One of 49ers’ offense’s greatest imperfections with Jimmy Garoppolo under center is its absence of a downfield passing videogame. If the quarterback has it his method, that’ll modification in what might be his last stint as San Francisco’s beginning signal caller.
Garoppolo on Thursday in a press conference informed pressreporters he had more liberty when he stepped in for the last 5 videogames of 2017, and he’d like to see that return this time around.
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“I’d love that,” Garoppolo stated about pressing the ball down the field. “Yeah, there’s a lot of things that go with that undoubtedly, however yeah, I love doing that things. In ‘17, there was a liberty where me, the receivers, tight ends, we had a excellent chemistry going. And when you get that with offensive abilities and a quarterback, it makes for a difficult offense.”
In that five-game stretch Garoppolo finished 67.4 percent of his tosses and balanced a career-best 308.4 backyards per videogame in his 5 begins. His highest-mark giventhat then was 254 lawns per videogame last season.
According to Pro Football Focus, 9.0 percent of Garoppolo’s tries were deep tosses (20-plus backyards beyond the line of skirmish). He was at 32 percent on medium depth tosses (10-19 lawns beyond the line of skirmish).
In 2019 those numbers dropped to 6.6 percent on deep tosses and 25.8 percent on intermediate tosses. Last year 7.6 percent of his tosses were deep, while his medium depth tosses fell to 24.3 percent.
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