The 49ers offense cleaned up a lot of miscues during their week of practice in Youngstown, Ohio leading up to the Bengals game and it showed: they accounted for all 41 points and effectively helped the defense by making the Bengals offense one-dimensional. On the day, the 49ers finished with 572 total yards, 259 of which were gained on the ground at 6.2 yards per attempt.
How did they do that? By utilizing pages of the playbook, we haven’t seen all that much. They might seem non-existent at times, but Shanahan dressed up his predominantly outside zone running game with gap scheme runs like counter and power as well as misdirection and fly motions to take advantage of an aggressive Bengals run defense that held the Seattle Seahawks to 72 yards in week one.