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It's always the 49ers way from off season to game days. Yeah, we talk fast. It's the 49ers cut back. It's 49ers cut back podcast time. Welcome to the show everyone time to talk about the 49ers versus Rams upon for the review. That means I've dug deep into the all 22 film and these are some of the takeaways that I have from the coaches film and I used to love doing this when I was a coach. I would go into the film. I would break it all down. Of course, I used to have the film right away. Now I have to wait a little bit. So it takes me a little bit of time to get into this stuff. I have started posting it over on Patreon. If you're interested in watching my film breakdowns on Patreon, that's available. That's 49ers cut back slash Patreon. Always available to you, but we're going to go over some of the notes that I've noticed. And with all things with coaches tape, you always recognize the good and the bad.
And I like to highlight some of the good and I like to just kind of put out there the coaching points. It's not a negative. I'm not talking bad about a player because I honestly believe that every player can work on those things and get better. That was just by mindset as a coach. We just got to get better. He's not executing. It's not that he's a bad player. Maybe his skill set. It doesn't really highlight doing a certain way. Let's find another way to do it. So there's always a way to get better. I think it's important. These guys always do tell the truth Monday where they evaluate themselves and look at the film and say, you know what? I just didn't handle it. I need to play it better. I need to work on my technique. Hears Barton famously. They used to talk about the fact that he used to get him worked up about his technique. He's always be over there checking on his technique, hoping that he was getting it right. And that's important. You got to make sure you got to get it right. And in some instances, the 49ers had some poor technique. What they had was some guys that learned. They learned quickly. They learned concepts. The Sean McVeigh was trying to take advantage of them with and they recognized certain things when they came a second time.
And I thought, you know what? That's extremely important. That was one of the things I loved about up to the style last year was you might get them the first time you play them. The Rams did. Second time they played them up to the style learned. And all through the process of his rookie year, you saw him go from a player that was taking advantage of at times. Who a guy that wasn't even close to being taken advantage of. He was taking advantage of you because of his film preparation, his technique, and overall just his football understandings, football IQ, what's next level? And you see a lot of 49ers with that football IQ. So what we're going to do in this one, we're going to go into it. We're going to talk about what we saw in film, how that kind of well, carry over into the Miami Dolphin games, things that the 49ers get better on. And then of course, things that of course they're doing really well. We're just going to highlight all that in this episode. And there'll be plenty of time this week to talk 49ers for dolphins. We're going to be getting into a really soon. But please like and subscribe to the channel if you haven't already. If you're listening to audio, platform, 49ers, cut back on, believe network, please give it a five star rating, leave a review.
If you feel like I deserve it, you can find out Spotify, Apple podcast, Google pods, Amazon. And here on YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts, of course, this episode of 49ers cut back is brought to you by Fandall, band, do all the title sponsor of 49ers cut back. So one of the things I noticed right away, as I'm watching this game and you're getting kind of, I break it down by like, you know, defense and offense. So I'm going through the defensive film. And one of the first things I noticed was there's a couple of times where the Rams are using wide receivers to motion in, especially when they're getting the 49ers in their nickel look. So in their sub packets, their nickel look, that means up to and stout is coming in. And they feel like they have an advantage with their bigger wide receivers against up to and stout. So they would motion them in a little bit and then use them to kind of come up and block him inside in the sea gap. And they would create a little bit of a lane or they're running back to be able to get extra room. They would do a block, which is double team at the point of attack to the defensive tackles
