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Originally Posted by DTLB58
What? Hasn't the knock on Smith always been his deep ball?
Rypien's games was the deep ball the year they won the SB.
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My knock on Alex is that he is too cautious, is too risk averse. That is a far bigger issue than no deep ball.
Alex CAN throw deep passes and has done so. I am sure you've seen them. He is just unwilling to throw deep passes. He craves the sure thing. He hates failure and every incompletion is a failure. So he craves his check downs and short passes.
Fortunately he is a master of the short passing game. Fortunately, Andy Reid likes that. Fortunately Jamaal Charles can break big runs when Alex passes to him behind the line of scrimmage.
It is Alex's cautiousness that is my knock on him, not his deep pass. He would rather take the sure sack than risk a bad play. He would rather hit the open receiver behind the line of scrimmage, than the half-open wide receiver 30 yards downfield.
He manages the game and brilliantly. He is very smart. But you don't usually see the killer instinct you see dwelling in the champions. The ones who would rather hacksaw their cars in half than lose.
I will take Kaepernick's killer instinct any day over Alex's caution.