was only marginally better. He got injured in 2008 and didn't play in a single game. Local reporters were already packing Smith's bags.

"Alex Smith's rocky career with the 49ers apparently is over, little more than three years after he was the top pick in the NFL draft." Tom FitzGerald of the SF Chronicle wrote that, but can you blame him? This is what the GM said about Smith at about the same time.
The 49ers can't afford to bring him back next year at his scheduled $9 million, with an expensive salary-cap hit, unless he was the clear-cut starter.

I'm getting to why Smith should thank and acknowledge Jim Harbaugh, but first let's all admit that Smith was as good as gone in 2008. Why shouldn't he have been? Smith completed just 48.7% of his passes in 2007, threw two touchdowns and nine interceptions.

Colin Kaepernick

                                                                  

What did Colin Kaepernick do in his second season? He started 7 games completed 62.4% of his passes for 1814 yards AND 415 yards rushing, 10 TD passes, 3 int's for a 98.3 QB rating.

So while Alex is still figuring out whatever happened we know what happened, Jim Harbaugh happened, and its time Smith started giving him the credit.