get a big body on up to stout. And they felt comfortable kind of with that type of blocking scheme. What we noticed was at some point, it was not very far into the game. Up to stout realized what was happening. And you had a play where Matthew Stafford, they got the look they were looking, they motioned the wide receiver in closer to the line or closer to the box. And when he got closer to the tight end, Matthew staffer saw up to stout moved in with them. So he went ahead and he can the play right. And they knew it was going to be a run. You know, who else knew it was going to be run up to stout. He pointed right at it pointed where the wide receiver was going to go and then beat him across his face. Up to stout's gap was not the big app, but that's where he ended up going through. So he completely knifeed in got underneath it and made a tackle in the backfield of Kyron Williams. And it was a big explosive play for the 49ers defense, getting a no gain or a loss. Those are huge momentum switches. And up to stout did that by recognizing. Did they get him early in the game? Yes. They were able to motion in and block him and make that play, but he learned those are
the kinds of things that are awesome. So we've seen up to stout learning. And this is in the run game, the run defense part of it. You think you have an advantage, right? You get the 49ers in a nickel situation. I've got big wide receivers. I got Pukin the cool. I got these guys that can go out there and block these little nickel corners. Not so fast because up to stout is not just relying on physicality, which he has a lot of he's relying on intelligence and football intelligence. And I'm going to beat you to a spot. That's exactly what he did. I thought that was phenomenal. Another instance for a cornerback was Ronaldo Green. We know Bernardo Green got the interception. It was so great to see him sag back. You know, played how he was supposed to leave the guy underneath for the linebacker. So rally and make a tackle on if they needed to, but to keep drifting on that play because they had a through route, which is a deep vertical. That marquee sequel had to pick up. He had no help on that side. So he kept going, kept going and ends up being right there for Matthew Stafford, you know, to throw in the football for the big interception. Now with that, for years, we're getting some pressure.
So give the 49ers defensive lines and credit some of the stunts up front. We're creating an opportunity to get to Matthew Stafford and maybe make him rush the ball just a little bit. But the reason that Matthew Stafford do that ball, if you go back a couple of drives before, do the big Pukin the Kua catch along the sideline where Pukin the Kua ends up breaking the tackle of drag green law. And of course, I don't know what Jair Brown was doing when he left his feet. You don't leave your feet unless you're going to be able to make a play on the football. And he was a, he was a tick slow. He was not going to be able to get his hands on that football and he went for the all-out interception. Those situations, you got to make sure you play the man first, then the ball. And so that's a little bit of a Jair Brown coaching point is you only go up and make the play on that ball. As if you're sure you can get your hands on the football. And even then, you've got to make sure you have a hold of that guy. So he doesn't get away. And Pukin the Kua is so strong. I would like to see Jair Brown on that. If you even believe you're a tick slow or you're even just going to be right on time, let's
play the man. Let's not risk a big time play which they ended up getting that resulted in a touchdown. So don't leave your feet on that, Jair. And I know that's going to be a coaching point for them. And hopefully Jair will clean it up. But the underlying portion of this play is Bernardo Green doesn't sink on that play. And if you would have sank, it probably would have deterred Matthew Stafford from throwing the ball. Boy, he did as he kind of came up on the underneath route a little bit too tight. And when he did, it allowed that layered throw to be made. And it was a good throw by Matthew Stafford. Well then, you fast forward a couple of drives. Matthew Stafford is expecting Bernardo Green to do the same thing. Except this time, Bernardo Green says, nope, I'm going to sink back. I'm going to allow my linebackers to rally, make the tackle underneath. And I'm going to play the football and either phenomenal job and he makes the interception, whose situations where corners are learning. And that is going to be one of the things that's very important in game. You're going to have moments where you get beat.
Everyone's a professional. Everyone does things extremely well. And they're going to find these opportunities. They're going to get you. But can you learn from them? Or are they going to be able to take advantage of you the entire time? In this instance, we see two players that learn from those mistakes and are end up making big plays for the 49ers defense, starts with up to stout the run game. Bernardo Green with a big turnover. Hey, the 49ers are plus one in turnovers because they're making plays on the football. And some of that they needed from that secondary. In one situation played really well with Bernardo Green making it with Jair Brown, trying to make a play. And this what we talked about, Jair Brown, one of the big advantages that he gives this football team is he will make plays on the football. The problem is there's too many times that he does it's feast or famine, which I are brown. We need a little bit less famine and a lot more feasting from Jair, but I thought it was really nice to see those two guys making those plays for this football team. And Rahim Morris just had Matthew Stafford uncomfortable the whole game.
