Coaches Film Analysis: 2019 Season

Originally posted by jonnydel:
Got the first in the review of the offense in. This covers a chunk of plays starting right after the throwback screen through the 2nd TD of the game to Ross Dwelley. Will cover the INT's, the 3rd TD and other chunk plays in the next video before moving on to the defense.

Really good breakdown of the play at 5:50 (first play of 2nd half) and the presnap audible by the offense and defense. I feel ARI got the 49ers here on the playcall but it was pass protection that allowed the play to be successful. As the 49ers checked to a man coverage busting play and ARI went zone, this play isn't supposed to work unless there's a vertical stretch with the drag routes and Deebo's snag over the middle, but there isn't because ARI's weakside Hook defender takes it away.

Drag routes aren't supposed to work versus zone, but when Deebo took the weakside curl/flat defender (orange) towards the middle of the field, it freed up more room for Coleman to the boundary side. But it's still a very long developing route because Coleman has to come all the way across the field. The combination of Deebo taking the c/f defender and the good pass protection allowed Jimmy to target Coleman's drag.

Jonny can you read me bedtime stories? Your voice is very relaxing lol

Originally posted by Waterbear:
Jonny can you read me bedtime stories? Your voice is very relaxing lol

lol. There's been a number of weekly 49er film analysis channels on youtube popping up and they all suck compared to jonnyd's. Every one of those other channels "breakdown" a play like, "here's Jimmy throwing the ball. The throw is so nice because Jimmy threw the ball very nicely. Look at how nice that nicely thrown ball is thrown." Nothing about the playcall or how the route combination affects the coverage. Whether it's supposed to work or not work. You rock jd and your videos are getting better produced every week. Now you predraw the WR routes to keep the video flowing smoothly.

jd, any thoughts on why ARI opened the game with nearly all man coverage, then in the 2nd half went predominantly zone? Did ARI out think themselves? "If we keep playing man, Kyle will make adjustments and beat us. Better change things up"

Originally posted by thl408:

Originally posted by Waterbear:

Jonny can you read me bedtime stories? Your voice is very relaxing lol

lol. There's been a number of weekly 49er film analysis channels on youtube popping up and they all suck compared to jonnyd's. Every one of those other channels "breakdown" a play like, "here's Jimmy throwing the ball. The throw is so nice because Jimmy threw the ball very nicely. Look at how nice that nicely thrown ball is thrown." Nothing about the playcall or how the route combination affects the coverage. Whether it's supposed to work or not work. You rock jd and your videos are getting better produced every week. Now you predraw the WR routes to keep the video flowing smoothly.

Totally agree!

JD

Originally posted by jonnydel:
One thing I'm excited for and will be absolutely pivotal vs the Packers will be the return of George Kittle.
If we get Kittle back and the emergence of Ross Dwelley, we have so many options to keep GB in base, which keeps their OLB's from being subbed in as DE's and not having to drop back into coverage.

We have the potential to come out with Kittle, Juice, Coleman/Breida/Mostert, Sanders and Samuel - all great receiving options and the defense is in base
Kittle, Dwelley, Juice, Coleman/breida/mostert Sanders/Samuel - still good receiving options across the board and the defense is still in base
Kittle, Dwelley, Colmane/Breida/mostert, Sanders, Samuel - same as above

Also, you can run every single running play in our playbook out of these packages.

true, but don't count on breida to play. i think we stash him another week at least.

Originally posted by thl408:

jd, any thoughts on why ARI opened the game with nearly all man coverage, then in the 2nd half went predominantly zone? Did ARI out think themselves? "If we keep playing man, Kyle will make adjustments and beat us. Better change things up"

I think it was because the screens and PA were gashing them. We'd either run receivers out of the screen side of the field or vertical and stress their LB's and S's while they were biting on anything that looked like a run

Most of these bad executed run plays breakdown confirmed what I saw on that day about our run game. If that was Kittle blocking instead of Celek or Dwelley, the RB would've exploded for a huge gain. We need Kittle to get healthy so we can run down everyone's throats, take their souls and be dominant again.

Originally posted by SkyZer0:

true, but don't count on breida to play. i think we stash him another week at least.

We still should be good if that's the case. Wilson deserves more playing time after that TD catch he made. He's a redzone machine.

