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Originally Posted by DRM08
This is a strange response to my post. Did you quote the wrong person? I was talking about the KC defense and only said they earned their reputation as a bad defense the last couple seasons. Your rant has nothing to do with what I wrote.
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Only the first sentence was aimed at your post. The storylines don't really match the game tape is my point. The chiefs earned their bad-run defense reputation...
The 49ers have aren't some team that sucks when you force them to pass. Every team tried that in the regular season and it kinda worked against the Rams but didn't work at all against us when Kittle was on the field.
On film, Minnesota and GreenBay clearly sold out against the pass (particularly the play action pass and RPO pass) so Kyle ran it down throats. I actually think it's a better strategy to try to stop our passing game than our run game but GB and MN couldn't score against our D.
Selling out against the run means you're going to give up the big play all day but the storylines kinda.ignore that.
On film, the Titan run game is only superficially like the 49ers run game.
Every team comes in saying the same stuff...
"Our run defense has improved so much... We can shut down the 49ers run game"
"Our offensive line is the best you've seen all year and we can handle the rush"
"Your secondary isn't that good, you can't guard (Thomas/OBJ/Adams/Cooks/Diggs/CMC/running back out of the backfield)"
"The 49ers haven't played anyone yet"
We were literally underdogs to the Bengals, Browns, and Panthers.