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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut
We can use our coverage strengths better against SF than we could against Baltimore and Buffalo.
We're a great man coverage team. It's dangerous as hell to play man against either of those squads because the QB will run it on you. Purdy can run, but he ain't those guys.
So we can come out in simple man over coverage and play harder against the traditional run game.
The 49ers just don't match up against us as well as either of the two teams we just beat in their own barn.
Vegas be damned - the Chiefs SHOULD win this game. By 2 scores, IMO. Yes, the 49ers have better WRs but that's the strength of our defense. And the 49ers OL may have an elite LT, but they're not as strong elsewhere on the OL as Buffalo and Baltimore were. Their interior is nowhere near as good as those squads.
I don't see an area on the field where they win the matchup, IMO. And ultimately I trust our coaching staff to make any adjustments necessary to pull it out in the 2nd half far more than I do Shanahan and company.
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Yeah, it's the whole styles make fights thing we've been talking about this year.
The Chiefs match up really well with that Shanahan offense.
Big, physical DEs who set hard edges against the run. Interior pressure guys.
Fantastic CBs who can play sticky man coverage or zone, and a CB room that has 2 All-Pro level corners, 2 more really good corners behind them, and a good and versatile S group behind that.
A deep and versatile and smart LB room that doesn't have a real weakness.
And a scheme that weaponizes all of it.
And as for the 49ers defense, they have an absolute stud DE, but the rest of the defensive line is average.
They have a pair of really good LB. The secondary is a significant weakness. Safeties don't stand out. One good CB, and the rest of the room is vulnerable.
And a scheme that has relied heavily on a zone scheme the Chiefs' offense is set up to absolutely blowtorch.
KC is going to force them to play a lot of man, and they don't have the personnel to do that.