I don't know how many times I've seen Matthew Stafford double clutch, or you know, look like he's going to throw and then change his mind. It was kind of the norm for him right now in this football game. He just looked uncomfortable out of sorts for the 49ers against the 49ers defense. And I thought that that was Rahim Morris just kind of keeping him on edge. It wasn't like Rahim did a lot of sophisticated coverages like he did a lot of things that Matthew Stafford wouldn't normally see. But I felt like what it was is he did him at the right times. He knew when to pull the trigger on certain looks, certain stunts, certain pressures, certain coverages. And I felt like that kept Matthew Stafford a little out of sorts. And I haven't seen Matthew Stafford out of sorts against the 49ers defense very often. You go back and you look at last year and he was just firing on all cylinders against the 49ers defense. And one of those games Fred Warner was playing, you know, they had Bernardo agreeing they had the honor of the nor they had Jair Proud. They had Marquis Segal.
It wasn't like it was a huge difference. Now did they have both a no and that does make a difference. But I'm saying wholesale. It wasn't crazy different. But the 49ers defense looked remarkably different in this game. The 49ers defense looks faster. They look smarter. They look like they're better at technique as far as tackling and things like that in the open space minus Jair Brown. I mean, these dudes were tackling like crazy good. And Jair with some of it is just a little out of control at times. But he can still get better at that. But I will say this that that 49ers defense looks so much better with where he morris at the helm. And they did a really good job of investing in speed over the last two years, right? Up in stout plays like his hairs on fire. Bernardo Green looks comfortable in this defense. You already had Jamehren or the hyena. You added Marquis Segal last year. Now he's not thinking he's just responding and playing. So he's playing a lot faster and a lot better. Trey Greenlaw back in there with Fred Warner. You had Ramello height. You had Jade and Dugger speed up front.
Osa Diggy Zua better pressure rate coming from him. He's going to help along with defensive line. Last year you had Jordan Elliott and Clea Davis starting. Now you have Osa a Diggy Zua. Just a big difference. Grayson holding the adding some of that speed and aggressiveness as well. So that was really good for the 49ers. I thought that man, you know, looking at these guys running around, you can tell it's completely noticeable what they're doing in the run game. And so the run game, the past game is really good. Made Matthew Stafford feel uncomfortable. Now that that was extremely important for the 49ers. Now it's it's that time where you talk about them 49ers versus my Ami dolphins. It's betting time. The biggest odds of the week 49ers favored at minus 13 and a half. That's a basically a two touchdown favorite for the San Francisco 49ers. That's going to minus 104. The over under at 45 and a half, especially how well the 49ers defense played. They think this is probably going to be a lower scoring game last week was 48.5.
That's going to minus 105 for the under minus 115 for the over. Of course, the 49ers Super Bowl odds with their victory over the Super Bowl favorite Rams. Come to plus 1400, which is tied for the Kansas City Chiefs after their Monday night win for fifth best overall in the NFL. Now if you want to bet bet with Fandall, lots of cool player props are going to be available. I love the player props. I really love getting into that. They'll have skaming car parlays as well. That'll be available. Check it all out with Fandall. But back to the notes because of the 49ers pressure package that Rahim Morris had was so good. And partly part of the reason it was so good was he never really had to bring too many guys. You never want to get into a situation where you have to bring more than five. You go against Matthew Stafford and you bring more than five. That means you're getting into a cover zero situation where you're pretty much maned across the board. And he picks you apart last season. He had 20 touchdowns and zero interceptions in those zero covered situations.
He never got those number one. Rahim Morris loves sitting in two man situations. Two high safety looks and just saying, you know, we're going to come at you with a seven man box. If you want to run the ball, you can run the ball. We feel like we're going to make enough plays on you that you're not going to be just able to drive down the field on us consistently in score touchdowns. That was a big part of this game. But those pressure packages worked like a charm. Yeah, there's one play where you see where mellow height drop out and up to stout comes. It generates a four man pressure, but they're coming from different angles and different sides. And it confused the offensive line. You get a situation where you get Kyron Williams won on one with up to stout. Stout wins. It's a hit on Matthew Stafford. You know, those are the kinds of things that they get a sack. No, but the Los Angeles Rams are one of the hardest teams that get a sack against. But you got really good timely blitz is coming from him. Really good timely stunts as well. There's another one where Ramello height. He's getting a lot of hatred for this game and was the game phenomenal for him.
