Originally posted by fryet:Originally posted by nyc49erking:
The majority of the 49er fan base has quite a lack of football knowledge. If anyone watched the game, they would understand that QB Smith played the position quite well. Even the so called "bad pass" to Norris, was exactly where it needed to be......but Norris, who is the most un-athletic guy on the team decided to stop his route, like an amateur. The hatred for our QB id FLAT OUT RIDICULOUS. I swear sometimes this fanbase acts like the KKK toward a brotha, in regards to Smith.
So Norris was supposed to cut inside on that play? That is where Smith threw the ball. If he overthrew him towards the sideline, I suspect Norris could have adjusted and caught the ball. But on his back shoulder, he wasn't able to jump and do that. If he had, it would have been a fantastic catch.
Morgan's out of bounds TD I don't blame Smith for as much. It was a difficult throw to make. The one positive I saw in the game was the 80+ yard drive that Smith engineered on the 49er's second possession. And that was with no running game. Let's just hope we see more of those, and fewer of Alex Smith in the second half.
This franchise has run that same play 100 times. Montana, Young, Garcia and others to Rathman, Floyd, Edwards and others.
I have seen other teams run this play too.
Nine times out of ten, it results in a touchdown. The quarterback simply throws the ball to the fullback, like anybody playing catch in their backyard would.
Not once, in all the football I have ever watched. Whether it is college, high schools, or the NFL, have I ever seen a quarterback lob the ball over the head of a wide open full back.
Sometimes the fullback drops the pass, no doubt. It happens. Sometimes the throw is not perfect, and it is thrown at the fullback's legs or above his shoulders. Sometimes the quarterback or fullback slips as they are running.
But I have never seen a quarterback LOB a pass over a fullbacks head like that. That was something cooked up in the kitchen of "Alex Smith land".
Its like a clinical psychological condition at this point. He simply out thinks himself, and turns the routine, into the difficult.
Smith played decent last year and Nate was good in the preseason LAST year, but now that it's taking extra time for our 90 year old OC to get the plays down our QBs both look like s**t? 