Was when the Giants brought 2 off the edge that the screen was on. Not sure if kaepernick checked to it if the Giants showed early or if they just got lucky but it was 2 over 1 with the backside safety having to make the play. Sometimes the offense makes plays too.
I was sitting upstairs and that play was available most of the night. DRC played through a block to stop it once but the Giant linebackers were pinching inside and all the Niners had to do was get one good block for a good play. Bolden is much bigger and stronger then any of our corners and the block needed was easy for him. We don't have very physical corners.
The 49ers had 2 bubbles where the LOT got out clean to the CB. That is a numbers problem. 4 vs 2. The comment above about the Eagles is spot on. The WR screen is their first passing option. Then, once the defense responds by playing a 3 for 2, they fake the screen, then pop pass to Ertz. Their offense takes wishbone option concepts from the sixties and seventies, as uses them instead in the short-passing game. It is an option offense.
Rodgers-Cromartie plays it best on the Giants because he knifes under the would-be blocker before the pass is thrown. But watch the Eagles option to his side because of it.
If the Giants face the Eagles without Kennard, Beason, Casillas...
... Selvie, and Ayers (not to mention their franchise RDE), it will be very difficult to give the corners the help they need to stop this play. Rodgers-Cromartie and Amukamara are pretty good at it; but as RetroJint says, it comes down to numbers, and the rest of the defense was trailing those screens by ten yards.
9ers sold play-action and our defenders bought it big-time. With everyone looking run the quick out to the WR is easy.
Part of that is on the defense, partly give credit to the 9ers offense in execution. On the first one their LT gets about 14 yds downfield to block our safety, springing the WR for a 30 yd gain. That's just amazing execution by the lineman.
When we recognized the look and weren't cheating toward the run, we stopped the play.
On offense the Giants have to make sure they aren't telegraphing the play.
really need to make a stink about how nearly every WR screen run against them is offensive PI - either because the WR's are picking or they are blocking before the ball is thrown.
SF didn't even try to disguise this, they straight-up had the WR's blocking immediately after the snap.
only to be stopped for virtually no gain. He's just too slow and has no wiggle for this type of play. Harris or OBJ might be better options, however, it also has to be blocked up better.
Picks have become so prevalent in the NFL now that I'm not even sure what is legal or illegal anymore. They certainly don't call it most of the time, but they will throw the flag every now and then.
But I saw what you saw, some blocking before the pass was caught.
this has been going for weeks...kind of reminds me of the center position last year....teams would stunt/blitz over Walton, and the Giants had no answer for it....
This WR screen, will be run over and over against the Giants, until they stop it....
shows that the bubble screen was also well executed -- with Staley pulling all the way over to execute a critical block taking out the safety when they ran it to the left side of the field
Our offense seems to have below average success with WR screens against opposing defenses (has Beckham every had big yardage during a WR screen?).
What gives?
Good scouting by the 49ers.
If you don't they have the sideline to go for big yardage. (The linebackers cheating is a great observation).
Who was just as fast and was a legitimate juke move artist (unlike Nicks).
Rodgers-Cromartie plays it best on the Giants because he knifes under the would-be blocker before the pass is thrown. But watch the Eagles option to his side because of it.
Part of that is on the defense, partly give credit to the 9ers offense in execution. On the first one their LT gets about 14 yds downfield to block our safety, springing the WR for a 30 yd gain. That's just amazing execution by the lineman.
When we recognized the look and weren't cheating toward the run, we stopped the play.
On offense the Giants have to make sure they aren't telegraphing the play.
SF didn't even try to disguise this, they straight-up had the WR's blocking immediately after the snap.
But I saw what you saw, some blocking before the pass was caught.
This WR screen, will be run over and over against the Giants, until they stop it....
I don't know what is legal and what isn't anymore.