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Has the offense been conservative? Probably, yes. Would it be more successful aggressive? I would guess, probably no -- although I suppose it might make people happier to have a quarterback who can't throw accurately aggressively miss a pass to a wide receiver who aggressively doesn't make the catch. Aggression!

I think there is a little bit of a definitional problem here.  In this context, I don't think the opposite of "conservative" is "aggressive."  I think the opposite of "conservative" is "creative," and, in fact, I think that, on a few occasions, some of the play-calling even this year proves that.  I just wish there had been a few MORE such occasions.  My recollection is that hardly a game went by with Harbaugh [even late in the season] where there weren't 2 or 3 plays that had people saying, "Huh?  We've never done THAT before...!"  It's halfway thru the season this year and, at least to me, that thought has only come up 2 or 3 times in total.  Of course, we've had so many 3-and-outs that there haven't been as many opportunities to get creative, but that's sort of a chicken-and-egg problem in itself. 

On the bright side, Zychlinski's turned out to be a pretty good punter, so we've got that going for us.  [And, no, kicking on third down isn't the kind of creativity I'm looking for...]

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Has the offense been conservative? Probably, yes. Would it be more successful aggressive? I would guess, probably no -- although I suppose it might make people happier to have a quarterback who can't throw accurately aggressively miss a pass to a wide receiver who aggressively doesn't make the catch. Aggression!

I think there is a little bit of a definitional problem here.  In this context, I don't think the opposite of "conservative" is "aggressive."  I think the opposite of "conservative" is "creative," and, in fact, I think that, on a few occasions, some of the play-calling even this year proves that.  I just wish there had been a few MORE such occasions.  My recollection is that hardly a game went by with Harbaugh [even late in the season] where there weren't 2 or 3 plays that had people saying, "Huh?  We've never done THAT before...!"  It's halfway thru the season this year and, at least to me, that thought has only come up 2 or 3 times in total.  Of course, we've had so many 3-and-outs that there haven't been as many opportunities to get creative, but that's sort of a chicken-and-egg problem in itself. 

On the bright side, Zychlinski's turned out to be a pretty good punter, so we've got that going for us.  [And, no, kicking on third down isn't the kind of creativity I'm looking for...]