Raye's thoughts on 'spread' and run game

Here are some of Raye's answers to my questions about the state of the 49ers' offense: Q: With the personnel you have and what you spent time in the offseason working on, are you comfortable going with the spread offense and shotgun for large portions of the game? Raye: "No. No. Not at all. We're the same bunch that four weeks ago we were talking about how we're going to play. We haven't changed that. If that was in fact true and we were going to take this deal and become a shotgun, wide-open and throw the ball 48 or 52 times a game, then we'd have to do an awful lot of changing. We can mix that, which we have and intend to do, but as a steady diet . . . I think the confusion is that people are looking at the extremities of what they perceive to be the talent at the extremities and making a judgment that is not founded or grounded at all. And the quarterback has played six quarters today, and people are now starting to refer to his history in that o...