LNBS: Can Alex Smith be "Fixed"?

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Originally Posted by BossChief

The OL was fine the first half of the year and then seemingly got really bad overnight.

I think it's clear as day that a big part of that was Alex Smith refusing to take advantage of the deeper throws when they were available. Made safeties refuse to respect our ability to throw the ball past 10 yards...so they could crowd the line and shut down the run while also eliminating most YAC. Teams were able to blitz a little more against us to create more pressure and that put a lot more pressure on the OL...especially when Andy wanted to call a more pass happy attack to counter teams stacking to stop the run.

The OL was never fine. It was always below average and got worse over night. It negatively effected all of the offense.