With the sun disappears, and a powerful New Orleans Saints defeated, finally, Alex Smith, nor crying, nor dance. Defender just breathe since he took it, winning the most fascinating and the subsequent games in his life.
"We're still playing.'s What it means," said Smith, pointing to the electrification of 49ers 36-32 victory over the Saints in the NFC divisional playoff game Saturday at Candlestick Park.
For all genuine humility, Alex, for him it was much more than just a promotion to the next round of the playoffs, the NFC championship game.
It was his time, his silence was more refinement of speech unbelievers masses. It was a decisive answer
for all the years when the number 1 overall pick in the 2005 draft was a runaway leader in the Bay Area sports fan, as an object of scorn and derision and ridicule.
Although the number of doubters and skeptics declined over the past few months, and some finally convinced a breakthrough season, Smith recorded 13.3 in San Francisco, appearing in these playoffs, still much left impressions.
They needed to see how Smith, making his postseason debut, will respond to live or die urgency and pulse-pounding pressure in mid-January football.
They have their own memorable response. Boy, is not it.
Steady throughout the game, outplaying New Orleans Drew Brees star, Smith was absolutely masterful in the last minutes of the contest
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On the back of 49ers 24-23, Smith led the 80-yard return of the disk, punctuating it with a 28-yard sprint around left end for a touchdown with 2:11 to play. When Brees touchdown pass put the counter back to the top of the saints on the left 1:37, Smith took the field and taken to another return, ending the 85-yard drive, compress 14-yard touchdown pass to tight end Vernon Davis with nine seconds left.
With weary 49ers defense collapses, Smith Open the electronic publication of the final 4:02 accessover ran for one score, threw more and completed 7-of-9 passes for 135 yards. He never blinked while putting two exclamation marks on the incredible to bring to an exciting game.
As unfair as compared with Joe Montana and Steve Young is and always will be, calm and bright rooms Smith down the stretch, when the goodness and grace have been using to compare to anything offered by his Hall of Fame 49ers predecessors.
"It may be time to give Alex a little credit, huh?" Coach Jim Harbaugh said.
Well, yes. Smith not only deserves, but he also deserves it.
"I think it's very, very setup, when you consider that Alex dealt with here," Joe Staley left to solve said. "It was Alex against the saints, facing Drew Brees, a great defender. And Alex put us on his back."
When Smith left the field after a brief embrace and exchange pleasantries with Brees, he completed 24 of 42 for 299 yards, three touchdowns with no interceptions and.
In addition, he, this time unanimously visible delight - at least one woman held a sign saying "I love Alex Smith" - and the sound of the crowd sale approval (69 732).
"This is about as good as it gets," Smith said. "There were so many ups and downs in this game, so many ups and downs. We talked about it. We knew that it would seem that a little bit, did not know what it is that extreme."
It was not about redemption or justification, but the possibility of capture, with the right support.
"He deserves it all," said running back Frank Gore, also a member of a class project in 2005 in San Francisco. "He had a difficult time. But I always believed he could play at this level. We have the right people leading us. And he has the right people leading it."
This brings us to the offensive coordinator Greg Roman, the defenders of Christ and GEEP coach Harbaugh. All have brought important elements of the system to support Smith. All they got to it in different ways. It's called quality of training, and this is something Smith rarely received in his first six seasons with the 49ers.
"We have another week of work, and I do not want this to end," Smith said.
Why him? He knows the story, because he lived there, from the endless barbs on sports-talk radio and the constant vilification of fans, the ringing boos at the 'Stick, crazy as it sounds, 49ers stadium fans begging Alex to replace sub-mediocre backup David Carr.Consider phrases such faithless and withering criticism officially out of service.
If this is a work of art from Smith can not be assessed and enjoy even more than he will admit that he could possibly do to squelch the doubters?
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