All22 Analysis - Coverages & Concepts

Originally posted by Niners816:


1989 - "X Slant"

Gorgeous. I still remember that game!

Originally posted by Niners816:


1989 - "Dover"
This play art is pretty much spot on with the Gif.

It's so crazy how much respect that DB gave Rice, then he got burned anyway.

1981 - "Sprint Right Option"
It's not the one you think. The first TD of the Title game was also on sprint option, only it went to the flat receiver.

This is golden watching these old plays. Great work.

Originally posted by facestabber:

This is golden watching these old plays. Great work.

I love watching these old games and trying to find the play in the actual playbook. It's just awesome seeing in a broadcast and then seeing the nuts and bolts behind it.

1993 - "Speedo"

This play art is spot on to the gif....we all now could've called this play in the huddle Check out how well the niners ran the routes....rathman called for 3-5 yards in depth and Jerry called for 18-20 yards in depth. So basically they wanted 15-17 yards between routes. Rathman is at like the 23ish and Rice is at like the 39-40..so you have that 16-17 yard difference.

1992 - "Keeper/FB Flat"

1992 - "Double Square Out"

Originally posted by Niners816:


1989 - "Dover"
This play art is pretty much spot on with the Gif.

almost looks like the Pin concept

Originally posted by defenderDX:

almost looks like the Pin concept

It is a pin concept from the outside guys. The inner most guys look like a mesh concept. Kinda seem like the QB might have a choice based on presnap reads.

It's just a beautifully designed play. Encompasses two really good concepts.

Joe on the money doe. The timing and accuracy is ridiculous. Notice Rice got it inside the hash marks. Sometimes other qb waited too long or didn't see it timely ...ahem ... Kaep. Like VD didn't get the ball until he's well into the numbers, encroaching on the safety on the other side.

It's simple when done right. The qb stays inside the hashes, throws down the middle in between the hashes. Not like Joe had a perfect pocket either. There's a guys coming around from behind. A lesser qb gets spooked, and this play doesn't get connected.

Originally posted by qnnhan7:

Joe on the money doe. The timing and accuracy is ridiculous. Notice Rice got it inside the hash marks. Sometimes other qb waited too long or didn't see it timely ...ahem ... Kaep. Like VD didn't get the ball until he's well into the numbers, encroaching on the safety on the other side.

It's simple when done right. The qb stays inside the hashes, throws down the middle in between the hashes. Not like Joe had a perfect pocket either. There's a guys coming around from behind. A lesser qb gets spooked, and this play doesn't get connected.

That philly defense was nuts too. For 1989, they had 30 Ints and held QBs to a 48% comp. On this day, joe was over 70% and 400 yards.

Originally posted by Niners816:

Originally posted by defenderDX:
almost looks like the Pin concept

It is a pin concept from the outside guys. The inner most guys look like a mesh concept. Kinda seem like the QB might have a choice based on presnap reads.

It's just a beautifully designed play. Encompasses two really good concepts.

In that play, PHI came with cover0 so it was an easy read for Montana. Rice on the Post with no safety help in the middle of the field - taking candy from a baby.

I've seen the term "Pin" also used to describe the "Mills" concept. They both have the same route combinations (Post + In), but I wanted a way to refer to it when the routes are from the same side of the formation (Mills) versus when they are on different sides of the formation (Pin). It's all semantics, but I always see Mills as both routes on the same side of the formation.

Mills vs Quarters
When the safety sees the In route break in front of him he gets put in a bind (vertical stretch), comes up to help the In, leaves his CB out to dry on the Post.


Pin works well on a cover1 safety when both routes come at him from opposite sides. The example I showed on page 3 looks very much like the defense Montana saw in the .gif that 816 posted - no safety in the middle.

I found some play art with the progressions labeled. In this case it's labeled up to 5. It takes a joe or Steve to get through 5. We've seen joe do it vs Denver in SB24.

1998 - "All Go"

All verts concept. TO managed to hang on to this one, saving a very tough game for him. Outstanding catch with a crushing hit at the end. Play art taken from the 1999 holmgren playbook (oh, the irony )