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Originally Posted by O.city
I've seen some people poo pooing his playoffs thus far because he's gone up against "lousy" defenses.
Yeah, **** that noise. It's the playoffs. If teams are that lousy in the playoffs, well, it's not the playoffs.
Those teams looked shitty because the offense is just that good. It's the 2013 Denver offense with Brett Favre at QB instead of a statue.
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The only difference between the lousy Texans/Titans defenses and the 49ers is the respective front 4s.
That 49ers secondary is no better equipped to deal with Mahomes than either of those units.
And as has been noted already, Mitchell Schwartz is like a designated superstar DE destroyer. His existence on this earth seems to be to do nothing but shut down All-Pro defensive ends. So yeah, I'm fine saying the Schwartz will effectively shut down 1/2 of that set of bookend DEs.
So now the only real concerns are 1) Can Fisher hold up his end of the bargain? And 2) Can the IOL do enough to slow down Buckner and then the inevitable Bosa/Armstead reps when they get kicked inside on passing downs and/or utilize twists/stunts to get themselves isolated on the interior linemen?
Wiz is so much better at identifying those things than Wylie was that I'm more comfortable w/ the loops and delayed blitzes. LDT and Reiter have also been pretty adequate in pass-pro of late. Not so bad that I think they'll set about torpedoing entire halves of play like they did at previous points of the season.