The Air Raid Killer Defense: Why I think we're trying out so many safeties... | Page 5

Sep 5, 2020 at 8:42 AM

RasSuar
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Originally posted by steiber:
Wow, there are a lot of great ideas people are coming up with. One idea I havent seen is putting the LB's a couple yards deeper to help fill in more of the zones behind them. If the Dline slows down a bit to focus on containment rather than rushing and dropping the LBers into the zones, it can cause many issues. The 49ers would give up more rush yards, but if AZ wants to throw, they will have to stay patient and run which they don't seem disciplined enough to do.

I just don't know if you want to concede rushing yards to sell out in stopping Arizona's passing attack yet though. To me their offense blew up when Drake paired with Kyler to make their inside-outside zone rushing attack all the more dangerous. Stopping this should be the #1 priority IMHO until Murray proves he can carry that offense with his arm.

Sep 5, 2020 at 8:58 AM

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Originally posted by thl408:
Seems so backwards but he's an atypical QB.

Yeah, it is very counter-intuitive.

I just checked out the majority of Drake's runs in both games against the 49ers and I'm impressed by the variety of runs ARI had. They found their success on inside zone, draws, and traps and they did it with spread as well as condensed formations. This supports the argument to use a Tite front to shore up the run defense up the middle, spill runs to the outside. The easy answer is for Kwon and Warner to be better at stepping up to clog up run lanes. Easier said than done when the defensive front is naturally spread horizontally due to the wide9. Again, I'm not arguing that what you suggest won't work, just that it is very different than what the 49ers did in 2019 from a schematic perspective.

I too was surprised myself going back to the video looking at the variety of Kenyon's runs against our front in the two games we played Arizona last season. His ability to bounce the ball outside and cut back inside and vice-versa was so key in allowing Kingsbury to turn the strength of our defense into a weakness on a variety of run plays.

All this talk about defensive gameplan to stop ARI has me hyped for week 1. Then throw in Hopkins and it's going to be a nice chessmatch between Saleh and Kingsbury.

Word on this. To me, the one thing we MUST contain are those zone read RPOs. They gashed us up and down the field on them.

[ Edited by RasSuar on Sep 5, 2020 at 12:55 PM ]

Sep 6, 2020 at 11:20 AM

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Lynch said the 49ers have 7 linebackers they really like — hence 6 on the 53 including Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles, plus Joe Walker, who had a steeper learning curve coming over from Arizona's different system, on the practice squad
— David Lombardi (@LombardiHimself) September 6, 2020

I could be reading into this wrongly, but it seems like some scheme changes are being made with all of the LB/S types we're loading the roster with.

Sep 14, 2020 at 7:20 AM

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After watching yesterday's game I think we might as well mix the ISU 3-3-3 defense with our 4-2-5 nickle packages if Ford is going to be useless and our pass rush is going to be missing by the fourth quarter due to exhaustion. Both can at least rest that extra DL or LB we'll need out there.