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At the risk of repeating what someone might have explained. Reasons for the low pass attempts include:
- Harbaugh loves his balanced offense... even did with the Great Andrew Luck as his QB.
- We do have the excellent Frank Gore, and many of our OL drafted prior to Harbaugh were there more for being dominant run blockers.
- SF has one of the best defenses and punters in the game... playing the field position game was always a high priority to our defensive minded coaches prior to Harbaugh.
- passing games were said to always take the longest to evolve in a new scheme... which we so frequently had from all of the coaching carousels.
- even the dynamic Kaepernick was averaging 27 attempts per game (the games counted after he shared snaps in STL after Smith concussion)
- some may have it implanted in their heads that Alex will fail if asked to throw the ball more. I really don't think this will be a problem. As long as the threat of the run stays reasonably strong (for PA too), more attempts shouldn't be some horrible detriment to success.
*not forcing this opinion on others... just stating my opinion on it.
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