No, but he had moments where it looked good. And there's one play he gets he's lined up inside. They got Okoranko outside of him and he works his self takes on two blockers and allows Okoranko to come with the stunt. Little T.E. Stump there. Okoranko comes quick into Matthew Stafford's face and Stafford has to get rid of the football before he wants to. And it's an incompletion. So these guys were working together. It was very unselfish defensive line play. And you seen them be able to make some plays happen. And I thought that the zone blitzes were fantastic. Sometimes it was linebacker. Sometimes it was defensive line. You add in the line stunts. I thought that was phenomenal. So it was a really good pressure package from where he Morris where he only blitz 19% of the time, which is that's less than the season average last year under Robert Sala. And he did he blitz 40% of the time in Atlanta. So very picky and choosy. I'm sure that'll change somewhat by what quarterback he's going against, but against Matthew Stafford. He did a really good job. They stayed in seven man boxes against 13 personnel.
They did sometimes go to eight man boxes and bring a safety in. But they weren't going to allow Matthew Stafford to just get up there and say, OK, we've got the three tight ends. These guys are good. You guys bring that safety in. We're going to take advantage of you in the passing game. They said, no, we're going to stay to I safety and you're going to have to consistently run the ball down our throats. And it didn't work. A penalty here, a mistake there. And they were going to stop. And I thought that that was a big, big risk. But it's a big reward. You always want to be able to stay to I safety and stop with seven. But that's also a part of the reason that they were able to do a block and get such push up front. So, you know, it's tough on those defensive tackles, especially against an offensive line like Los Angeles Rams. That if you're going to stay to I safety, they don't have to account for the extra man, which means they can double you and then and then work up to the linebacker. So that was something that was tough and CJ West and Grayson Holden and Osa Diggy Zua and James Thompson. Those guys were eating double teams and Keon White sometimes were trying to eat double teams.
Sometimes they did good and sometimes they didn't. And that was the risk and reward that Rahim Morris was willing to take on. And I thought that in the end, it worked out well. Did they give up more rush yards and they'd like? Absolutely. Is this the formidable run defense that they were hoping to have without recalls the CJ West? It's not. But if you can go through a game against an offense as good as Los Angeles Rams, a score, you know, over 30 points of game. You know, they did last year with the same 11 starters and you hold them to seven. You're willing to give up a little bit of yards in the ground. If that's not going to translate into points, who cares? As a defensive corner, you let a team go up and down the field all they want. If it doesn't result in points, who cares? Because the name of the game is scoring more points than they do. So I thought that that was a nice idea from Rahim Morris. The fact that the four years were able to do it was impressive. And it kind of helps me overlook a little bit of the defensive tackles getting pushed around so much because they were getting double consistently. I will say they need to get better at it. They need to work on anchoring. They need to work on getting skinny getting through that.
There were moments we see moments of CJ West doing really well. There be moments of race and Halt and doing well. Osa Digi-Zooa, James Thompson. So those are those are good. We need those moments to continue to get more consistent. But overall, I thought that it was a good plan and it worked out well. Now Fred Warner and Dre Greenlaw, they are absolute menaces. The way that they're flying around making plays the attitude of the 49ers, defense is definitely different. It was very fun to watch what they were capable of doing on the field. Did Dre Greenlaw hold them up? So Fred Warner could knock the ball out, creating turnovers, but you just felt like the defense was always in line. These guys had conversations and it was great because Fred and Dre Greenlaw are a dynamic duo. But even when Dre wasn't out there, the defense didn't change as far as attitude. They would bring Jack Jones in and Jack Jones brings a lot of that spark and attitude as well. I thought that he was phenomenal and I think that 49ers time package is here to stay. It was only eight plays. The armorland or moved inside with up to stout Jack Jones and Ronaldo Green played on the outside.
