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Originally Posted by MagicHef
Unfortunately, I forgot to take sacks into account before when I was talking about the 49ers being a pass first team. This lead me to mistakenly include 2005 as a season in which they ran more than they passed. The truth is that the 49ers passed more than they ran every season between 2005-2010.
In both 2007 and 2009, over 60% of the playcalls were passes.
Conversely, Harbaugh has called more runs than passes in both of his seasons. Suddenly Alex looked better.
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I don't think it was the diff in the amount of passes these staffs asked Alex Smith to throw, those stas are not very different compared with w/l stats of the same periods.
imo the diff is in the poor quality players Smith was playing along with during the Nolan/Singletary seasons compared with the better players he fielded along with during the Harbaugh seasons plus the offensive systems themselves were quite different.
Nolan/Singletary were your RRPP types, very predictable play calling and poor execution by poor quality players. Harbaugh is a guy that will challenge a defense with a pass on first or/and second downs, until you stack the zones with nickel D etc, then he will line up the pistol and **** with your defense -- this imo, along with personnel improvements around Smith and Smith himself became a much better football player -- these are the things that make AS a different QB with Harbaugh compared with the other HC's Smith was playing for.