Coaches Film Analysis: 2017 Season

so, to give the defenders some love.



This is a play that should look really familiar from the Harbaugh days. Jon gruden calls this "96 power". I high school when I played RB we called it "26 power". Same thing, just a different number for the back. It's a power play through the "6" hole(outside the RT). You get down blocks away from the play with a backside guard pulling and leading through the hole. The FB has a kickout block on the first guy he sees and the guard is responsible for sealing the first LB that shows in the hole.



I also played LB and the one thing I was good at was this, filling the hole quickly. As a LB you have to be able to read the lineman in front of you and fill the hole aggressively against a power run. When you see that guard fire out with a low hat and z down, you have to realize there's going to be either a blocker or RB coming through that hole really soon. Your job is to fill that hole immediately. Foster's reaction is really fast.



props to Reid here on taking on the FB. That guy has probably 20 lbs or more on him and he stands him up. The only thing different I'd like to see is in the next frame. I'd like to see Foster take on that block with his inside shoulder to force any possible cuts back inside to his helper, Coyle. Willis was great at this and gave Bow a ton of tackles this way.



But when you can take out the guard and tackle the RB for a 1 yard loss, hard to argue with that....

Our longest pass of the day was to a FB. Haven't seen that since Harbaugh



JAX was committed to stopping the run - as most defenses are. They want to force you into 2nd and long, 3rd and long etc. So, they get aggressive on 1st down against the run. One way to combat this is with hard play action and big plays. We run a lot of split zone runs and get some of our biggest runs off of them. Here, we're going to show a split zone run and then look to hit the deep ball. I forgot to draw the hook on Goody's route.

JAX is going to blitz off the strong side and play a fire zone behind it.



The hard run action with the TE coming across the formation sells the run and grabs the underneath coverage.



With Goodwin's speed his route draws the attention of both the FS and corner, this leaves Juice 1v1 against the MIKE backer with a head start.



Jimmy did a good job of first looking off the safety and then throwing a perfect dime to juice.



That's a perfect dime right in the bucket with the ball traveling about 40 yards in the air - I'm not worried about Jimmy's deep ball....



That's bringing back shades of Wrathman.....

Originally posted by thl408:

Great Analysis, and great GIF's. I can't thank you guys enough!

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:
I was a little worried when the 49ers unleashed one of the most destuctive forces the world has ever seen.

Garbage Time Blake Bortles.

Dude's QB rating when Jacksonville is losing by 20 or more was like 140 at one point.

I'm stealing this joke...

Originally posted by genus49:
I'm stealing this joke...

People joke about it but when its the 4th quarter and Jacksonville is down 20+, he tends to morph into Aaron Rodgers.

1. This is a three play sequence leading up to the INT. Similar to SEA and the 49ers, JAC also will play some Cover2 when near/in the red zone. The 49ers know this and will dial up a series of Corners routes to hit for a TD.
Vertical stretch of the flat defender, trying to hit the yellow Corner route in the honeyhole (area behind the flat defender, to the side of the Cover2 safety)


JAC is in some sort of 3 deep shell (maybe soft man). But they aren't playing Cover2, and Paulsen's Corner route is defeated.


+4. JG takes the low read to Juice.

2. To continue the play sequence, after a Hyde running play, this is the next play. 49ers again dial up a vertical stretch along the sideline with Kittle/Bourne.


vs Tampa2, this is the look the 49ers wanted. The red flat defender squats on Kittle and Bourne is about to break to the corner. If JG pulls the trigger now, there's a good chance at a TD. He's looking right at Bourne, starts to windup, then pulls it back down.


JG rolls right and makes an very nice throw on the move to hit Taylor and convert the 3rd down. Taylor never broke stride because it was so well placed. But the point of this play is to show the 49ers trying again to hit that Corner route.

Originally posted by jonnydel:


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

From the live game view I thought that LB had a chance to INT it, but from this view Jimmy G gave him no chance at it.

3. After a Hyde run, then an incompletion on a Taylor slant, this is the next play. 49ers again dial up the same vertical stretch along the sideline hoping JAC is in Cover2. It just comes out of a different formation.
vs Tampa2


In this pic, JG is mid windup. The red flat defender is backing off Hyde because he's seen this same concept a couple times already.


The ball is directly behind the goal post, so it's impossible to see, but #91 definitely gets his hand on the ball as the ball flutters out of JG's hand and is INT'ed.


49ers tried multiple times to get it right. When JG finally thought he had a window to that Corner route, his arm is hit as he throws.

I think it was obvious JG was going to the slant here before the snap and wanted to look the LB to the right so it would give him that window.



On the one below, think he missed Goodwin for a possible TD. Wonder why he went with the flat after the LB sprinted in that direction from the snap and cleared out a big gap in the middle. Me thinks it is more evidence that he already has his targets predetermined. He knows his defenses due to his time in the league.

On that slant to Bourne that was nearly a pick-6, Jimmy got it into the window, but can you break it down to show whether he "should" have made that thrown (or gone elsewhere)

Originally posted by Niners816:
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.

On the first drive I did, but didn't notice it throughout the game (not saying it didn't happen, just that I didn't notice). 49ers did seem to be deliberate about keeping JAC in their base personnel. Juice got 56% of the offensive snaps, his highest this season. My guess is the 49ers wanted to have the threat of the run so that the JAC front 4 can't pin their ears back on the pass rush.

Originally posted by OptionZero:
On that slant to Bourne that was nearly a pick-6, Jimmy got it into the window, but can you break it down to show whether he "should" have made that thrown (or gone elsewhere)

prolly not til tomorrow, sorry

Seemed like there are 2 open guys on every passing play of Kyle

Originally posted by qnnhan7:
Seemed like there are 2 open guys on every passing play of Kyle

Yup. He really knows how to spread a defense thin. On top of that, with JG's throwing ability, defenses are on skates try to immediately react to anywhere he is looking because they know that ball can get to the receiver in half a step.