wco81 wrote:49er4life1979 wrote:So Steve Wilks told Maiocco that the halftime adjustment was more press man coverage which allowed the DL more time to get pressure. It also allowed LBs to play more downhill. So why the hell did he not do this the whole game? Instead he allowed the team to get picked apart by sitting in a soft zone. I remember after the bye week and the 3 game losing streak he went back to press man and it worked wonders. This defense has too much talent to look weak like they did.
Because you can only trust the secondary to play man only so long.
In fact it may have been one of the 4th down plays where the Lions motioned and saw a man follow so they assumed man coverage and had a couple of mesh drag routes.
But in fact the 49ers disguised their zone pre snap and the WRs didn't get open on the "man beater" routes they had called.
Against KC they should definitely go press man to start. Mooney and Demo can definitely match up with their receivers. We need to be able to pressure Mahomes.