Originally posted by Godsleftsock:
Originally posted by D_Niner:
Originally posted by stevenking57:
I know a lot of folks feel that by drafting Iupati and Davis in the first round that our offense is going to be Sings dream team of running up between the guards on every play. Unfortunately, last year we tried this and we did lead the NFL in running between the guards. What did we get? Gore ran into a brick wall and was chewed up pretty well for his efforts. I HOPE that this is not true in the future. I hope that Sing allows Raye to operate an offense that’s more creative than last year’s three yards and a cloud of dust. It’s true that with our new front five, Davis, and Walker we may be able to kick some serious butt and “Impose our will,” but wouldn’t it be incredible if we would switch in and out, during a game, from the run down their throat mode to an offense that uses Crabtree, Morgan, Ginn, and Davis in a form of the spread offense? As the coaches have said “Ginn can take the lid off the defense.” IF Raye can be creative in the play calling and formations we run, we have the talent, I think, to play smash mouth football AND have a high caliber passing attack. Although Walsh was/is thought of as a “passing” offensive genius, many don’t realize that except for the 1981 season, all the successful Walsh teams had great running attacks. I hope Sing realizes this and doesn’t try to run an offense that is twenty years in the past. Last year Sing and Raye said they wanted to run the ball 60 percent of the time. If they still have that as a goal for next season, we will be lucky to be 8-8 again.
If Sing tries to run his stated dream offense, this next year could be his last.
Who's going to trow the ball though? I hope Alex improves and it's hard to believe that he wont; but, when your starting QB has more turnovers than TDs, I'm not sure you give him a whole lot of rope that he could use to hang the team. I know he had his best season ever last year and has done enough to be our off-season starter. I'm just not ready to give him more control with the O yet.
Maybe once he increases the TD to Turnover ratio I would be more comfortable with this...
He did have an 18:12 TD to INT ratio last year in 10.5 games. That's a start at least...
I'm really not trying to bash the guy. I'm just keeping it real.
If you look at the pass attempts vs the # of Int's, it shows that Alex isn't ready for us to open it up. I did a small calculation of how many attempts a qb made per each interception. Here's Alex's numbers and other QB's around the same 12 int range (12-15 is where I drew the line).
# of attempts divided by # of ints = X (The higher the number "X" the better)
31 Alex Smith 372/12 = 31
34 Jason Campbell 507/15 = 34
36 Carson Palmer 466/13 = 36
45 Kyle Orton 541/12 = 45
21 Chad Henne 241/12 = 21
42 Joe Flacco 499/12 = 42
36 Eli Manning 509/14 = 36
Please note that I left out some of the NFL's better QB's like:
Ben Rothlesraper 42
Tom Bradey 43
Drew Brees 47
etc...
As you can see, the only guy that was in that 12 int range that did worse was Chad Henne. Now, I've always said that I hope the kid improves; but, lets not put the cart before the horse here. Lets let Alex show us that he's capable of more before we throw the season away by forcing him to do something that could hurt the team...
[ Edited by D_Niner on May 4, 2010 at 12:43:44 ]
