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Originally Posted by papabear
It's just hard to assign where all the responsibilities/blame lay without knowing how Bush wants them to run the play. "Deep Drop" is relative, and we might be in another one of those cases where some meaning is lost on the internet. I don't know if Demeco is supposed to set up 5 yards or 7 yards deep(just pulling random numbers) on that play. So, what I really meant was a "deeper drop". I think ultimately Pollard takes the brunt of the blame, but it's possible that Demeco should have been a few steps deeper and a step or two to one side forcing Smith to make a much more difficult throw than he had. It's also possible that he did exactly what Bush's scheme called for in that case. We're on the same page though.
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That is my point. Demeco may be able to drop deeper depending on what was in front of him and a number of other factors. But Pollard had one responsibility and that was the seam (his quarter). The TD was caught right where he was supposed to be. The right defense was called but improperly executed. And like I said, there is no reason to cheat outside with the 49ers QB and WRs. Their TE might be the fastest player on their offense. They never threatened us deep outside.