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Originally Posted by the_spatula
Watch the games. Alex Smith has very clear limitations: the most obvious of those limitations is his inability to throw the deep ball.
Some people were arguing that the fact that he overthrew some of his deep balls recently indicates that he has plenty of arm strength. He doesn't. Smith throws the fade route early so that receivers won't out-run his range. He just can't spin a tight, level 3 deep ball very well.
He has chosen precious few moments to throw the fade and it is always a pre-snap read (and almost always just for show). He throws it early and deep so that it won't be picked.
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Fade routes are always thrown early to allow the WR to run under the ball. If your talking about the stop fade route, well that route is always thrown early before the WR comes to a stop so that the defender runs himself out of the pay. I think you were referring to a go route or what is often called a nine route.