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Originally Posted by JohnnyHammersticks
Not sure if it's Nagy, Reid, or a combination of both, but whoever is responsible for not designing plays to get the ball in Rice's hands more often is criminally negligent. Anyone calling plays ever heard of a damn jet sweep?
Use him the way the Niners use Deebo. Give him swing passes that are essentially running plays. Clear out the middle and have him run a short crossing pattern - same play the Niners run for Deebo multiple times a game. Hell, line him up in the backfield. We do it with Toney - who is clearly an inferior player compared to Rice - so I have no idea why in the hell we don't give Rice a chance to take a few handoffs.
The fact that he doesn't touch the ball more often blows my freaking mind, and pisses me off.
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I wouldn't try to mimic the Niners too much unless you want the Chiefs players hurt.
The 49ers system when it has talent in it, obviously works very well but without a doubt it increases the odds that skill position players and even the QB get hurt.
Niners have the strong skill position players but most of them go over the middle and take huge hits in doing so. The QB is susceptible to big hits as well even though he is mobille and has a great left tackle... the rest of the line has normally not been good.
Deebo still gets hurt/banged up from all the big hits and he is built kind of like a tank/running back. Rice isn't skinny but I wouldn't risk too many plays where he can get smashed to smithereens before the playoffs.
In most win games in the playoffs that is a different story.