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Originally Posted by Halfcan
JJ Watt! That is all the media talked about. They were sure he was going to dominate. Instead, he was gassed. The point was- our running game has been carving them up when it counts. The jet sweeps have been huge, plus they have to account for Mahomes burning them with his legs now.
49ers will get some pressure with their front for, but I don't think they can cover Hill deep or will have an answer for Kelce gutting them in the middle. Our Oline has been playing out of their minds as well.
How are they going to counter Williams catching passes out of the backfield? You can't sleep on this guy at all. They try to blitz, Mahomes will dump off to Williams, who can take it to the house.
The last 2 Defensive Coordinators retired after facing us- I have serious doubts the 49ers are going to shut us down.
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They're not gonna blitz. That's the point.
I'm not saying they're some dominant defense without any holes - but they have the ONE thing that can slow this offense down and that's the ability to get pressure with 4.
And while their zone looks will leave gaps, they have a nice athletic young 3-down backer in Fred Warner that can do just enough to cover up the middle to make things complicated IF they're getting to Mahomes fairly early. That will allow those zone coverages to survive for a bit.
Styles make fights and the 49ers defense is as well situated to slow us down as anyone. Not to
shut us down, but to create some negative plays and a stumble or two.
Things have a tendency to snowball one direction or the other in the SB and that's my only real worry here. A couple of big plays early by one of the fast HBs the 49ers have, or a catch and run by Kittle or a broken coverage that lets Samuel bust one off and with a bobble early forced by Bosa, Armstead, Buckner or Ford...things could turn south.
I'm just saying don't whistle past the graveyard. The 49ers are easily the best team we've faced since Baltimore and they're playing better right now than Baltimore was at that time. This will be (rightfully so), the Chiefs toughest challenge of the year.