They’re going to run Pacheco until he can’t run no more. Only question is if Niners are going to abandon the run game or not like the Bills or not even get it started like the Dolphins or Ravens. Niners offense can hurt them passing but that’s the Chiefs defense strong suit. I think both quarterbacks are going to pick up some big run plays.
Agree 100%, everything you wrote. KC's defense covers middle and deep very well. That's where SF has burned many teams. So they are going to have to run a lot successfully to set up play action to get any options deep at all. Will they? We'll see.
KC does a great job of mixing run and pass. This isn't the same Mahomes team from a few years ago with Tyreek Hill who would burn teams for huge yards, while a young(er) Kelce always found ways to get open over the middle. Mahomes takes what defenses give him. SF absolutely must find a way to disrupt Mahomes. A few teams have done that in the past, I posted about it before. Even both Denver and Las Vegas were able to, though mostly from tight coverage. Can SF? I'm not so sure.
C'mon man...there's nothing special about the group except maybe Hurts, Burrow & maybe to a certain degree Love. Herbert is a complete bust & you know it! (Don't be a football zombie & believe there's any upside to this guy. Lol).
I said before. Herbert has
potential. And...he may always have potential! LOL!
But ownership blames Staley & hires Harbaugh to save the day. Lol (I'm hearing some scuttlebutt that Harbough may draft J.J. McCarthy to be his QB - wouldn't that be something).
I actually think it's possible! Look at it from this point of view. Herbert is not Harbaugh's guy. He could draft JJ, who isn't expected to be a week 1 starter, maybe not even a season 1 starter. He goes with Herbert, expected to "fix" him, get only good plays from him, not the hot/cold QB we've seen. After a year he can't do it, and finds a way to trade or even cut Herbert (Russell Wilson style) to get out of that absurd contract, and JJ is ready to go, having learned for a year in the NFL as a backup, making $5m a year, not $50m, and be a team they can build upon for the next few years, before Harbaugh moves on to his next gig. Is this likely? I have no idea. But yes, I can definitely see it as a possibility.
Staley was not a good HC, but he was also scapegoated. Several players came to his defense before, and after he was canned. Interviewed both at GB and LA Rams this week (where he came from). He'll get work somewhere as a DC or LB coach. If not in the NFL next year, it won't take long.
Bo Nix not doing so well in Senior Bowl week drills. Concerns about accuracy (not a shock as Pac-12 defenses tended to be soft. Penix had the same problem as soon as he faced a stiff D that can cover in Michigan, where he looked lost). Bo needs to have a big game on Sunday or may drop out of the first round. These guys can gain traction in the Combine and Pro Day though. Recall this was a criticism of CJ Stroud - threw to great receivers who were often open. But CJ graded an A+ at both the Combine and Pro Day.
Tua choked in the playoffs losing in the WC round & is 0-1 in postseason.
Their entire team choked. From the very first series they played like they couldn't wait to get that game over with and head back to sunny Florida. Plus they were banged up, and hardly ran the ball at all. But zero excuses for Tua. He was as bad as the rest of the team. It was like a long dentist appointment to the Dolphins! Chiefs get credit for punching them in the mouth and knocking a few teeth loose though!
Tua has been as streaky as Herbert, I'll be honest there. But I'm not calling either of them a bust.
Joe Burrow however has looked like a true all pro QB,
when he's healthy. And that's now become a real concern. This season first it was his calf, which he re-injured. What did him in as the season went on was the wrist injury, which later needed surgery.
Look at the guy's injury background in this link. Alarming, disappointing. He just turned 27 and is on his way to being the next
Jimmy Garappolo or
Chad Pennington (granted, better than both those guys, but...)
This is Love's first real year playing. He's had I believe 1 start in the last three years. He was doing little more than riding the pine. The biggest mistake Green Bay probably made was not getting rid of Rodgers a year earlier than they did.
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