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Originally Posted by O.city
Alex's Smiths mobility was about the only thing that kept him alive this year.
Matt Ryan, behind our OL, woudln't have survived.
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Alex Smiths mobility and unwillingness to buy time to make big throws (instead choosing to tuck n run quickly) is what made DCs blitz him more and more and caused a lot of those problems.
Can't blitz guys that make you pay by hitting you deep.
Nobody respected our ability to throw deep, so they blitzed safeties and corners on us constantly.
That made the job of the OL harder and harder as the year wore on.
It exposed a weakness that might gave been hidden better if a alex "took what the defense gave him" which a lot of the time was the deep ball.