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"I'm just being patient and doing what I know," [link widoczny dla zalogowanych][/u] said. "It's hard to be patient sometimes, but I've learned over the years I don't have any choice but to be patient. When the opportunity comes, I'm going to be thankful for it and move on."
Now in his second season, and with a team fighting for the NFC West title, Smith is more concerned about winning games than he is about "filling shoes."
[link widoczny dla zalogowanych][/u], who missed 71 days last year in a contract dispute after the 49ers made him the 10th overall pick in the draft, still is waiting to do in the pros what he did in college. He has had only one 100-yard game, catching nine passes for 105 yards and a TD in an Oct. 10 loss to the Eagles.
"Football is football," Smith said. "At the end of the day, I'm just happy that I'm a part of this team. Wherever they ask me to play is where I want to play. You've got to just go forward every day and focus on being the best that you can be at whatever you're doing, whether it's right tackle or left tackle."
He knows it. Texas Tech fans know it. The 49ers know it.
[link widoczny dla zalogowanych][/u] and Troy Smith have hit it off.
"That's a positive having a solid quarterback and really not going back and forth," [link widoczny dla zalogowanych][/u] said. "Just knowing who we're going with and what we're doing, you can't beat that."
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"I was blessed I only had to work with one quarterback," [link widoczny dla zalogowanych][/u] said in a telephone interview.
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[link widoczny dla zalogowanych][/u], who is averaging 12.9 yards per catch in his career with a long catch of 50 yards, said he believes he and the 49ers have turned the corner. He points to Troy Smith as his and the team's savior. Smith is 29 of 47 for 552 yards with two touchdowns and no interceptions in two games.
Smith, a Dallas W.T. White and Baylor product, has yet to play left tackle. He is the starting right tackle,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], with rookie Rodger Saffold having become the Rams' left tackle.
In the two games Troy Smith has started, the 49ers are 2-0. [link widoczny dla zalogowanych][/u] has been his favorite target, with 10 of Smith's passes directed his way. [link widoczny dla zalogowanych][/u] has made seven receptions for 114 yards and two touchdowns in victories over the Broncos and the Rams.
As the No. 2 overall pick last year, Jason Smith received a six-year deal with $33 million in guarantees from the St. Louis Rams. He immediately was tabbed "the next Orlando Pace."
"He's giving me a chance to make a play," said [link widoczny dla zalogowanych][/u], a former Dallas Carter star. "It just seems like we've got that football connection. I used to play quarterback, so we really had the same situation coming out of high school, being [recruited as] athletes. It's real easy for me to communicate with him and really get on the same page."
San Francisco 49ers receiver [link widoczny dla zalogowanych][/u] knew only one quarterback in his two seasons playing at Texas Tech. Graham Harrell threw [link widoczny dla zalogowanych][/u] 41 touchdown passes in 2007-08.
"The pressure [to live up to expectations] is less than it was a year ago," Smith said in a telephone interview. "Now, I feel the same pressure everybody feels, which is the pressure to win and be perfect at what you're doing, not necessarily worrying about, wanting to think about being a high draft pick or not. When you step between those white lines, none of that matters. It doesn't matter where you were drafted or if you were drafted."
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In only 20 NFL games, [link widoczny dla zalogowanych][/u] has had four quarterbacks. He has caught passes from Alex Smith, Shaun Hill and Troy Smith, and the only pass attempt David Carr directed at [link widoczny dla zalogowanych][/u] was intercepted.
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"I've only been here a year and a half, and I've been through four quarterbacks already," [link widoczny dla zalogowanych][/u] said. "That's just crazy. I didn't expect that. At the same time, I'm just trying to work with whoever we have. Right now, I feel like we have some stability at quarterback."
Pace, the No. 1 overall pick of the Rams in 1997, started 154 games and went to seven Pro Bowls in 12 seasons as St. Louis' left tackle.

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