Minnesota Vikings, week 1 coaches film analysis

Wilhoites play stood out to me as well. I wasn't very impressed by his play last year and was expecting him to be a weak spot in our defense but he pleasantly surprised me by playing fast, sound football. Looked really good out their next to Bow.

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I want to see breakdowns of all of Kap's overthrows. not really the one to Vance where he tried to protect him with the throw from the safety but all others

Great breakdown jonnydel. Agree with Ian Williams looking good and Staley showing again why he is the all everything Left Tackle. I wanted to focus on scheme/concepts that the offense/defense used as the 49ers welcome two new coordinators. So my breakdowns will be a bit disjointed and not chronological as far as plays as it happened. I usually like to go through plays as in order to piece together the game, but doing that will force me to hop around from theme to theme. Instead, I will focus on the passing game, then running game, then defense.

I can see why the coaches put Staley and Boone on the same side of the OL. It's to establish the run play that is the springboard for a lot of what the 49ers wanted to do, at least in this game. That run play is 'outside zone left' aka stretch left. Once that run play is established, it allowed the 49ers to ridiculously abuse Flood concepts and 3 level High-Low reads off playaction to the right side of the formation. So many quick passes to the TE/RB/WR off playaction. Misdirection was the theme once that stretch left run instilled fear into MIN's defense.

MIN came with a steady dose of Cover3 and Quarters while sprinkling in Cover1 and Fire Zone blitzes. Please use this thread to familiarize yourself with these terms, coverages, and concepts.
http://www.49erswebzone.com/forum/niners/182144-all22-analysis-coverages-amp-concepts/


Breakdown of the passing game to follow.

Originally posted by thl408:

I can see why the coaches put Staley and Boone on the same side of the OL. It's to establish the run play that is the springboard for a lot of what the 49ers wanted to do, at least in this game. That run play is 'outside zone left' aka stretch left. Once that run play is established, it allowed the 49ers to ridiculously abuse Flood concepts and 3 level High-Low reads off playaction to the right side of the formation. So many quick passes to the TE/RB/WR off playaction. Misdirection was the theme once that stretch left run instilled fear into MIN's defense.

Good stuff. It's awesome because for the longest time people were questioning the coaching staff as to why Boone wasn't moved to RT. In hindsight, it makes all the sense in the world to have him at LG. Now that we run the stretch-zone with the strength of the line on the left side, that play-action rolling right is highly efficient.

I'll touch on these later, but the first two plays from scrimmage for the 49ers were both Outside Zone Left (aka Stretch Left). The two plays varied a bit, the second run having a split zone action, but looked to achieve the same purpose - establish the run to the left side of the formation. The two plays went for +8, then +9 gains by Hyde. Two very impressive runs.

The very next play (3rd play of the game).
1st & 10
vs Cover 1 blitz

3 level flood. I can't tell who orange is, it's either Vance or Celek. Hate how I can't tell jersey numbers on these black unis.


Playaction, faking the outside zone left run. This gets the defense flowing to their (defense's) right. Boldin pushes his man downfield.


Torrey comes across the formation. You see the three level of routes to give Kap a High-Low progression.


+11 to Torrey - the intermediate route on a 3 level flood concept.

Originally posted by defenderDX:

I want to see breakdowns of all of Kap's overthrows. not really the one to Vance where he tried to protect him with the throw from the safety but all others

That was to celek

Carlos Hyde is a beast,im just worried what can the 49ers offense do when Hyde has one of those games where he gets shut down similar to how AP got 31 yards last night,its surely not possible to get 100+ yards every game unless he's the greatest ever or he's actually Batman,i assume every RB will have the odd game where the defense shuts them down,im sure even Frank Gore had some 30 yard games,there only human after all.

There were several throws CK made when he had the option to run. Instead he kept his eyes downfield and found open receivers. I'm thinking of the throw when he cycled through 4 reads and moved right up to the LOS and found a downfield target. It shows that CK has developed a new wrinkle in his game. Any chance you could break down that play?

Not shown: On Kap's second dropback of the game, there was a defensive holding call drawn by Boldin. There was a Curl-Flat concept versus Cover3.

Next play of the game, next dropback for Kap.
1st & 10
It's the same route combination as the completion to Torrey above! This time 49ers are using 13 personnel (1rb/3te/1wr)


Playaction on the stretch left run...


Rollout right, three level read.


+15 to Celek, the intermediate route.

Question. The false start we got... when the line was setup on both sides and martin just grabbed the ball and instantly snapped it. Like it was planned. I didn't understand that there was a rule that can stop that. I thought the offense can snap when ever they please

I'm very glad playaction came back. Was so tired of those empty backfield sets and finesse pass plays drawn up last year. We're back to our bread n butter - scary run game and playaction.

A holding call on Martin makes this 1st & 20

Can't tell what the 49ers are trying to do here. My guess is this is a Cover1 beater since there are two Corner routes dialed up. If this was Cover1, the two Corner routes would look to break away from the Cover 1 safety. I can't tell who is who, but this is 11 personnel.
Versus Cover3


Kap takes the snap and looks to his right, no one is open.


Kap looks to his left, no one is open.


Exhausting the play. This is what Steve Young said that Kap needed to do, and something Steve needed to learn to do in order to become a pocket passer. Make sure all options are done before "checking down" to use the legs.


+8 yard scramble

Sorry if the black and white video is annoying. I figure this thread is going to get very GIF intensive and some of us are on our phones. The black and white makes the file size smaller. Not going for style points and I think it gets the point of the video across, to see all 22 players.