And I think that you look at it though and it's like, no, those guys are going to do really grow really well. So I do think that it's, you know, going to stay. I think this dime package is going to be here to stay. And I'm excited to see what they do because I do think Jack Jones is a plus player for the 49ers. And I didn't see a lot of weaknesses with the 49ers defense. We talked about interior defensive line that push. I think there's going to be some of that as long as he more is willing to stay with that seven man, you know, too high safety look at seven man box. I think that's going to happen. But let's flip it to the offensive side of the ball real quick. And let's talk about an offense that was really good to and well at all points. Starting with Brock, party, Brock, party was phenomenal in this game and going through the film. You could see him. He felt comfortable. He was making the right reads. He had the one mistake. He knew what he did in that situation. And unfortunately, he pulled the trigger on that ball and they got intercepted. But he was primarily taking what the defense gave him.
Early in this game, the Los Angeles Rams were willing to give things underneath. And he was taking them. Bam, bam, bam. Oh, Mike Evans first down. Oh, you know, screen pass over here. Oh, here we go. You know, we're going to get to Luke Farrell out here in the flat. George Kittle on the screen. The 49ers were getting the ball out of his hand quickly to neutralize what was going on with Miles Garry. And a big reason why is Kyle Shanahan just had an absolute masterful plan. And I I'm saying that with, I mean, the utmost truthfulness that I possibly can. This was masterful what he put out there on film. What they were able to do protections wise, helping with Miles Garry and funneling the rest of the defensive line in the situations they couldn't get hits on Brock Party to his ability to stretch things everywhere that he wanted to get him. I mean, he literally made the Rams cover every blade of grass. And I talk about this all the time. That is an offense is offensive coordinators. Number one goal is to try to make a defense cover every blade of grass.
And how do you do that? Well, you've got to threaten them horizontally, which he did screen pass, screen pass, screen pass, Dibo Christian, George, like get them all the ball, spread them horizontally. Deep out, you know, out pattern to Mike Evans over here. Demarcus Robinson over there. Okay, you got to cover the intermediate. You got to cover the short from sideline to sideline. And then Demarcus Robinson over the tops. Now you got to cover vertically too every ounce of grass you have to cover when that happens. Then a defense is spread out when they only have to cover a small area. This was one of the problems that used to always hit the 49ers offense when it came to Jimmy Garoppolo and no shade on Jimmy. But you were kind of in that middle portion of the field. And so what happened was it condensed all the defenders into that area. And once they're condensed into that area, there's more risk of things happening. That's why if you looked at the 49ers offense with Brock Purti at the helm, especially against the Rams, it just looks like their space, right? They're running motions, getting Mike Evans open over the middle. Their space. He can catch the ball in between defenders.
There's not a lot of tight coverage because they've stretched that defense horizontally and vertically to generate space. Then he throws in his motions and things like that to give them even a better look for Brock Purti. Be able to recognize the coverage to create even more space. We've been the trusted experts since 1960 because nobody knows tires better than we do. And with over 90 tire brains, we have an abundance of options and stock for your vehicle. Buy and drive today at americastire.com. Let's get you taken care of. Some are still going strong. So I always stop by total wine and more of this time of the year, whether I'm bringing a bottle of wine to dinner, filling the cooler with beer, or grabbing tequila for the weekend. If I'm looking for something new, the total wine team is always happy to point me in the right direction. And it's nice knowing I'm getting the lowest prices. Make the most of the end of summer with great finds waiting at Total Wine and more. Spirit, so not sold in Virginia or North Carolina. Drink responsibly V21. It's going on. I'm archmaning, Biori, athlete and college quarterback.
