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Originally Posted by barrett

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Ryans doesn't need a deep drop in quarters. The safeties are both in the middle of the field so he is playing underneath. He is not responsible for a route down the seem.

It falls %100 on Pollard if they are playing quarters. He cheated toward the sidelines for no reason. SF had no success outside in the passing game and Smith doesn't have the arm to really threaten the boundary anyways. Pollard should have played his coverage and we would have been fine.

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.