Originally posted by jonnydel:

Originally posted by thl408:
jd, any thoughts on why ARI opened the game with nearly all man coverage, then in the 2nd half went predominantly zone? Did ARI out think themselves? "If we keep playing man, Kyle will make adjustments and beat us. Better change things up"

I think it was because the screens and PA were gashing them. We'd either run receivers out of the screen side of the field or vertical and stress their LB's and S's while they were biting on anything that looked like a run

I dunno about that.. There was one screen pass thrown in the first half, that 50+ yarder to RJames in the first half and that wasn't a conventional screen play. Unless I'm missing some screen pass plays that were successful (in the 1st half) that got ARI out of playing man? The 49er offense didn't do jack until that 50+ yarder to James. No screen passes in the first half after that.
At the start of the 2nd half, ARI came out playing zone all the way down the field, then Juice got a nice screen pass once they got in the red zone. So I don't think screen passes got ARI away from man. They just decided to start playing zone coming out of the halftime break.

Originally posted by Giedi:

Originally posted by thl408:
#6
I'ts now the 2Q. 49ers now use 11 (3WR) personnel to run the ball, the first time this game. Outside zone left vs ARI's nickel.


Skule won't be able to reach the wide 9 DE but he can still push him outwards to widen interior gaps. Nevermind, Richburg got tossed aside.


Skule/Richburg lose on their blocks. No gain. At this point in the game, the 49ers are down 16-7. In their previous drive they scored a TD using five straight passes. They move away from the run for the rest of the game.


The plays shown illustrate that the run game did not struggle because of any one player. Everyone doesn't have to win their run block, they can stalemate, but they cannot outright lose. Sometimes it was a bad play from the 49er, sometimes it was a good play from the defender. What the 49ers did not do much this game was use presnep jet/orbit motion to help create better angles or generate misdirection. I guess that just wasn't in the gameplan for this week.

I seem to remember the 49ers hard counting late in the first half or early in the second half. I think. But basically by hard counting, Jimmy was able to pull the DLinemen into a neutral zone encroachment penalty several times. I think this play above illustrates the AZ DLinemen really keying on and trying to anticipate the snap count and really trying to gap-penetrate and screw up that OZ run blocking scheme. In other words, I don't think Richburg was overpowered, but rather that the AZ dlinemen were really doing their best to anticipate and time the snap count to beat the OLinemen to their blocking spot.

Also, if you notice in the endzone view one of the LB's (the left one) steps to the playside right before the snap, almost anticipating the play side direction. I thought that was interesting, as though they may have had some tells's that indicated where the play was going to go.

Seattle said they were able to pick up on some of our calls and pretty much knew where the ball was going.

Originally posted by Waterbear:

Jonny can you read me bedtime stories? Your voice is very relaxing lol

I have said, he's the Fred Rogers of NFL films

My 5yrs old startled easy when I inadvertently raised my voice. I wonder if jonny talks to youths often. Like in front of a class or something. It would explain his even tone

Originally posted by thl408:

Originally posted by jonnydel:

Originally posted by thl408:
jd, any thoughts on why ARI opened the game with nearly all man coverage, then in the 2nd half went predominantly zone? Did ARI out think themselves? "If we keep playing man, Kyle will make adjustments and beat us. Better change things up"

I think it was because the screens and PA were gashing them. We'd either run receivers out of the screen side of the field or vertical and stress their LB's and S's while they were biting on anything that looked like a run

I dunno about that.. There was one screen pass thrown in the first half, that 50+ yarder to RJames in the first half and that wasn't a conventional screen play. Unless I'm missing some screen pass plays that were successful (in the 1st half) that got ARI out of playing man? The 49er offense didn't do jack until that 50+ yarder to James. No screen passes in the first half after that.
At the start of the 2nd half, ARI came out playing zone all the way down the field, then Juice got a nice screen pass once they got in the red zone. So I don't think screen passes got ARI away from man. They just decided to start playing zone coming out of the halftime break.

well, that one screen pass play did wreck their defense for a huge gain. Maybe they felt that it became a liability if they were too predictable? Maybe it was in the gameplan to show one thing in one half and another in the 2nd half to anticipate Kyle making an adjustment?

We did gash them several times vs man coverage right before the half too. Two big completions to Samuel and Sanders that I showed in the last video.

They may have also wanted more flexibility in disguise of blitzes. They ran a lot of fire zones with different personnel in the 2nd half.

Originally posted by Waterbear:
Jonny can you read me bedtime stories? Your voice is very relaxing lol

You get one story for the rest of the year, I'll read it around February. It'll be called, "A funny thing happened on the way to the 6th trophy"

Originally posted by SkyZer0:
post your videos to twitter.

I'm just curious, I've been trying to do some stuff on twitter but have found the fruit to not be there too much. What's the big value for me in doing this? Not meaning this in a mean way, truly curious. I've posted videos before and I get barely any traffic off of it. Like, less than 50 views.