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and that's one of the things he does better than anyone else. You get guys moving, and all of a sudden, you might open a window laterally. Guys move one way, and then all of a sudden, it opens something up over the middle. So I thought it was a masterclass in what he did. They covered every blade of grass. The protection, Eam was fantastic against Miles Garrett, and the Rams defensive line, and the 49ers offensive line executed that to the utmost ability. Now, K-Lon Black is early involvement in this game. And it doesn't have to go this way. I mean, K-Lon Black could have went out there, not executed. And the 49ers game plan, as far as the run game wouldn't have worked. But K-Lon Black did execute. And what we see is a player that's going to be ascending all season. This is not the full potential K-Lon Black. He is learning tempo. He is learning how to execute this 49ers offense. You can see it at times, the wheels are spinning. At some point, when he locks in, he's going to be really, really dynamic in this 49ers offense. And he's already good.
But you can see it. And this is going to be so big for the 49ers moving forward during this season is if they can really allow K-Lon Black to get some early carries and be successful in the run game. And Christian McCaffrey can be as explosive as he was in the second half. Explosive, healthy Christian McCaffrey in half number two is no good for anyone in the league. But if Christian's fresh, when you get to half number two, and that defense is getting war down by K-Lon Black in this 49ers offense, Christian McCaffrey is going to explode for big time carries, which he did in this game. A 14 yard carry, a 16 yard carry, he looked explosive in the second half. This could be a real recipe for success. Play Christian McCaffrey on a lot of third downs in the first half. Play him sparingly on certain carries. Give the defense certain looks that you like for your team. And then lean on a guy like K-Lon Black. Lean on Debo Samuel at times. It give you a different look from that wide back roll. I think that this is something the 49ers as long as K-Lon Black can continue to develop and
get better as weeks go on could continue to lean on. And they might be extremely dangerous in the second half. They might be hitting turbo speed when that happens. If Christian McCaffrey is going to be the guy that's healthy in the third and fourth quarter. And a healthy, rested Christian McCaffrey in quarter number four, that's a problem for everyone. Not just making a comeback, but also finishing people off. So I love this for the 49ers. That was great. I thought K-Lon Black looked good. They're still the moments where he's a little bit, it's tempo's a little bit off. So he ends up running into an offensive lineman. At times it's not his fault. Sometimes it's an offensive line or a tight, tight in that misses something. But overall, I thought he did really good. I was impressed by it. The 49ers wide receivers were phenomenal. From Mike Evans to Debo Samuel, DeMarcus Robinson, it was really good. Jacob Kavin got like five snaps. But those guys were so good in this game. And yes, they all scored touchdowns. But what it was was how comfortable they made Brock Purtie Phil at quarterback.
They were always going to get to their spot at the right time. And that is something that he can lean on. And I thought that he really did in this game. You can see him looking at Mike Evans, knowing he's going to get to a spot, getting him the football, knowing Debo the way he does. He knew where he was going to get, gets him the ball over the top. The trust to go over the top to the Marcus Robinson. But also later on, hit him in a nice out pattern. You see the trust from Brock Purtie to the wide receivers. The 49ers have wide receivers now that are playmakers. These guys can go in. And that is something they desperately needed. You're not just going to go lock up the 49ers wide receivers. If you think about this game, the 49ers leaned on their wide receivers in the passing game and didn't have to lean on Titans and running back so they've had to do it in the past. The Titans and running backs were there, if needed. But this was a big wide receiver game. And what a statement game that was for 49ers wide receivers like, Hey, we're pretty darn good. We can make plays fade pass in the end zone. Yep, we can do that now six foot five, 220 pound wide receiver. Yeah, that guy's really good.
Oh, we need a guy that can make a play in the open field. Debo Samo's that guy, he'll find space. He'll make it happen. Marcus Robinson, he can do everything you need over the middle of field, but he'll take you deep as well. It was a great sign for 49ers wide receivers. And all that's going to do is make it more difficult for defenses. And that's how we have to worry about your wide receiver room. And as soon as we're focused on them, oh, here comes Christian out of the backfield. Oh, here comes George over the middle of the field. Here comes Luke Farrell making little plays out of the flat. This Luke Farrell looked a lot better in this game. And so I thought that the wide receivers were on point. And I think the 49ers really have some playmakers at wide receiver now. They do lose the John Stribbling. That's no good. They're going to have to figure something out until Christian Kirk gets back in a few weeks. But you know what, the 49ers are still in a good spot. When you look at those guys, we're at the top of this 49ers wide receiver and plenty of talent, especially when you do have George Kittle and Christian McAfry and Kyle Yuschek and the weapons better there. The 49ers tied ends in full backs. We're blocking next level in this one. I mean, Kyle Yuschek was phenomenal, which he normally is phenomenal.
