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Originally Posted by Mac-NinersChiefs
Yeah, pretty much. Do you all agree that it was surprising to you and Alex that given the defensive play, the CB didn't backpedal at all?
Either way though.. Alex made himself look silly. I still don't see how the TE doesn't become the 1st read.. but it happens.. and with good coaching comes making note of that for next time.
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It wasn't surprising at all to be honest. Just as I thought the Saints game plan was to take away anything deep, clearly the 49ers plan was to pressure Alex Smith relentlessly, and to take away the short stuff and challenge him to go long.
Now, with that being said, we don't know what audibles are in, or if there were any as they said they didn't game plan for this. We don't know what the option routes were incase of bump coverage, but what was sure is that on that play there were 4 short routes ran, and the 49ers sat on all of them.
one would hope that if it were a regular season game that Bowe would of had the option to go deeper with his route, and that alex would of lobbed it up to him in that situation especially with the safety on a blitz.....