We have to face the fact that teams who make it to the Super Bowls have top passers, even legendary passers. Hall of Fame shoo-ins. What are we to think if we think a marginal quarterback can get by if schooled in the same offensive system in consecutive years, with the same offensive coordinator the last several years?

The purpose of my post is not to write a crafty piece but to pose a question and start a "thread" about how Alex Smith will defy the skeptics and make the 49ers the favorites to win the Super Bowl. Every Super Bowl has it all, a superb passer, a great offensive line, a punishing defense, and a strong running game. Marquee wide receivers. They have won it all because they were running on all cylinders, they barely had weaknesses for opponents to exploit.

It would be interesting to see Alex Smith playing a full season and see what he can do with our current wide receiving corps. Vernon Davis is due for another standout year as a tight end, I believe he will surpass his 13 touchdowns, as long he reduces his drops. Crabtree will have a breakout year, since he will have training camp under his belt and a chance to experience ZEN, harmonizing with the quarterback and meshing with the offense. Offensive Coordinator Raye is the type of coordinator who needs to find out what his players can do, and cannot do. Raye should have the facts by now.

I am just hoping Singletary will grow into a savvy coach like Sean Payton is, like Cowher was. Granted, Singletary is not Bill Walsh. Sing does not have the intellect of a Bill Walsh. We have to depend on coaches Solari, Schottenheimer, Manusky, and Raye to help fill that void, their combined experience will meet the quota.

Alex needs to realize that if he is to bring the 49ers to the Super Bowl he needs to have an extraordinary year as a passer. Truly, I think he is not as good as Drew Brees or Peyton Manning. Alex does not know what he is doing at times. Several games he had a very poor first half (50 yards one first half, or was it 5 yards?). He cannot do that anymore.

We need to draft a quarterback with great potential this year or in 2011. We also need to prep Nate Davis to take over the reins, because McNabb raves about him, we gotta listen to recommendations of other players. McNabb is a guy that can take a team to the Super Bowl, I do not hear anyone raving about Alex Smith, the 49ers starting quarterback.

Anybody else raving over ALEX SMITH? Do you think he can take us to the Super Bowl? Do not give me the same crap, like by saying, "Perhaps Smith can give us a 9-7 season."

I do not want a 9-7 season. I want a 11-5 season or better.

My conclusion it can really only be done with a superb passer who passes for 280-300+ yards nearly every game. Averaging two or more touchdowns a game. Can Alex do that?

Realistically?

This will be my first post under this username, HuddleGenius! I chose this username because if I am a quarterback in the huddle during a game, I want to show the POISE that awes fans, coaches, scouts, general managers, and the pocket-rich owners.

How can the 49ers improve? I will make simple bullets here to state the key points:

1. Coach Singletary has never been a defensive coordinator or has any coordinator experience in both college and the NFL. He needs a mentor. He needs a coordinator's eye and head coaching experience. He is simply a great motivator who has expertise in defensive techniques, because when he played for the Bears, he wasn't the strongest or the fastest, but his techniques drew the lines. I would love having, say, Seifert to stand on the sidelines with Coach Sing and mentor him, so he can improve his game management skills. He needs to improve on time-outs! Communication with officials. Increase the quarterback's confidence when he goes to the huddle or when a time-out is to be called. Choose the right plays to call a challenge on.

2. The 49ers must get either draft choices: Davis, William, Okung, or Iutapi! It is a must. It's EITHER THE OFFENSIVE LINE, or your OFFENSIVE ODOR.

3. DON'T BLOW it BY PICKING THE FUMBLING TEBOW IN THE DRAFT! Get a free agent quarterback to pressure Alex Smith into holding on to his job by stellar performance. Don't allow Smith to feel like the job is his. Start putting Nate Davis into more reps in the pre-season, even during the season. Smith needs to look over his shoulder in 2010, because if we lose more games, the fans will want McCloughan fired and Smith given the boot. Make Nate Davis a project to eventually replace Smith one day. He can flat out play, even McNabb says so.

4. We must franchise Aubrayo Franklin. Even Patrick Willis says so.

5. Lock up Vernon Davis with a better contract, preferably a 6-7 year contract extension.

6. Get a better running back than Glen Coffee. Since losing Kory Sheets, I've been having bad dreams. Like, someone skates by me in the ice ring, slashing by me making bloody snow cones for the fans.

7. We must draft an explosive kick returner who can hit the holes. I don't care whether he is solely a kick returner or can play wide receiver as well, just get somebody scary in there. One who is always a threat, with great field vision, no hesitation, who explodes, and one who will not fumble on the catches. Kind of finding popping candy.

8. Raye must open up his play-calling instead of being too conservative, and we need to have a fast start in the first half, and finish strongly in the second half. Capisce?

9. Get a top strong safety either through the draft or free agency. Move Clements to the strong safety position, and find a cornerback for insurance in case Harris is slow in his comeback. I want a tall, fast cornerback. Not those rock-solid 5' 8" cornerbacks who show their muscle. We need cornerbacks who are both tall and fast. I am not getting into names unless I have studied film. Dashon Goldson stays at free safety, a lock.

10. Find a 4' 10" feet tall spankin' grandma to haunt the locker rooms, I strongly suspect players will raise their playing levels just to get her out of there. Nobody wants to be a grannies' whipping boy in their own locker room. A hillybilly granny preferably, who knows her thing.

11th hour Bullet: Bring back T.O.! (start chanting, T.O., T.O. !!!!!!!!!)