Coaches Film Analysis: 2017 Season

Did you notice what he did? His first key was the MLB #44. He saw him sprint to the side and then that alerted him to immediately look for the middle route. Saw that was well covered but since he already has an idea where the LB went to, he knew he could make a throw to the sidelines where only his WR will catch it or it will be incomplete. BUT, a big ass but, is the Jimmy G cheat code because not many QB's can get the ball off that quick while barely looking to see where the WR is and get it there with enough velocity so that the DB cannot jump the route and pick it...and avoid the sack. He possibly could have thrown it in a tight window to 88 but that would have been tough. With your own endzone to your back, probably better to throw it towards the sidelines.

Damn, with the pat of the ball, he still releases it quicker than almost any other QB in the league.

The offensive gameplan Kyle put in place made a lot of sense. He attacked the hook zones, and in the early parts of the game he used a lot of misdirection off playaction. The strength of that JAC defense on the backend are the two CBs, so naturally, staying away from that and attacking the Hook zones is logical. JAC runs a similar defensive scheme to the 49ers - an aggressive attacking front. So a bunch of playaction bootleg/slide plays gave the 49ers some "free" yards - little passes for lots of YAC. Also converted a couple third downs using bootleg concepts (including the play where Goodwin got pulled down and drew a holding call).

I was a bit surprised that JAC stayed with a zone dominant gameplan when Jimmy showed he was carving up the middle of the field. Jimmy was freezing zone defenders to create windows to throw to, and Kyle's play designs were effectively attacking the short/intermediate area of the field. Yet JAC stayed with a lot of zone. I know that's their foundation, but I felt it would have given the 49ers a tougher time had JAC moved to man coverage, and try to clog up the middle of the field, force throws outside the numbers. Jimmy showed patience 'taking what the defense gives', and while he didn't throw for a lot of yards, I thought his completion % is what was most important. Juice and Kittle being the leaders in receiving yards is a telling indicator of how the 49ers wanted to attack JAC.

The 49ers ran the ball on of 17 of 23 times on 1st down. Of the 6 times they passds the ball on 1st down, 2 of those were playaction passes for good gains (Juice +44, Juice +17). The commitment to the run game was very beneficial to the gameplan, and when faced with '3rd & pass it', having a QB that can consistently convert helps a lot in being able to stay with the running game.

Defensively the 49ers did a great job of playing the run and putting Bortles in a position where he had to throw it on 3rd down. Always a team effort but Buckner, Thomas, Foster, and Coyle stood out as big players in limiting Fournette to a 2.6 ypc. Foster diagnoses so well it's uncanny. There's been some discussion about what Saleh was doing differently when JAC moved the ball late in the 1st half and towards the last half of the 4Q. I'll take a closer look at that before I can comment.

I'm always paying attention to his footwork. It's equally amazing as his release, imo. It's perfection. I can't get enough lol

So, to set this up we had just had a missed throw on a WIDE open Bourne on a speedo(or x cross) concept.

So far, JAX tried zone coverage - man coverage with 4 man rush - didn't work. They tried cover 2 zone - didn't work. They then tried a cover 3 zone, wide open guy we just missed him. So, they're searching for something to stop our offense.

They come out and bring pressure this time. Man-coverage with a single safety and 5 man rush.

We're going to run a "spacing" concept. Which is a middle hook, flat route and a spot route. I think Goodwin has an "option" on the spot. Where if it's man-coverage he turns it into an in route. You can see the horizontal stretch created by the spacing concept.



We motion Goodwin inside which reveals the man-coverage. When this happens the QB has to read leverage and identify his mismatch. He keeps his eyes down the middle of the field to make sure they don't drop the guy who showed blitz into a "lurk" position.

Goodwin got inside leverage(which will be given up with the deep inside help)



Goodwin is starting to win on his route, Jimmy just have to give him enough time.



PERRRRfect ball placement for RAC



Look at this ball placement while about to take a hit....my goodness....

Originally posted by thl408:
The offensive gameplan Kyle put in place made a lot of sense. He attacked the hook zones, and in the early parts of the game he used a lot of misdirection off playaction. The strength of that JAC defense on the backend are the two CBs, so naturally, staying away from that and attacking the Hook zones is logical. JAC runs a similar defensive scheme to the 49ers - an aggressive attacking front. So a bunch of playaction bootleg/slide plays gave the 49ers some "free" yards - little passes for lots of YAC. Also converted a couple third downs using bootleg concepts (including the play where Goodwin got pulled down and drew a holding call).

I was a bit surprised that JAC stayed with a zone dominant gameplan when Jimmy showed he was carving up the middle of the field. Jimmy was freezing zone defenders to create windows to throw to, and Kyle's play designs were effectively attacking the short/intermediate area of the field. Yet JAC stayed with a lot of zone. I know that's their foundation, but I felt it would have given the 49ers a tougher time had JAC moved to man coverage, and try to clog up the middle of the field, force throws outside the numbers. Jimmy showed patience 'taking what the defense gives', and while he didn't throw for a lot of yards, I thought his completion % is what was most important. Juice and Kittle being the leaders in receiving yards is a telling indicator of how the 49ers wanted to attack JAC.

The 49ers ran the ball on of 17 of 23 times on 1st down. Of the 6 times they passds the ball on 1st down, 2 of those were playaction passes for good gains (Juice +44, Juice +17). The commitment to the run game was very beneficial to the gameplan, and when faced with '3rd & pass it', having a QB that can consistently convert helps a lot in being able to stay with the running game.

Defensively the 49ers did a great job of playing the run and putting Bortles in a position where he had to throw it on 3rd down. Always a team effort but Buckner, Thomas, Foster, and Coyle stood out as big players in limiting Fournette to a 2.6 ypc. Foster diagnoses so well it's uncanny. There's been some discussion about what Saleh was doing differently when JAC moved the ball late in the 1st half and towards the last half of the 4Q. I'll take a closer look at that before I can comment.

