He said some fair things, but yeah, you could tell that he is still holding onto an outdated outlook on Alex in some regards.

Tattoo Boy was shit on 3rd down too. Playcalling to protect the ball?

Ugh. This guy can't throw outside the hash marks, either?

That's only every QB we've ever had since Montana, it seems.

Thanks. It's good to hear this from a 49ers fan. Suspicions confirmed.

Can't stress enough how much our developing offense and playcalling was the largest issue for our RZ and 3rd down issues. Can't force people to accept this, however.

Guessing a lot of draws and screens then with both QBs on 3rd and long?

Bingo. Plenty were clever clear-outs over the middle... but unless the target gets above-and-beyond (unexpected) YAC? It's simply a way to garner better field position. Very cautious football. And in the RZ? 2 straight and obvious runs... then a QB rollout on 3rd down and frequent throw-away when targets are blanketed. There was an article posted a long while back that our coaches preferred and pushed for sacks + throw-aways VS forcing a turnover.

Pretty much coincides with what I saw when I watched the 9ers play under Harbaugh. The problem is the Madden Nation ballas/fantasy football dweebs won't hear anything of just how important and how many games are decided by turnover differential in today's game. Like the top 8 teams in the NFC in turnover differential had winning records.

I have 114 for the regular season. Good for 30th in the league.

Crabtree was an after thought in this offense. I don't think we utilized him well at all.

It was Run, Vernon, Run. Run, Screen pass, run. Then maaaybe a throw to Crab. I'm telling you man.

All those targets didn't amount to anything because Crab and Smitty never really got on the same page. More than a few of them were errant passes that either Crab had to grab and fall or just couldn't catch. You can target somebody all you want. But if there's no plays being made, then it doesn't really matter. There's a reason he turned into a 1,000 yard guy when Kaep came on.

All I know is in the NFCCG we had 1 completion to a WR and we were 1-13 on third down.

I'm sure some of his games are on Youtube. You can see what I'm talking about in real time.

Naw man. Not at all. He' come a LOOOOONG WAAAY. But there's some things he just doesn't do that well.

I've watched pretty much every game he'e ever played.

He's one of those guys where:

The best thing about him is you know exactly what you're going to get.

The worst thing about him? You know EXACTLY what you're going to get.

The cold hard stats are hard to accept for some...Alex Smith dislikes those wide receiver guys...

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Completely agree. Many don't have the mental aptitude to appreciate turnover differentials and field position/situational football. 3rd and 17? Just chuck it up, who be caring? Football not funz unless you iz chucking up the rock all day!

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Our resident Alex Smith homer blames this on his lame receiver corps.

You know that might be part of it.

But at the same time I felt the first downs were there a lot of the time.

Like say it's 3 and 7. Smitty will throw 3 yards short of the marker.

Now, sometimes that's good and sometimes that's bad.

The point is he did every time no matter what.

So while I agree that Harbaugh's/Roman's overall philosophy is conservative. There times when the play-calling in games very, very, aggressive.

But I felt no matter if we were playing aggressive or conservative, Alex would inherently make the more conservative choice.

Shoot, if not for his legs, he probably would have been worse.