Having watched the tape and entered another dimension via excessive caffeine consumption, it was clear that Kyle Shanahan fantastically (grossly) exploited Seattle’s defense. The 49ers head coach and offensive mind left me wanting to write on three topics: Calitro struggling, Thompson struggling and the Seahawks’ gameplan struggling.
There was so much to focus on that, once I’d chugged a few glasses of water and exited galaxy brain-mode, I narrowed the focus down to the passing game only and converted the article into a twitter thread. Shanahan proved his savviness as a schemer by using Seattle’s coverage rules and tendencies against them.