I think 2 of the plays that I showed on the first drive are a big reason. They ran man-coverage twice and couldn't stop Goodwin. He's becoming a really, really good receiver, especially against man-coverage because of his speed.

With Foster, I think that goes back to college against Fournette. He's always had Fournette's number. When LSU played Bama last year they Fournette only had 26 yards rushing.

But yes, there was one play where he was in the backfield for the run so quick it looked like a blitz, but it wasn't, lol.

Making simple concepts work against a good defense requires something extra to pull off. After the big Goodwin catch in post #23, the 49ers bust out the no huddle with 22 personnel (2rb/2te/1wr) - a heavy run package that defenses don't often see. 1st & 10 is a Brieda run for +1. 49ers stay with the no huddle.
Slant-flat vs Cover3


The 49ers must have scouted JAC to know that when JAC sees no huddle, they go to their 'go-to' defense, Cover3. Slant-flat is there for the taking against Cover3 provided the Curl/flat defender is removed, and the Hook defender is removed by the QB's eyes. JG takes the snap and looks to his right. This freezes the orange Hook. Juice's route removes the curl/flat defender.


JG suddenly looks to his left and there is a nice passing lane to A.Robinson, mainly because the Hook defender was frozen by the look off.


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Here's one example of what I was referring to about a QB being able to "red light" routes quickly. We're going to run a stick concept up top with the TE's and a slant/flat concept to the bottom. both are 3 step drop plays so the QB has to move through those progressions quickly. JAX shows cover 3 zone pre-snap, which the stick can defeat depending on how that corner plays it.



At the snap the JAX corner plays the stick concept perfectly without having the streak to clear him out. He plays at an angle to attack both routes. Jimmy looked at this really fast and by his back foot moved to the LB in the middle of the field, he holds him for a split second.



He see's an open window and lets errr fly...



He fits in into the window in time. Hard to do when your the progression is a 3 step drop and you first look to the other side of the field.



Watch how quickly he works this progression and fires it in before the LB.... good grief it's so fun to watch

Originally posted by jonnydel:
I think 2 of the plays that I showed on the first drive are a big reason. They ran man-coverage twice and couldn't stop Goodwin. He's becoming a really, really good receiver, especially against man-coverage because of his speed.

With Foster, I think that goes back to college against Fournette. He's always had Fournette's number. When LSU played Bama last year they Fournette only had 26 yards rushing.

But yes, there was one play where he was in the backfield for the run so quick it looked like a blitz, but it wasn't, lol.

True about those two plays to Goodwin. Still, it took two excellent throws to complete those passes against man coverage. Against zone, JG was methodically slicing and dicing his way downfield. The route that Goodwin ran on that big catch over the middle was very nice. I really like what Goodwin did there in starting and completing his break before Ramsey is within reaching distance. Nothing slows a small WR down more than contact and the small 49er WRs seem to be conscious of this when running their routes.

Originally posted by jonnydel:


Watch how quickly he works this progression and fires it in before the LB.... good grief it's so fun to watch

lol beat you by 1 minute. Yes this was a nice play, even though it was simple. You think he red lighted the Stick concept then went slant-flat. I think he knew he was going slant-flat the whole time and was looking to Sticks as a way of freezing the boundary Hook defender. Both ways sounds right imo, but only Jimmy knows.

Hey did you guys notice a lot of 22 personnel? I was tweeting at Rich Madrid who I think writes for the zone and he said they were in 22 personnel a lot. I tweeted at him saying that this would be a wrinkle for Kyle because he used 22 4% of the time in ATL last year and it's been 1% this year thus far.

As A note, this is another thing that Juice helps with because it lets you run more traditional 3 tight sets out of 22 personnel as he function well as a TE in certain situations.

Originally posted by thl408:
Making simple concepts work against a good defense requires something extra to pull off. After the big Goodwin catch in post #23, the 49ers bust out the no huddle with 22 personnel (2rb/2te/1wr) - a heavy run package that defenses don't often see. 1st & 10 is a Brieda run for +1. 49ers stay with the no huddle.
Slant-flat vs Cover3


The 49ers must have scouted JAC to know that when JAC sees no huddle, they go to their 'go-to' defense, Cover3. Slant-flat is there for the taking against Cover3 provided the Curl/flat defender is removed, and the Hook defender is removed by the QB's eyes. JG takes the snap and looks to his right. This freezes the orange Hook. Juice's route removes the curl/flat defender.


JG suddenly looks to his left and there is a nice passing lane to A.Robinson, mainly because the Hook defender was frozen by the look off.


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We finally got a professional playing qb instead of amateurs

Originally posted by NinerGM:

Originally posted by D0PEMAN:

How he gets that ball out accurately while being hit like that is beyond me. He must be using a cheat code.

And should be a rare exception. I don't look at this with appreciation at all. The team MUST do something about the OL this off-season.

At this point, Beadles is just doing his best to get in the way of DEs and bother them just long enough for JG to get a pass off.

Originally posted by thl408:

Originally posted by jonnydel:

Watch how quickly he works this progression and fires it in before the LB.... good grief it's so fun to watch

lol beat you by 1 minute. Yes this was a nice play, even though it was simple. You think he red lighted the Stick concept then went slant-flat. I think he knew he was going slant-flat the whole time and was looking to Sticks as a way of freezing the boundary Hook defender. Both ways sounds right imo, but only Jimmy knows.

The only reason I felt he red lighted instead of looking off was because the ball doesn't come out tight on the 3rd step, when he hits his backfoot he starts to look back to the left.