The spread offense is Alex Smith's strength.
"dhazer" wrote:
The team should go to the spread offense full-time.
"Rockmolder" wrote:
This isn't college. And like Wade said, having Gore is his main strength. If he can actually stay healthy.
It's nice that Crabtree loves it, but you don't do that when you're a smashmouth team. It's like saying that we should become a running team. Abandon the pass, mostly. Go with a 30% pass, 70% run offense.
"Nonstopdrivel" wrote:
So your saying don't cater to one guy like Crabtree but yet suppose to cater to Gore even though the spread is better for your qb, te and your wrs. The spread offense doesn't mean you pass the ball all the time just means you spread your players out. The Pats run the spread pretty much and have been running the ball. It might actually help Gore.
But they have Alex Smith, not Tom Brady. And they have Crabtree, not Moss. And who's that guy on the other side again? Josh Morgan?
What I'm saying is that you don't play to your strength. You have a great RB, some bruising interior linemen and a good blocking FB in Norris and you want to go into a spread offense all the time?
We saw how the run worked against us, but for some reason, they didn't stick with it. Want to know how often Gore ran the ball? A whopping 7 times. But he did get 59 yards on those carries, breaking off one big one.
They went in a spread offense in the first half and that didn't do them any good when we where still bringing the heath. Especially with Staley being out.
In the second half, when our defense and offense pretty much collapses, they got some points. And a lot of those big throws where with just 2 WRs and a TE lined up at the TE position, just beating his man.
Maybe it'll be the way to go for their offense eventually, but I don't think that it's the answer right now. Regardless of what Crabtree says. He's nothing more than the next TO, it seems. He's just calling this a great offense because it caters to his needs more. Had enough of the kid already, after the whole contract ordeal.