5 Keys to the Game for the 49ers Against the Eagles
Analyzing five keys to the game for the San Francisco 49ers against the Philadelphia Eagles.
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00:00 Here are the top five keys to the game for the 49ers
00:02 when they take on the Eagles on Sunday.
00:05 One, run the freaking ball.
00:10 Start there.
00:12 Last time they went to Philly and lost
00:13 in the NFC Championship, 31 to seven,
00:15 they came out passing.
00:17 They wanted to prove that James Bradbury was trash
00:20 or that Hassan Redick wasn't that good,
00:22 and they were wrong.
00:23 They lost because they were passing
00:25 when they were going up against a defense
00:26 that wasn't that good at stopping outside runs.
00:28 They had Christian McCaffrey.
00:30 He's their MVP.
00:31 Kyle Shanahan said so the other day.
00:32 I asked him, "Is Christian?"
00:34 Give him the ball.
00:35 For a lot of reasons.
00:37 One, he's your best player.
00:40 Two, it negates the pass rush.
00:43 Three, it's gonna be raining most likely.
00:46 Brock Purdy doesn't throw that well in the rain,
00:50 or at least he didn't in Cleveland.
00:52 And even when it's not raining,
00:53 Brock Purdy throws the ball to the other team
00:58 more often than average.
01:01 3.4% of his passes are interceptable.
01:04 2.4% is the league average interception rate.
01:07 So he's gotten a little lucky.
01:09 Could be raining.
01:10 He got hurt passing in this game last season.
01:15 Run the freaking ball.
01:17 How do you protect your quarterback?
01:19 Run the ball.
01:19 How do you protect your quarterback
01:22 from turning the ball over?
01:23 Run the ball.
01:23 How do you get the ball to your best player?
01:27 Run the ball.
01:29 That's what the Niners should do.
01:30 Two, pass from the shotgun.
01:33 When it's time to pass,
01:35 forget those slow developing play action passes
01:37 from under center where Brock Purdy turns his back,
01:40 takes an 11 step drop, turns around,
01:43 surveys the Felix, too slow.
01:45 That's how we got hurt last year.
01:47 The Eagles aren't reacting to the play fake.
01:50 They're just coming for him.
01:52 So get him in the shotgun,
01:53 get the ball out of his hands quickly when he's throwing.
01:56 Because most of the time he should be handing it off.
01:59 Niners can win that way.
02:02 They used to win that way all the time with Jimmy Garoppolo.
02:05 Protect Jimmy Garoppolo, protect Brock Purdy,
02:08 get him in the shotgun,
02:09 get the ball out of his hands quickly.
02:11 No long developing play action passes from under seven.
02:14 Three, block Hassan Redick.
02:17 Take him seriously.
02:18 When the Niners take certain defensive players seriously
02:21 in the D-line, they do a great job.
02:22 Whenever they face Aaron Donald,
02:24 they make Aaron Donald invisible.
02:25 You never notice he's on the field.
02:26 They give him the proper respect and win, beat him.
02:29 Same for Micah Parsons with the Cowboys,
02:33 who frankly is better than Hassan Redick.
02:35 The Niners never let Micah Parsons wreck the game.
02:38 They give him the proper respect.
02:39 They work around him, they win.
02:41 Last year, they just didn't give Hassan Redick
02:43 the proper respect.
02:44 They tried to block him with not just any tight end.
02:47 It'd be one thing if they tried to block him
02:48 with George Kittle.
02:49 No, no, no, Tyler Croft,
02:51 guy who was like inactive the week before.
02:53 That's how, I mean, that's how little respect they had.
02:55 So have some respect.
02:57 Don't do that anymore.
02:58 None of those play action passes
03:00 where you block a guy with a backup tight end to trick him.
03:02 It's not gonna work.
03:03 Block him with your offensive tackles and chip him.
03:06 Give him respect.
03:08 Treat him like you would treat Micah Parsons
03:09 and you'll be fine.
03:10 Four, keep Jalen Hurts in the pocket.
03:14 The Niners are a really good defense
03:18 and Jalen Hurts is a very good player.
03:20 He can do a lot of things,
03:21 but as a pocket quarterback,
03:23 he's probably not gonna beat the Niners.
03:25 If they let him out of the pocket,
03:27 if they rush past him, give up scramble lanes,
03:29 can't stop him as a runner, they'll lose.
03:33 And they've had issues with mobile quarterbacks,
03:35 both scrambling and in the zone read,
03:37 quarterback driven runs game.
03:40 They gotta keep Jalen Hurts in the pocket.
03:42 That's on Nick Bosa.
03:43 That's on the defensive ends.
03:44 Don't rush past him.
03:46 Keep him there.
03:46 They don't even have to sack him.
03:48 Keep him in one place.
03:50 'Cause once he gets outside the pocket,
03:51 he can run for first downs, he can throw for first down.
03:53 That's when he is tough to stop
03:57 and tough's an understatement.
03:58 Five, make a mid game adjustment.
04:01 Eagles do that really well.
04:05 They're often losing at halftime.
04:08 They were losing in the fourth quarter last week.
04:09 They were down 10 points in the fourth quarter last week.
04:12 Kyle Shanahan has never won
04:14 when he's down more than eight points in the fourth quarter.
04:16 Oh, and 39.
04:17 I'm not saying he's gonna be down 10 points
04:20 in the fourth quarter,
04:21 but this probably should be a close game.
04:23 And it might come down to which coach
04:26 makes the mid game adjustment,
04:29 the adjustment you can't plan for.
04:31 Sirianni isn't a play caller,
04:32 but he seems pretty good at that.
04:34 Kyle Shanahan, not so good at that,
04:38 at least historically.
04:40 This guy had big leads in two Super Bowls
04:42 and couldn't close the door.
04:43 28 to three in one and 20 to 10 in another.
04:47 Couldn't close the door.
04:48 Just needed an adjustment.
04:50 Couldn't make it.
04:52 Is he gonna make it in this game?
04:54 We'll find out.
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