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I've seen quite a bit of the 49ers this year honestly......here's what I think when I watch them.
Their defense while being good and having really good front 4 talent has some holes in it. Playing Seattle cover 3 press bail as your scheme kind of opens you up to getting beat because well so many teams run this scheme now it's not something that isn't seen all the time.
The biggest stuff I saw with it is they struggle bad in the secondary with a couple of things. Speed, their secondary isn't very fast and Shermans whole game is vet smarts and playing his 1 spot of the field. If you get vertical with them you take a way a ton of what they're trying to do. The Saints did this really well over and over, especially with Cook early in that game.
Then you factor in what really set the game off for them, Michael Thomas knows how to find holes in the zone. If you have speed+guys that know how to find the zone hole, they literally can not stop it.
Basically their entire defensive game is "This line is going to make you throw the ball fast and we're gonna set in this zone and jump your routes".
Even in the Packers game, the pick Rodgers threw at the end of the 1st half, the CB Mosely is literally squatting between 2 receivers and gets a pick doing it. If you take those chances against Mahomes you are going to give up 70 yard completions, the question is will they back out of playing this way or will they still take those chances?
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