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Originally Posted by 9er guy
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.
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Im not taking any Blame from Alex Smith. He did throw short, at times. But, he didn't do it every time. There also, and I don't know if this was a coach cover up, Greg Roman himself, said they encouraged Alex Smith to take a sack at times instead of forcing a turnover. Called it, a "good sack"
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Originally Posted by 9er guy
Still had Crab. Kyle Williams was good enough.
There were a couple plays that KW had EVERYBODY beat and Alex just couldn't make an accurate deep throw.
You are correct. In a monsoon, he couldn't throw an accurate deep ball at candlestick. One, because he doesn't throw deep often, and two, he doesn't have a strong enough arm to cut the candlestick wind like Kaep has. Those are truths. But, in that same game, he had no problem hitting Vernon deep twice on deep balls. Including the go ahead, before said kyle Williams fumbled his first time........Kyle Williams, had a really shitty game. Crabtree got called out on national tv by the greatest of all time jerry rice for being fat, and unable to beat coverage........
And it's not like we needed a 100 yard guy to win that game. We literally just needed an accurate throw past the sticks for a first down to somebody not named Vernon Davis.
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actually, we needed Kyle Williams to hold onto the ball. He fumbled the ball on the second play of the game, remember the jet sweep that we always ran with Ginn, but because he was hurt they ran it with Williams, and he fumbled that too, which set us up with one of those SWEET 3rd and longs that weren't completed. He nearly muffed another punt when he went diving for it. And he did have two costly turnovers.