This is what Greg Cosell said on KNBR Thursday morning about the 49ers upcoming matchup with the Seahawks.
Q: What makes Seattle’s defense so good?
COSELL: They play a ton of man, and they play press-man. They’re a challenging defense. They don’t give you things. It’s earned yards. There’s a difference between earned yards and easy yards. The Seahawks defense gives you earned yards. You have to work really hard. Now, Browner’s out, Sherman could be out – that could change the personality of this defense. That could change the dynamic of this game.
What it does is it gives the 49ers receivers more than likely free releases off the line of scrimmage. When teams play press-man, what they do is they disrupt the routes off the line of scrimmage. That can disrupt the timing of the pass game.
Q: Who’s got the advantage between the 49ers defense and the Seahawks offense?
COSELL: When they play Week 7 it was very much the 49ers defense, because Wilson was still in the embryonic stages of playing. They were not a high volume offense. They kept it simple. They’re a different offense now. I think they do a lot more. There’s more deception with the read option principles. I think Wilson is a better player. He’s a more confident passer. The 49ers play a lot of man-to-man coverage. One thing I’ve noticed about Wilson is he is more than willing to throw the ball against man coverage, and he’s very accurate down the field.
Q: The Seahawks haven’t seen LaMichael James. How will he affect this game?
COSELL: Kendal Hunter was there Week 7. I think Kendall Hunter and James are not that different in the ways the 49ers use them. James is a smaller back, he weighs less than Hunter. I think they get both guys on the perimeter in similar fashion. I don’t know how different the offense. I think what’s different is the pistol and the running element with the quarterback. That’s something the Seahawks did not have to worry too much about when these teams played Week 7.
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Grant what is your vote on the poll?
Man coverage equals a lot of yards rushing for the quarterback. Kaep and Wilson migh get a lot this game. Luckily for us we have Willis and Bowman who can manage Wilson. The Seahawks can’t say the same. No matter how much we don’t like it but I think Kaep needs to rush for over 100 this game for us to win. This is the way I see the game going. Gore will get his carries and good gains but in 3rd and 4 Kaep will drop back to pass, see the press coverage and difficulty of the WR’s to beat it, Irvin is coming around the corner fast so Kaep will need to take off. 15 yards every time will really throw the Seahawks off track.
Bobby Wagner is a very good, very fast middle linebacker.
Not Willis and Bowman fast.
I agree. Excellent LB in space. Quick and tackles well.
Wagner ran a faster 40 than both, so yeah he’s fast. Almost as fast as Bruce Irvin.
Yea but isnt CK faster than wilson
I noticed that in the first game, the niners offense had more success when in the 2nd half when they went to a dink and dunk flow. Getting yardage in small chunks but moving the chains. Seattle seemed to be giving them those short plays and taking away everything deep. I wonder if they try this again. Especially now CK is behind center. It’ll be interesting to see if he takes advantage of it like AS did