Shanahan is regarded as one of the best play-callers in the NFL because he doesn’t try to fit a square peg into a round hole. He knows the advantage lies when McCaffrey and Kittle are matched up against Ernest Jones. That’s where the scheme, specifically all of the pre-snap motion, can help create mismatches that lead to a safety guarding Jennings or Pearsall. The Seahawks have two studs at cornerback. Great. Good for you. Let them line up against MVS or Kyle Juszczyk while the action happens inside the numbers.

That’s right, the game plan is the old “Throw it to your best players when they’re not being guarded by the other team’s best players.” Let’s see if it works.

For a team that missed the majority of its core offensive players in 2024, the San Francisco 49ers were surprisingly effi

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