Run game coordinator Chris Foerster explains why the San Francisco 49ers were so pass happy against the Baltimore Ravens.
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00:00 >> What's the difference on your offensive line?
00:03 How do you regroup from the last game?
00:06 >> Kind of like every week, we just, you look at your injury report,
00:10 you kind of put it together and go back and get ready to play next week.
00:13 So last week we were down to the eighth player was on the field.
00:16 We had Trent go down, Jalen went, Jalen early had a stinger, and then was okay.
00:22 And then something else happened later in the game, so Jalen came out.
00:24 So Jalen was in, Jalen was up, Jalen was down, then Jalen went up,
00:28 then Trent went down, then Jalen went in, then Jalen went down.
00:32 So we had to flip Colton over and move Spencer out, and
00:35 then Banks went down at the end of the game, so.
00:37 >> When you were both going to your offensive linemen, what would-
00:41 >> Tight end, Charlie wanted to go in,
00:43 Charlie go in, we'd have to kind of makeshift that.
00:45 And it's kind of funny, I can't remember, I was telling Trent this this morning.
00:49 Cuz only recently have they gone to eight offensive linemen.
00:51 When I got in the NFL, there was always allowed eight guys, we always had eight up.
00:55 But then special teams and everything else took over, so then we went to seven,
00:58 everything became seven all of a sudden.
00:59 So you had seven, and very few times, probably three times in the course of 25,
01:03 30 years did you have to get to some other position playing offensive line.
01:08 I think it might have been our last game when Trent,
01:11 when I was there in 14, my last game with Trent in Washington.
01:13 I think Logan Paulson played left tackle for a series or two for us.
01:17 Because we were down, we lost Trent, we lost Tom Compton, we lost another guy.
01:21 And so we had to put Logan in for the last series or two.
01:23 So yeah, this one is eight linemen, and you lose three guys, and
01:26 if you lose a fourth, then one more guy, you'd have to go and put a tight end in.
01:30 So it's tough, but everybody's back working, and I don't know what everybody's
01:33 injury status is for this week, but I think we've got a fair amount of guys to get back at it.
01:38 >> After Banks going to the Seattle game on Thanksgiving,
01:43 kind of working his way through that toe injury and
01:45 toughing it out and playing in that game.
01:47 Kyle indicated that this injury is not as bad as that one, but
01:50 do you think that kind of experience could help him just in terms of mentally,
01:53 like if he does need to push through something to get this win?
01:55 >> Especially since I think it's similar, it might be the same toe.
01:58 I don't know for exactly, I think it might be very similar if it's not the same foot,
02:01 same toe.
02:02 So at least he knows the feeling, he's like, yeah, this wasn't as bad as last time.
02:06 Yeah, it's all an experience that's gonna help him.
02:08 >> I was gonna answer your question about fullback, and in passing,
02:11 you kind of mentioned that the team's most effective run concept doesn't even
02:15 really feature a fullback in the traditional, it's more of a one back.
02:18 What is it, that play?
02:19 >> I'm sorry, that most teams run?
02:21 >> No, no, that your most effective run play,
02:22 you said it doesn't really feature a fullback in the traditional set.
02:25 >> Yeah, it's just an outside zone play, the tight end.
02:29 And whether we go, how we target and everything,
02:31 we're just running straight outside zone with no lead back, no nothing.
02:33 We're just running the tight end side, it's the play we scored on,
02:36 Christian scored from the nine yard line on.
02:38 And we have a receiver on that side, usually it's responsible for the corner.
02:41 There's just a couple different rules, but it's not that confusing.
02:43 It's just a basic zone where everybody, we're kind of,
02:45 there's leverage plays and out leverage plays.
02:48 In other words, when you're targeting and the play's going,
02:50 let's say the play's going to the left and
02:52 everybody's targets tend to be over there, you kind of have leverage.
02:54 So you have a chance to cut the defense and run the ball where there's,
02:58 you kind of cut the defense off and you've got leverage on the defense, right?
03:02 Then there's out leverage plays where all our targets are over there and
03:04 we're all kind of going over there.
03:05 And at some point, somebody wins a block and
03:08 there's an opening for the back to choose.
03:09 This plays more of those plays that were out leveraged.
03:11 Everybody's kind of chasing, although on this time it didn't work out that way.
03:14 But so it's a very basic standard outside zone play of the tight end side.
03:19 >> Chris, what did you think of Barrett's left guard and
03:22 how did Burford fare in your mind at right tackle?
03:25 >> Burford struggled, man, he had a hard time.
03:26 His footing was rough out there.
03:28 For some reason, a couple guys were losing their footing towards the end
03:30 of the game.
03:31 I don't know what happened.
03:33 I don't know if it just got wet out there or
03:34 something towards the end of the evening.
03:36 But that's no excuse.
03:37 Spence had gotten limited reps.
03:39 He was an emergency plan for us at tackle, went out there and
03:42 had some good plays but had more plays that weren't good.
03:43 Same thing with moving Colt over to left side.
03:45 That's an emergency plan.
03:46 You don't have time or any chance.
03:48 At certain games when we didn't have Bart or the third center up,
03:53 Colton's our emergency center.
03:55 It's not like we rep him at center.
03:56 He's able to get the ball up.
03:58 Now, is he gonna make all the calls and block anybody?
