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Originally Posted by KCSLC2008
Some people act like Smith can throw adequately for throws 1-29 and on passes 30+ he suddenly started throwing INTs and incompletions. Reality was that since he was in run-first offenses, he'd often only throw 30+ times in games where he was playing catchup. The catchup parts were in garbage time where the defense was in prevent, but it didn't overcome the bad start - getting few shots make it harder to get it done.
Reid will game-plan for a lot of throws and these throws will be in the same difficulty level as Smith has done well in. Defenses know this, so there's some problems, but Smith will likely have some success and be able to throw a lot more than he did in Harbaugh's run-first offense (which he ran more than he passed even with Andrew Freakin' Luck).
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precisely!
This gets commonly overlooked by those with an agenda. Add to it, SF had... for a long time... an offense that was anything but creative in deep play design. They focused on playing THEIR WAY... conservative offense and field position. So when things went wrong, they didn't have a grand plan B to catch back up. They also lacked... aside from VD.. a big play receiver that could get them large chunks quickly. Add to that, we built this OL years ago for power running. This OL wasn't remotely ideal for protecting 7 step drops that allowed for deep routes.