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Alex Smith absolutely can win a Super Bowl and be an Elite QB.
There is no heinous flaw in his game that would prohibit this.
As a 49ers fan I can easily tell you that his flaw is arm strength. He struggle with the deep ball and throwing outside of the hashmarks. One of the biggest reasons Harbaugh made the QB switch was because Kap makes the opposing defense have to account for the whole field. Smith has such a high completion percentage because he throws mostly short passes. IIRC in the game on Monday night where he went 19/20 he never threw the ball beyond 15 yrs. Yes that will work on the lesser teams that can't challenge the 49ers defense but the elite teams will and have exploited that. Most notably the Giants. Yes Kyle Williams was the goat for last years NFC championship game but Smith only completing one pass for 3yrds to a WR certainly didn't help. At one point from the 3rd qtr to overtime the Giants punted 7/8 possession (iirc I'm going straight from memory so forgive me if I'm off a little) and the 49ers only scored 3 points during that stretch. Yes Kyle Williams muffed 2 punts but if your offense can muster a TD drive, you win that game.
Another weakness I can point out is that he doesn't put up enough TDs in the redzone. There was a reason that David Akers set a record for most fieldgoals made in a season last year. I think they had oe of the worst redzone offenses last year. That also came back to bite them in the ass in that Giants loss.
I disagree with the no having a flaw statement but I agree whole-heartedly that he'd be an upgrade over the older Weeden. I'm just not sure Alex Smith is a QB capable of winning the big game meaning Super Bowl.