Thought you were talking about 25+ yard passes? Both 92 & 93 passes to Alvin Harper were like 15 yards. Harper ran the rest.
All that matters is you can create pass plays that go for big yardage. I don't care how far in the air the ball travels. Ideally you want a ball 15-20 yards in the air with the WR thrown open into a running lane.
In any case, if you didn't care about what happened to this offense 10 weeks ago, why would you care about a play that happened 20 years ago?
Because that play was what it took to break the 49ers and get us to the Superbowl. They were stuffing our 4 minute offense. Great offenses, and that's what our team was built to become, can beat you in the air or on the ground quickly or methodically.
Our averages over over the first 10 weeks of football are irrelevant to predicting our ability to make big plays down the stretch-- especially when the passing game has struggled in December.
Just as easily, I can bring up The Emmitt drive in 93 SB. Are you upset that we chose to run the league's leading rusher 7/8 plays on that game-sealing drive?
We know this capability is in our arsenal.
You're against the 13-play, 80-yard drive.
?? No one is totally against these, they just shouldn't be our goal every drive. At some point you are keeping the ball away from yourself, too. The more time you burn on a drive, the less time you yourself have in future drives to score.
Then Zeke was a wasted pick as Morris/McFadden are good enough and we should've traded down and drafted another WR. Cuz this 25+ yard offense can't succeed on a diet of throws to Brice Butler and Terrance Williams.
Butler and Beasley are good enough role players to support our high round talent in Bryant and Williams. We know they can catch deep passes in big games and in the playoffs. We've seen it.
If you have deep shots in your arsenal, it becomes harder to go 8-in the box on Zeke. If the biggest play you've got goes 23 yards, why would any defense back out of the box?