Coaches Film Analysis: 2018 Season

Originally posted by jgarf08:

Even though I am sure Celek was coached to look once he clears the LB, it was still a very smart play by Celek to look exactly at that point and settle down a little with his route. Dumb players will keep running upfield a little further and then look only to make the throw more difficult for the QB and possibly take a big hit upon the catch or run themselves into coverage.

Originally posted by thl408:

Here's the Mostert TD run in the 3Q. The 49ers had run one end around all game, Goodwin got 2 yards. 21 personnel vs base 4-3


Celek lines up wide then motions in and aligns with a very tight split. The SS is aligned with outside shade on Juice.


This is the box before Celek motions in.


This is the box after Celek motions in. The strongside DE widens to cover Celek in this Over front. The blue DE sliding over gives more room to McG who is now clearly uncovered, with the playside to the offense's right. The SAM now joins the box and has contain. MIKE has strongside A gap. Richburg is going to block the SAM on this play. Somehow.


Goodwin begins the fake end around. SS still has outside shade on Juice.


But the SS peeks into the backfield and has now lost outside leverage on Juice. The SAM and WILL also peek into the backfield.


Celek and Juice wall off. McG with no DE near his right side at the snap, easily pulls to lead.


The MIKE is immediately behind the play as his A gap is quickly moving away from him.




Richburg gets to the SAM. Tomlinson crosses the 1t and gets to the MIKE. Two excellent blocks made possible by the fake end around.

Wow! Richburg getting out to the SAM and McG chasing the DB all the way to the end zone. Never could've run that with last year's guys

"The big run by Wilson in OT was just an old fashioned Power."

Do you think we'll see more of that going forward? It should help us against stacked boxes in short yardage and close out situations. How did our guards do on those plays? Garnett could be subbed in if Tomlinson or Person struggle with the power game.

Originally posted by John_Candy:
"The big run by Wilson in OT was just an old fashioned Power."

Do you think we'll see more of that going forward? It should help us against stacked boxes in short yardage and close out situations. How did our guards do on those plays? Garnett could be subbed in if Tomlinson or Person struggle with the power game.

I saw your post about showing some plays from the final drive. I was going in chronological order so I should get to it tonight. When Tomlinson was extended this offseason, my thoughts were that he was still more suited for a gap blocking scheme. He was more known for size and strength than he was movement and agility. But since he was retained, I thought keeping him at LG was perfect for the rare times Kyle dials up the Power play as Laken pulls and leads.
I don't know how often they ran power vs SEA in this game or how they did outside of that nice OT run. I'll do a quick check tonight and answer back.

Thanks thl408, looking forward to it. I've been reading these threads for about a year now. You guys do a great job breaking down the plays, it's the main reason I made an account.

Originally posted by John_Candy:

Thanks thl408, looking forward to it. I've been reading these threads for about a year now. You guys do a great job breaking down the plays, it's the main reason I made an account.

"Hey, check it out...is that John Candy in the stands?!" ~ Joe Montana / Super bowl winning drive

Great name!

Originally posted by NCommand:

Originally posted by John_Candy:

Thanks thl408, looking forward to it. I've been reading these threads for about a year now. You guys do a great job breaking down the plays, it's the main reason I made an account.

"Hey, check it out...is that John Candy in the stands?!" ~ Joe Montana / Super bowl winning drive

Great name!

Niners forum is one place outside of maybe a SpaceBalls forum where everyone sees John Candy and knows exactly what it's about

Originally posted by NCommand:

"Hey, check it out...is that John Candy in the stands?!" ~ Joe Montana / Super bowl winning drive

Great name!

The 49ers ran gap blocking runs 6 times in this game. Breida ran Counter twice. Wilson ran Power 4 times. Four of these gap blocking runs were in OT (Brieda x1, Wilson x3). Interesting to go to that in OT when we know their bread a butter is outside zone.

Here are the two Breida Counter runs. Counter is run to the weakside of the formation. The pulling guard is the kickout block, not leading through the hole. Tomlinson seemed fine kicking out the force defender - both times being the SAM BMingo.
2Q 2:21 +3
OT 6:44 +7

This is the first time the 49ers ran Power 4Q 11:30. Tomlinson is to block the first guy he sees in the hole. Wagner pulls a matador move and makes the stop because he's really good. +3

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Originally posted by thl408:


I'll cut up some plays but may not watch the entire game to try and piece together gameplans or tendencies. If there are any plays you wanted to be reviewed, just post the description.

How he used two TE's this game. I'm wondering if he saw something with Seattle's version of Cover 3 and wonder if we might target a pass catching TE for games like this for next year (given we haven't used Celek in the passing game all year).

That was an awesome play. Nice to see "Celek-Time" again.

I'm not OG enough to have the All-22 yet, but haven't found anything in regards to the gameplan with heavy pers/sets. Seahawks were particularly aggressive in obvious run down/forms, so that could've been the plan, but they didn't deviate from Cov 1 or 3 yet.

Celek TD was out of 22 pers, in a 13 pers form.

Great use of the fly sweep motion with Goodwin (pulls the CB), and quick PA Power fake.


Fake sucks in the LBs, alley doesn't carry the seam so the FS is on an island who is also slightly shaded to Kittle. Mullens gets a 2 on 1 on the FS playing deep middle and easy toss for the completion. FS angle is pretty awful and then Levi's homefield advantage takes us to Celek time.

Nice play

thanks

Those line backers took the bait hook line and sinker. Great analysis of the play.

This is the next time they run Power and it's the big one in OT. We saw this a lot during Harbaugh/Gore days.
Power vs 4-3 Under front


Kittle and McG combo block 99


Laken gets low and in control as he faces Wagner in the hole. Both Kittle and McG go to the second level and leave 99. That's not supposed to happen.


Tomlinson right in Wagner's rib cage. That's not a good look for a box defender. 99 able to reach out. Wilson hitting the hole hard.


Kittle second level block. Wagner gets a slap in the face on Wilson.


+16

The next two runs in OT were both Power plays (+3, +4).
This is the only gap blocking play in the game that they ran to the left side +3. Wagner sheds Person so easily.


There may have been some duo plays I missed, maybe two. One when they were near their own goaline.

Nice to see Laken holding his own.

Originally posted by thl408:
The next two runs in OT were both Power plays (+3, +4).
This is the only gap blocking play in the game that they ran to the left side +3. Wagner sheds Person so easily.


There may have been some duo plays I missed, maybe two. One when they were near their own goaline.

So interesting to see them go to Power late in the game. The only thing I can think scheme wise that would lead them to this is how hard Seattle is squeezing with Oline movement? Seattle was pretty aggressive stepping with the Offensive linemen, that it set up the down blocks for power pretty darn well.

Typically every team will be a mix of ZBS and Gap, but have their favorites, Kyle certainly is predominately zone, more interesting the time and place to pull out Power/Counter.

Only other thing I can think of is something I saw Middlekauf say, that the 49ers were punishing/beating Seattle in the physicality department, maybe it was just a game feel move by the staff that hey we can move/punish these guys.

Great breakdown THL