Originally posted by Shaj:
Originally posted by NineFourNiner:
Originally posted by Shaj:
There is a business corollary here, it's called "the cost of quality". I worked with Fortune 50 company that decide to increase their defects per million because the cost of quality was too high to achieve that level, and they could get more overall return with a defect rate that was still very good, but not as rigorous as before. If Alex could get twice as many touchdowns with twice as many INT's, that would be a great tradeoff that I would likely take. The cost of getting only 5 INT's is a pedestrian offense that requires a devastating ST and D to stay in games.
It is all interconnected. Less ints contribute to better field position, etc......which helps the D and ST stats.
If Smith doubled his TDs and INTs, who is to say that our D performs worse due to more time on the field, teams going no huddle, etc.?
it could work against us, I agree. I love the low INT rate, but I can't help but wonder what would happen if we opened things up a bit. Chances are that a Saints or Packers type offense would have the advantage against even our defense, so the Offense needs to play much differently than it has before in order to compete.
The Saints and Packers passing offense would do well against the 49er defense because of guys like Jimmy Graham, Marques Colston, Greg Jennings and Jordy Nelson, among a couple of others.