San Francisco 49ers: What Alex Smith Needs to Show Against Oakland

Alex Smith’s first game in the new and improved 49ers offense was a throwback, featuring all the same maddening mistakes that we’ve come to know and hate over the course of Smith’s star-crossed career.

Those still on the Alex Smith bandwagon, which has been less lonely this offseason with Jim Harbaugh driving, will say Smith’s poor showing in New Orleans was a meaningless preseason game, against a brutal blitzing defense with a newly installed offense.

In short, there is no cause for alarm.

Unfortunately this optimistically narrow view ignores the six years, 50-plus games and few hundred practices Smith has had to improve the...

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