Week 13 PHI Eagles Coaches Film Analysis

So, there were just too many good plays that just couldn't be left out, so this week is being split into two videos with part 2 coming out tomorrow on the defense.

Appreciate you, jonny!

My day is now complete.

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I haven't watched the video yet because I'm at work, but did you see Oliver at safety for a couple reps? I could have sworn he played some safety vs the Eagles.

Good stuff, my man!

Originally posted by Waterbear:
I haven't watched the video yet because I'm at work, but did you see Oliver at safety for a couple reps? I could have sworn he played some safety vs the Eagles.

He did. I think it was the first 2 drives. Not sure what they were doing there and I haven't seen anything that explained it

Originally posted by Furlow:
Appreciate you, jonny!

This - jonny does excellent work!

Another fun breakdown!

A lot of articles discussing the 49ers offensive gameplan but none describing the defensive plan. I loved how the 49ers often only brought 4 guys who weren't racing for a sack, per se, but were instead keen to clog the lanes, form a pocket and then collapse it. They often had one of Warner or Greenlaw spying. Hurts had all day to throw but couldn't pull the trigger. They did a phenomenal job of keeping Hurts in the pocket and forcing him to be one-dimensional.

The addition of Chase Young is really boosting our defence not unlike the addition of Christian last season. The 49ers are uniquely matched to the Eagles in that they appeared to handle the runs, RPO's, and keeping contain on Hurts with 5-6 guys.

This is going to be better than sex.

At 12:20 you discuss the "rail shot" to CMC on the sideline, and what stands out to me is how hard Jennings ran that "basic/in" route to get the CB to bail. That gave CMC so much extra space to work with. To me that's the one aspect of Deebo's game that is lacking - his clear out routes when he's not getting the ball. Wish he'd run hard like Aiyuk and Jennings do.

Originally posted by Furlow:
At 12:20 you discuss the "rail shot" to CMC on the sideline, and what stands out to me is how hard Jennings ran that "basic/in" route to get the CB to bail. That gave CMC so much extra space to work with. To me that's the one aspect of Deebo's game that is lacking - his clear out routes when he's not getting the ball. Wish he'd run hard like Aiyuk and Jennings do.

me too

Originally posted by jonnydel:

Originally posted by Waterbear:

I haven't watched the video yet because I'm at work, but did you see Oliver at safety for a couple reps? I could have sworn he played some safety vs the Eagles.

He did. I think it was the first 2 drives. Not sure what they were doing there and I haven't seen anything that explained it

Probably testing him out. Not sure how he did, but the fact that they picked up Ryan leads me to believe it didn't go so well.

jd, you mentioned the use of 4x1 formations multiple times but didn't divulge into why the 49ers were doing that. With the rise of split safety coverages, there has also been a rise of 4x1 usage. One critical aspect of using 4x1 is having a dominant '1' which forces defenses (the CB) to either play with a cushion on the 1, or bring a safety over to help. PHI chose to play soft over the 1 and that allowed Aiyuk to get some really easy catches, taking advantage of the large cushion.

Kyle did a great job of exposing the weak offball LBs of PHI. So badly that, after the game, they immediately went out and signed a LB with a gimpy back in desperation. There was a stat put out pregame where PHI defense allowed the least YAC, or least yards after initial contact, something like that. Deebo Kittle Jennings said "F that stat."