04:00 It's gonna be suspect.
04:01 When you get to that point where you're on the eighth line and
04:03 when you've got your third contingency plan up, it's gonna be hard to rep it or
04:06 get it ready to go.
04:07 But I'm glad it happened because what it does is it does,
04:10 no matter how many times I tell them, guys, you gotta be ready because this can't
04:13 happen, we're repping you, you are the fourth tackle in the game.
04:16 You're the third center in the game.
04:18 You're the fifth guard, blah, blah, blah.
04:20 They look at you like you're crazy, coach, it's never gonna happen.
04:22 It doesn't happen until it happens, and then you gotta be ready for it.
04:25 >> And then Bartch, I mean, how good of a part-
04:27 >> I'm sorry, Bartch was solid.
04:28 Yeah, he's a solid guard, and I think he's more comfortable right now at guard than
04:30 center, although I think I've mentioned to you guys, I like him at center a lot.
04:33 He's still gotta get some more reps in our system at center.
04:35 But he did a good job in a limited amount of snaps.
04:38 >> What were the Ravens doing early that had you guys
04:43 throwing the ball on that opening drive and the first half-
04:46 >> That's Kyle, I've talked to him about
04:48 why the play calls come out as they do and what he decides to do on that.
04:51 We felt really good about, I felt really good during the week about our ability to
04:54 run the football against them.
04:55 I think we felt good about some of the things we had in the passing game as well.
04:58 Obviously, Kyle decides to do what he's gonna do with the calls, and
05:00 we just, as he dials them up, we do the best we can.
05:03 I felt really good and comfortable with how we were going, and
05:05 I felt until the injuries, I felt we had a good chance.
05:08 Obviously, the turnover, short field,
05:09 there's so many things went in that game to make it not a good game for us.
05:12 You have to really look for the silver line.
05:13 I'm not gonna stand up here and say, we got beat.
05:16 I'm not gonna sit here and say, it was really not that bad a game.
05:19 It was a bad game.
05:20 But there were some spots in the game early where I felt like we had a chance to
05:24 have a good game running the ball and protecting the quarterback.
05:27 And obviously, that got away from us as the game went on.
05:29 >> This might be a weird question, but say you were to watch Packers-Bears 1965,
05:37 like a replay.
05:38 Would there be any sort of, this asks the question,
05:43 would there be any sort of concepts, run game type of concepts?
05:47 You say, well, we still use some of that stuff, or is all that just obsolete?
05:52 >> No, there's a lot of stuff that, and I wasn't, I'm old, not quite that old, but
05:56 no, no, I know, no, no, no, no.
05:59 No, if I pull any, pull any phone out, you're gonna see it.
06:01 Football is a copycat.
06:03 I mean, so much of it is.
06:04 I watch Andy every now and then.
06:05 I remember plays I learned in the West Coast office.
06:07 When I got to Stanford with Denny Green,
06:09 Denny was still running the pure West Coast offense from Bill Walsh's playbook.
06:13 And the red book that he put in here, and that he learned from Denny, from Bill.
06:16 And shoot, I've watched every now and then Andy Reid,
06:19 there's plays that pop up that he learned from Mike Holmgren.
06:21 That you're like, wait a minute, that is a, it's a different version of, but
06:24 it's the same play as, I remember learning the play, this play 19W,
06:28 where the Tom Rathman would cut the defensive end.
06:30 And Guy McIntyre would pull around the cut of the defensive end, and
06:33 you'd hand the ball to Roger Craig around the corner.
06:35 And they might be handing it to a jet sweep guy with a halfback cutting
06:39 the end man, but it's all the same concept and
06:41 play that you'll see people that pull up everywhere.
06:43 Power plays, sweep plays, there's origins of every play in football.
06:48 There's only 11 on 11, and you can only cut the pie so many different ways.
06:51 So there's always gonna be something.
06:52 I'm sure I would glean something from it, definitely would.
06:55 Especially with some of the stuff that we're doing with more two back
06:58 version offense.
06:59 There wasn't as much one back shotgun running game and things like that.
07:02 So that stuff's a little bit new.
07:02 But there's only, that, so much you can do there.
07:05 There would be a lot.
07:06 >> Can you land look any different without sweat and young?
07:11 >> No, they're not doing anything different.
07:13 Their ends are obviously they let go two good players for
07:16 whatever reasons they had for doing it.
07:17 They have good players that are backing them up and have stepped in and
07:19 really got benefited from the time they've had to play.
07:21 You've watched them get better every single week.
07:23 The guys that took over playing for sweat and young.
07:25 The interior two players are still the strength of defense.
07:27 Linebackers are fast and physical.
07:28 Their secondary is young, but they're aggressive.
07:30 This is a solid defensive football team.
07:33 I'm sure Kyle's talked about it.
07:34 And every week, man, it's about us.
07:36 I mean, at the end of the day, we have to be all these teams we play.
07:39 It's a challenge to play.
07:40 Everybody presents different challenges personnel wise.
07:43 But man, as you saw last week, if we don't take care of our business,
07:45 doesn't matter who you play, where you play them or when you play them, man,
07:47 it can be a challenge.
07:48 And these guys are a good football team and will bring, well,
07:51 they don't have the record to show it, but they do have good players who play well.
07:54 And I just haven't had things go their way at this point.