Originally posted by binary2nd:
Originally posted by BrianGO:
Originally posted by Giggidy:
Originally posted by 9erfan4life:
Philly game 39 pass 18 rush
Atl game 32 pass 22 rush
NO game 32 pass 22 rush
^12 turnovers lost by a combined 8 points.
Here’s a philosophy hold on to the damn football
Exactly. I don't know any philosophy, strategy, or tactics that could work if our turnovers remain high.
The turnovers have occurred mostly on short passes and on runs.
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This goes without saying, some people just don't get it. When you built your Offense around short passes and long drives, it makes it a lot easier for defenders to cheat and clog passing lanes, and also to tip balls. Also, the amount of third and longs we put our QBs in is startling, it's an obvious passing down where very few QB perform well. We led the league in third and long situations last year. It all goes back to playcalling and strategy.
I think its a really confused issue.
For example, I don't think its all the coordinators fault, nor is it all the quarterbacks fault; but rather, it is intertwined. When all the receivers are running deeper routes, Alex Smith has no choice but to throw a deeper pass, but when he is given the choice of, for example, 2 short routes, but only 1 deep route, he usually goes with the short route. So I think the reason Smith does so well in the spread shotgun offense, is because most of his options are long routes, and he is sort of forced into making the longer throw.
The other issue is less tangible. Smith looks much better when he has just completed a couple of passes in a row, he gets better and better with each completed throw. This is because he gets into a "rhythm." There is really no concrete way to explain what a "rhythm" is, but it is there; the same concept exists in all sports actually.
For example, a basketball player who is on a shooting hot streak needs to keep shooting to stay in his rhythm. If they don't keep feeding him the ball, he will not be able to maintain his rhythm.
Smith is a rhythm player, who needs to feel the game in a continuous flow. This makes it tougher for Gore to get as many carries as he would like, but I don't think this make Gore any less effective or any less important. Like the author pointed out in the article, Gore's best runs came after a sequence of completed passes which kept the defense on their heels, rather than their toes. When a defensive player is getting ready for a play, he is usually focusing his effort on the run or the pass as primary. He can't focus on both equally. If he tries to focus on both equally, then the offense has an advantage because either the run or the pass will surprise him just the same.
This can get rather complicated to try and explain technically. But the point is, like in any game, such as poker for example, you want to try and create patterns that put FEAR into your opponent. Running or passing X% of the time is not the right way to think about it.
If Alex Smith passing can put FEAR into the opponent from the beginning of a game, then Gore will become MUCH more effective throughout the entire game, but if we wait until the end of the game to unleash Smith, the other team will keep its focus on Gore because he has the reputation and Smith does not.
The most important point by far of course, is to do what WORKS.
wow you haters really have no sense of reality at all. The defense is allowing an average over 20 points per game. Yet the losses are all on Smith. 