Over the course of 11 weeks, the San Francisco 49ers defense has had a lot of bright moments. There is a lot of work to do, but the unit seems to be trending in the right direction.
One area that has been decidedly NOT a bright spot is times when the 49ers have dropped a defensive lineman into coverage. We don’t see it every time, but once in a while when things go south in a hurry, we see something like this.
OR this.
OR this
OR this
It feels like we see something like this every weekend.