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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
It’s a style thing that’s driving the confidence here, more than anything else.
The 49ers have been pretty solidly a static zone team that doesn’t do a lot of creative things and that doesn’t do complicated disguises.
And if they switch it up and go man, they don’t have a LB or S they can match up against Kelce, and their coverage unit outside of Ward is not good.
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And to build on that, and maybe this is just my thought, but it feels like the defenses that give KC the most trouble are the ones who are excellent in the secondary. A great pass rush isn’t enough. Mahomes knows how to work around that and then find the open receiver wherever they are.
This SF unit is leaky on that back end. I can’t recall Mahomes ever struggling or even close to it against a group like that.