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Originally Posted by Quesadilla Joe
Siemian's #'s compare very favorably to Alex Smith's, and Siemian throws a pretty nice deep ball...
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Smith is a system QB, the system is throw it to the LOS designing plays that allow for YAC. He cannot throw consistently deep, he is afraid to throw it deep, I think with the 10th pick in the draft sitting behind him he may be more willing to chuck it up deep enough to allow reek to abuse his speed and run under it but if you are asking him to throw to a spot over 20 yards downfield multiple times in a game he just can't do it.
Siemian can make all the throws and hit multiple guys in multiple games IN STRIDE for long TD's. I think he had a 60+ TD to Sanders twice vs Cincy, he had great touch on the pass to Fowler vs kc late in the game we should have won, etc,
The issue the last 2 years was terrible OL play, after the RB's went down teams blanketed the WR's and the pass rushers only had to worry about pass rushing. Kubes routes took forever to open up as they were 5 and 7 step routes, he just never had time.
McCoy is going to use more shotgun, I bet it looks like Manning's old O, pieces of Erhardt-Perkins system. It puts a lot on the QB to run it but Trevor is a smart guy. Being in the gun and getting the ball out quick will also help Lynch when he gets a chance to play in the PS.