In a league where offensive "balance" usually means that the coach waxes philosophical about "establishing the run" in the press conference but calls 50 passing plays in the game, Shanahan has achieved play-calling nirvana. The 49ers have rushed times and attempted to pass times this season. That's about as close to as you can get. OK, we know what you're thinking: The 49ers have spent a lot of this season protecting big leads, making them more likely to hand off to munch the clock.
All true. But take away fourth quarters, and the 49ers still run 46 percent of the time, per Sharp Football , the league's second-highest rate behind only the option-heavy Ravens. Take away fourth quarters and keep the score within 10 points to create a truly neutral situation, and the 49ers still run 46 percent of the time, well above the league average of 42 percent in those situations.
All of that running and all of those fullbacks and tight ends set up play-action opportunities. According to Football Outsiders , the 49ers are the second-most effective play-action team in the NFL, averaging 9. They use play action on 29 percent of their passes, the sixth-highest rate in the NFL.
No, Staty McAnalytics, "establishing the run" does not make play action more effective. But designing formations and personnel groupings that force defenses to keep bigger, slower defenders on the field, close to the line of scrimmage and guessing until well after the snap definitely makes play-action passing more effective.
Here's an example of it all coming together in Kittle's yard touchdown against the Packers in Week Notice how all 11 Packers defenders are within 10 yards of the line of scrimmage and close to the hashmarks against a three-tight end alignment.
Play action and the threat of a reverse both eliminate the pass rush and force cornerback Kevin King to cover Kittle with no deep help, and Kittle has plenty of open space on both sides of him to sell a double move. Here's another example, dating back to Week 2. Juszczyk motions into the backfield, creating a constricted formation that convinces the Bengals to cram 10 defenders into the box.
Everyone bites on the play action, allowing the speedy Goodwin hidden inside what starts out as a bunch formation to slip undetected through the defense for a wide-open touchdown. Kyle hit the Bengals with one of his favorite plays for the 49ers first TD of the day.
This is the Leak concept, but typically he runs this with a tight end. This is a new little wrinkle. Most teams try to create explosive plays by spreading their Tyreek Hill types all over the field to create isolated mismatches in open space. It often works. When teams bring the fullback into the game, it's usually time to "play ahead of the sticks" and control the tempo.
That also often works in the right situations. The play call is designed to put the defensive end in conflict with a sweeping running back to the edge. If the defensive end chases the back, the quarterback keeps.
In these Lance running game cut-ups, you can see his ability as a QB who can run between the tackles and truck defenders downfield.
The threat of the quarterback run is also stressful on opposing defenses, too, and looks that simulate a zone-read mesh automatically forces a defense to commit at least one defender to spying the quarterback. On zone read, if the defenders slow play the run and look to take away the quarterback keeper, they naturally remove themselves from the interior and cannot recover from pursuing the running back running downhill on the inside zone. The plays above look like sweep option run to the perimeter with Lance reading the MIKE linebacker for his cue to give or keep.
They are also similar to Shanahan's run game adjustments last season to the outside zone running game. The 49ers already run a variety of concepts that get the skill players to the edge.
They do that with a pass play that looks and is blocked like their strong side outside zone runs. Instead of a running back taking a handoff, the 49ers will send Deebo in motion across the formation and the ball outside and wide. This puts the traditional fullback lead blocking responsibility on Mostert. North Dakota State has a designed quarterback power with a sweep read-option that looks similar to some of those run game adjustments that Shanahan and the 49ers installed for the offense last season, minus the quarterback running element.
NDSU still pulls a blocker as they would on power read if Lance keeps, but in each play, a defender commits to the quarterback, so Lance gives. The arc blockers create a running lane for the running back for decent gains. Or Lance might keep if the box defenders cheat to take away the edge run. Either way, adding in the running element just further constrains the defense.
His left tackle, Joe Staley, moves immediately up field, but not before knocking a defender to the ground with a quick swim move. The space created by the fall allows his left guard, Laken Tomlinson, to seal the hole that Staley opened; Tomlinson walls off two defenders to his left, including the one who stumbled.
The 49ers have essentially blocked three defenders with two players. Mostert hits the hole without any sideways movement. Kittle, a tight end who celebrates his blocks , seals another defender near the left sideline.
Mostert outruns a corner and a safety for a yard score—on an inside trap on third-and-eight. Question or comment? Email us at talkback themmqb. Matt Besler is stepping away after 13 seasons in MLS and 47 caps with the national team, including a role on the World Cup team. Eddie Howe inherits a Newcastle team that is winless in its first 11 matches of the Premier League season. So the key facet for a tight end in the Shanahan scheme is to be able to add yards after the catch.
Kittle has a similar running style to Tennessee Titans running back Derrick Henry, one of the best runners in the game. The two are also nearly identical, in terms of speed. Kittle ran a 4. This combination of physicality and speed is why Kittle had the most yards after the catch in among all players, which was higher than players such as the Carolina Panthers multifaceted running back, Christian McCafferey.
When the defense gets used to these crossing routes from play action or bootlegs, the 49ers have sometimes used bootleg throwbacks. Bootleg throwbacks are when the quarterback scrambles to the backside, off a fake to the running back, and subsequently throws to the play side, sometimes in the form of a screen. A common theme of the Shanahan scheme is to make defenses think running one play and then pivot to another. Both of these formations generally have two running backs on the field, and offenses are less likely to pass with two tailbacks in a formation.
However, the 49ers have many plays designed to pass out of these formations, a key reason why pass-catching ability is a key facet for running backs in the system. Like pretty much every formation that they use, there is the option to make slight adjustments based on whether Shanahan wants to run or the pass the ball.
The tightness of the split of the X-receiver is a good indicator whether it will be a pass or run. Another theme of the scheme, which is similar but yet somewhat antagonistic to the previous one, is to use motions to make it appear the Niners are running a different play to the one actually being executed, such as run variations of the same play.
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