12-22-2015, 05:11 PM
(12-22-2015, 03:31 PM)3wt Wrote: All that is true. But Lap said that they had trouble when they just had 7 in the box.
Lap said what appeared to happen is that SF jumped right on our O-line with a vengeance, 8 in the box and a different defensive scheme. He said our O-line responded with tentativeness (which would be natural) and that was like blood in the water for the SF DL. We never really recovered.
My concern is that we didn't make tactical and emotional adjustments at half time.
Then again not passing it once in the 4th quarter was sort of setting the line up. And the decision worked, though it got dicey towards the end. And San Francisco has generally done well defensively at home this year.
They'll have to have a different game plan for Denver, though. And I expect them to. The O-Line should be revved up to redeem themselves.
Could be a heck of a game.
Stacking the box isn't the only way you play the run over the pass.
The touchdown to Kroft is the perfect example. We keep extra blockers in when teams show blitz. SF didn't really stack but they showed blitz and the LBs had been playing hard downhill all game. So when they blitzed, we ran play action and released Kroft. The LBs were way over-aggressive on the run fake and the DB never saw Kroft release.
You can play the run hard with 7 in the box just by how you react. The LBs were going downhill all day. There was no fear of being beat by a pass.