And I thought he continued to play really well. But Luke Farrell was very impressive. And you expect it from George Kittle. George Kittle, he always blocks well, right? Putting Byron Young on his back, doing all those things in the run game, blocking really well. He's the one that sprung Klon Black on the big run on the toss play to the outside of the right. But Luke Farrell was coming through with the blocking scheme and getting to second level blocks and securing those second level blocks. I feel like this was Luke Farrell's best game as a 49er. And that's exactly what they need. 49ers have been missing that tied into that can block. Then's Charlie Warner left in free agency and went to Atlanta. So I thought that this was a very good game for Luke Farrell. It helps the couch and skimmed it up the way he did with the motions for Kyle Yuschek and just being able to go after Miles Garrett and Byron Young with Yuschek a lot of times, bring those tight ends up to the second level 49ers offensive line blocking extremely well up front in the run game. And I mean everybody Conor Kobe, Jake Brendel, Dominic Poonie, Trent of course, Old McKibbt who blocked his butt off.
This was a really good performance by Colton McKibbt. He's one of the best right tackles in the NFL now. And it's just he's got to stay consistent. But that's exactly what he played like in this game. It was good to see those guys do it. So scheme and then executing scheme for the 49ers and blocking was really phenomenal. And I'm going to say the statement. And I believe it right now the 49ers played like a top five offensive line in this game. And you know, those statements, if you had made them during the summer, a lot of people would have scoffed. And maybe you'll still scoff right now. But in this game, they played top five. Trent Williams looked like a number one or number two ranked tackle in this league the way that he handled Miles Garrett. And I get it. Miles Garrett's having arthroscopic knee surgery and all that. But make no mistake. He's having arthroscopic knee surgery because Trent Williams embarrassed him out there. He did really well in this game. It was it was a great performance by Trent in past blocking and in run blocking. He looked like a top tackle. Colton McKibbt's looked like a a top five right tackle in the NFL. I really believe that with Pina Soil moving over,
there's a good chance Colton McKibbt's in that conversation for best right tackle. If he continues to do what he did, he's going to be considered one of those guys. And he played top five level Dominic Poonie played phenomenal guard play. That was the one of the best games that he's played in his career. He looked really good. Jake Brendel looked healthy. And maybe last year he was a little unhealthy. But it was good to see him play. He played sub, you know, above average, Jake Brendel play. I thought that that was good. And then Conor Kobe struggled. Literally a little bit, but rallied and started improving. We talked about up to Stout and Bernardo Green learning. Conor Kobe learned on the job. And I think Trent Williams had a big, a big reason why it was a big influence on why. I thought he did a really good job. But overall that 49ers offensive line looks so much better. That O line to go with the blocking from the Titans in the fullbacks. Next thing you know, you're running for 5.9 yards per carry. Really good stuff from the 49ers. I was extremely impressed. The all 22 film held up, you know, it's really, it's never really as good as you thought or as bad as you thought.
And I thought it was good. And so lots of learning things for the 49ers. Keon White's got to clean up some stuff and run defense. He's going a little bit too far outfield. You know, getting kicked out and creating lanes. Got to squeeze that tight and things down like there's things like that. Technique things that guys are still working on. But overall it was it was good to see the 49ers executed at high level. They deserve to win. And good news for the 49ers. And now they've got to prepare for the dolphins. And we're going to start getting into all that in the coming days. So I'm looking forward to 49ers versus dolphins. Please like and subscribe to the channel if you haven't already. The listing audio platform 49ers cut back on Believe Network. Please give it a five star rating. This episode brought to you by Fandall. I'll catch you guys in the next one until then stay safe. Remember the right way is always the 49ers way. We've been the trusted experts since 1960 because nobody knows tires better than we do.
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