The Next Step in 49ers HC Kyle Shanahan's Development
Analyzing the next step in San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan's development.
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00:00 What's the next step for Kyle Shanahan this season?
00:05 Kyle needs to adapt to five man in the box.
00:10 Kyle needs to come to grips with himself and get rid of someone on that right side
00:16 of the offensive line and either put the person who was replacing Trent Williams.
00:23 >> Baylon Moore?
00:26 >> Yeah, yeah, put him there because he can't be any worse than those two.
00:29 I test those guys are a liability.
00:33 Other teams are putting their best pass rushers who primarily play on that side.
00:38 They're just moving over on that other side and dominating.
00:41 Their other coaches are mercilessly going over on that side,
00:47 stunting on that side, and they can't handle that anymore.
00:52 And I think they need to just comes with grips is that they
00:54 underestimated two aspects, the underestimated the value of their
01:00 offensive line and how bad it was.
01:02 And I think they've underestimated the value of their corners.
01:06 >> Yeah, that offensive line man, the right side,
01:10 I don't know what they were thinking with the Colton McKibbin Spencer Burford combo.
01:14 >> And it's not even- >> Nothing against those two.
01:16 >> It's not even those two, but it's the combination of those two.
01:19 >> How do you line them up together and think this fifth round pick and
01:23 this fourth round pick and this fifth round pick are gonna be a good starting
01:26 tandem, that's a nice, they're nice depth pieces.
01:30 But that's all you aspire to have on the right, they can't run to the right.
01:34 They can't pass Brock on the right side of the line.
01:37 They're just sort of there, they're in the way.
01:39 >> They're in the way.
01:40 >> Briefly. >> They're in the way.
01:41 They're in the way.
01:41 >> Yeah.
01:42 >> They're 20th in pass Brock win rate.
01:45 They're losing the majority of the time and
01:47 they're getting bailed out because Brock can actually move up.
01:51 He's got a little bit of quick step and he's getting that stuff done.
01:55 I think the other thing that Kyle needs to do is that I think everyone forgets,
02:00 Kyle is watching the defense play.
02:03 I think Kyle gets wrapped up in how the defense isn't dominating anymore.
02:07 And I think Kyle's being too aggressive on his play.
02:12 I think Kyle needs to realize that he has a young quarterback.
02:15 He's got to put the quarterback in a place to succeed.
02:17 And I think he's trusting that the quarterback is gonna deliver because he
02:22 can do these off script plays and the turnovers are happening.
02:25 I think Kyle's looking at his defense and he's gonna be like, crap,
02:29 we actually have to win the game now.
02:31 I think that's part of it too, that he's down there looking at this.
02:34 He sees what's happening.
02:36 And I think part of the issue is that Kyle needs to come to grips is that
02:41 his defense may not be as good as it was.
02:43 Why?
02:45 And he's got to figure out why and I think a lot of other players, former
02:50 players, one thing that stuck out to me, Grant,
02:54 was that the 49ers are number one in pressure rate.
02:59 I have that right up here.
03:00 They're number one.
03:02 They're winning the majority of the time.
03:05 They're getting to the quarterback, right?
03:08 They're either- >> But
03:09 their corners are playing with such a large cushion, it doesn't matter.
03:12 >> It doesn't matter, but here's- >> It doesn't matter.
03:15 >> I think people take for granted how spacing as well as where you should be and
03:21 how far you should be, the linebackers as well as the corners and
03:27 playing that together, they're aligned so terribly that when they do get to the
03:33 player, that player has the head of steam and he's making the missed tackles.
03:37 I can't tell you how many times previously years, they would catch a five
03:42 yard ball, but I would see five red jerseys converge on that person.
03:47 That's not happening anymore.
03:49 >> No.
03:50 >> And I think that's the thing that- >> Yards after the catch, all that, yeah.
03:54 >> I think that is something that I think Richard Sherman alluded to.
03:57 I think other players have alluded to it as that they truly are not mirror,
04:03 they're not combining their pass rush as well as their coverage together.
04:09 And I think because Wilkes is a coverage guy, he may be getting a little too cute.
04:13 >> Also, remember that really the hallmark of D'Amico's defense,
04:17 it wasn't anything schematic.
04:19 What would people say about D'Amico's defense?
04:21 Man, he gets all 11 guys to the ball every snap.
04:25 This defense is relentless in their pursuit.
04:28 That's not just defense anymore.
04:30 This defense is sleepwalking.
04:32 And it's like, it seemed like with D'Amico and Salah,
04:37 those two guys sort of infused emotion and passion and
04:41 energy into their players, right there in the sideline.
04:45 That's what they were there to do.
04:46 Like, they weren't like, what am I gonna call next?
04:48 Man, it's gonna be cover three.
04:49 Like, you know what you're gonna do.
04:52 You do some very simple stuff, but you're there to infuse passion because Kyle's lost
04:56 in his playbook thinking about the most clever play you could ever imagine.
05:00 Wilkes isn't doing it, and I feel like this defense is missing it.
05:04 This defense is really missing that element.
05:06 Wilkes is doing the same thing, but he's doing it up from the booth and
05:08 it's not working, right?
05:10 At least- >> It's not working, man.
05:11 >> And I think defense is so much, as much as you wanna scheme it,
05:16 as much as you wanna be cute.
05:17 >> It's emotion.
05:18 >> It's emotion and it's effort.
05:19 Defense is all effort.
05:21 >> Effort, effort.
05:22 >> And you are right.
05:23 I think outside of those two linebackers who are killing themselves, right?
05:27 And basically by the fourth quarter- >> Where's the effort?
05:30 >> Right, outside of that- >> Where's the effort?
05:32 Is it from Travaris Ward?
05:34 So I think Travaris Ward is not, quote unquote, the problem.
05:40 I think Wilkes doesn't know how to use him.
05:43 I also think the biggest- >> How do you use Travaris Ward?
05:45 That's a good question.
05:46 Because if you play him in zone coverage,
05:48 he's gonna just watch people catch the ball.
05:50 And if you play him in man coverage, he's gonna commit a penalty.
05:54 So what do you do?
05:55 >> So I think Wilkes has him playing so off.
05:59 It's almost seven, eight yards.
06:00 And I think what D'Amico did was play, and
06:05 Salah did this too with Sherman, was that they had them play five, six yards off.
06:10 It wasn't the amount that we're seeing now.
06:13 Because I think the problem is that they're in between.
06:16 They gotta commit to that zone and live with it.
06:20 And I think they're doing this thing where they're kind of like shielding
06:22 themselves, but it's compounding it.
06:24 They gotta trust their players.
06:26 The only player I do not trust on that defense is Oliver.
06:29 And the stats prove that because everyone's batting 1,000,
06:32 throwing to that guy.
06:33 And as much as defense's effort, there's one, what is the age saying?
06:37 You can't hide slowness and speed kills.
06:40 He is the slowest person on the field.
06:43 He is so slow that offensive coordinators are literally scheming
06:47 him to be one on one and people are four, five yards open.
06:51 >> He's terrible.
06:52 And he can't tackle you.
06:53 >> But to me, he's a glorified linebacker at this point.
06:55 >> He's not good.
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