Originally posted by 49ers808:
Originally posted by jonnydel:
What gives me confidence is his entire body of work. Those playoff games, there was no need to throw the ball. Why give you opponent any opening? It's not just a pick. Your line could let a guy through unblocked and get your qb killed, strip sack, receiver could have it bounce off his hands for a pick(happened 3 times that year).
They were averaging like 7 yard a carry and our D was suffocating both teams. Chew the clock, mitigate any risk and get to the SB. Don't know why that's so crazy to understand.
I've been over all the other great running performances and shows they were all competitive games, that's why the qb's threw more. We blew both teams out.
Jimmy is like 6-1 for game winning drives. I'll trust a guy who has proven that many times to deliver in the playoffs than a rookie who hasn't hardly played in 500 days.
Thank you for being mature and answering the question without getting defensive JD. I understand the reservations on the kid and his inexperience, but wasn't 2019 Jimmy's first full season as a starter too? I guess I have a harder time knocking someone for lacking a body of work when he hasn't had the chance to have a body of work to knock yet.
You're completely missing my point about the playoffs. You don't need to explain all that to me lol. I just think that Trey can also get us to the SB, not only the playoffs, if his route to the SB is the same as the one Jimmy had to get through in 2019. That route and game plan consisting of a heavily reliant run game and defense.
Kyle has said this in the past, his game plan going in to those games wasn't heavily reliant on the run - it was aiming for balance but he changed it up during the game because the run game was rocking so well and the defense was dominant. I really don't believe it had anything to do with Jimmy G. That being said, I doubt our path to the SB is going to be the same. We know that Jimmy G's arm and our run game can be incredibly productive. One of the best in the league.
In 2019 we were 2nd in points scored, 4th in yards gained, 5th in yards per play.
All this while being 19th in offensive plays ran - so let's just put to bed the idea that the defense was giving the offense so many more plays as the reason why we had such a good offense.
So, stopping our offense is no easy task when we have a good scheme tied in with a quarterback who can run the passing offense well. We've all seen how non-effective the offense can be if we don't have a qb running it efficiently or turning the ball over.
Again - to bring it back home. I see zero reason to want to move to Trey and I haven't seen anything that would suggest that this season he'd be able to lead an efficient passing game that ties into the run game.
I get that he'll bring more to the run game, but we need him to be an efficient passer more than we need his added ability in the run game. Even if you believe one to be equal to the other, the sum of the total is lesser than the parts.
An efficient passing game married to our wide zone is incredibly, incredibly effective. Having an explosive zone-read+wide zone with a less efficient passing game isn't going to be as effective against the top teams, IMO.
