Answering the top questions that will determine the outcome of the Super Bowl between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs.
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00:00 You were awful, Steve, in the first half against the Lions,
00:04 but then you made the correct adjustments,
00:06 every necessary adjustment, and were excellent.
00:09 You were excellent in the second half.
00:11 What you did in the second half,
00:13 first half you played two deep safeties and zone coverage.
00:16 Didn't stop anything.
00:18 Second half you played one deep safety,
00:20 eight-man box, man-to-man coverage,
00:22 really did a great job against the Lions.
00:25 So that's what you got to do against the Chiefs.
00:31 You got to load the box and live with the results.
00:35 I know it's scary to load the box against Patrick Mahomes.
00:38 You didn't want to do it against Joe Burrow.
00:40 You probably don't want to do it against Patrick Mahomes,
00:42 but you have to. You have to.
00:45 You can't let this awful run defense be the reason
00:48 this team doesn't win the Super Bowl.
00:50 You got to load the box.
00:52 You have to have all kind of--
00:54 you got to let the Chiefs be bigger than you in the trenches,
00:57 or they'll win.
00:59 So if--
01:02 I mean, you have to have eight-man box pretty much
01:04 on first and second down most of the game
01:06 unless they fall behind the chains.
01:08 Got to stop Isaiah Pacheco.
01:10 And if they go two and three tight ends,
01:12 which they do a lot, you have to have--
01:14 you and Chris Kocera got to talk about it--
01:16 another defensive front, maybe a five-man front.
01:19 Because when they start putting all those tight ends
01:21 in the middle of the station, I mean, there's like--
01:24 there's so much space between the D tackle and the D end,
01:27 you could put multiple players between them.
01:31 So you got to have a five-man front.
01:33 You've used a five-man front this season.
01:35 I believe you started a game with it
01:37 after the bye week against Jacksonville, right, Steve?
01:40 With Javon Kinlaw at nose tackle.
01:43 You need to use that in this game. That's effective.
01:46 Take Jair Brown off the field
01:49 and replace him with a defensive tackle, Javon Kinlaw.
01:52 When the Chiefs go three tight ends, one wide receiver.
01:56 Take the safety off the field, get bigger in the trenches,
01:59 let Javon Kinlaw make an impact on this game
02:01 because, frankly, he's playing better than Jair Brown anyway.
02:04 Then you got to play man-to-man coverage,
02:09 which you did in the second half against the Lions.
02:12 Again, because you have to trust that
02:14 Travares Ward and Diamandou Lenor can cover Rasheed Rice
02:19 and Marquez Valdez-Scantlin one-on-one.
02:23 You have to trust it.
02:26 And then you got to double cover Travis Kelsey.
02:29 No zone. None of this soft zone coverage stuff.
02:32 My homes will rip it apart.
02:35 You have to be aggressive.
02:37 You have to try your best to shut down the run
02:39 and cover these receivers one-on-one.
02:43 Your best option.
02:45 Doesn't mean you'll shut down the Chiefs.
02:47 Could mean that your cornerbacks get called
02:49 for a lot of pass interference penalties
02:51 because the Chiefs get the benefit of the doubt.
02:53 A lot of that stuff, you know it's true.
02:55 But that's your only option.
02:56 I mean, yeah, you want to mix it up,
02:58 but really don't let Travis Kelsey run free
03:02 through some zone coverages where no one's really on him,
03:05 looking at him.
03:06 Luke Keekly spelled it out.
03:08 You have to have eyes on Kelsey.
03:10 When you're in zone coverage, all the eyes are on Mahomes,
03:12 and Kelsey's just wandering through wide-open grass.
03:17 Eyes on Kelsey. Two dudes on him.
03:19 Pause.
03:22 Double coverage.
03:26 Trust Lenore. Trust Ward. Those are your guys.
03:29 Really, Wilks, the defense has regressed in every way under you,
03:32 except in the secondary.
03:34 Coverage is great.
03:35 Lenore, way better. Travarius Ward, way better.
03:38 So trust the coverage.
03:39 You're going against a decidedly mediocre receiving core.
03:42 As long as you double cover Travis Kelsey, I like your odds.
03:46 So don't be the scapegoat.
03:50 Don't do that stuff you did in the first half against Detroit.
03:54 Don't wait until the second half to make the necessary adjustments.
03:57 Eight-man box, five-man front, man-to-man coverage,
03:59 double coverage of Kelsey.
04:00 That's what you got to do.
04:03 All right, thank you, Steve.
04:04 [Music]