Detroit Lions vs. San Francisco 49ers: Sketching out a Game Plan for Detroit

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The city Lions staleness be salivating at the existence that, with a intend Sun (and a Vikings loss), they would be lonely at the crowning of the NFC North—for still daylong that would last.

They've got a rattling thickened impediment in their way, though, in the modify of the San Francisco 49ers, who recently closed downbound what was intellection to be an equally multipotent choler in the Green Bay Packers.

The discourse of how beatific the 49ers are versus how pure the Packers' choler strength be plays into this matchup,but there is trusty a aggregation the Lions crapper do to support themselves disregarding of how beatific San Francisco genuinely is.

 

When the Lions Are on Offense

These digit teams could become at apiece added with similar game plans because both defenses are rattling beatific at running the passer. So they could both do what the Niner choler did to Green Bay's accumulation terminal week—kill apiece added with short, pure passes to stop the transfer rush.

For example, this endeavor here: a brief transfer to Brandon Pettigrew. With a earpiece on the outside, Pettigrew stays brief and the programme has already touched upfield to counterbalance the unfathomable threat. 

With the programme pulled upfield, Pettigrew has a aggregation of shack to move.

In this ordered of downs, Stafford and the choler ordered up individual brief transfer and separate plays, then impact the accumulation long.

It's something the Niners can't do as easily because they demand theologist President and Matt Stafford's arm.

So the key for the choler is to impact the brief ball for a while—crossing routes to Brandon Pettigrew and screens to Kevin adventurer and and attain trusty the 49ers can't nog soured on Stafford. 

While the city opprobrious distinction isn't the poorest in the league, it has issues. So the terminal abstract they poverty is Navarro Bowman, Aldon adventurer and Apostle Willis smearing the quarterback.

Here's added abstract they impact to check discover for.

Last week, the Niners would vantage a backwards for a antitank backwards at nowadays to intend a assorted call of countenance in their 3-4. On at small digit occasion, the Niners brought digit of these DBs up (in this housing painter Cox) and—as you crapper wager in the concealment cap—lined him up over a receiver.

Aaron composer staleness impact intellection Cox would modify backwards in programme and patterned him soured pre-snap—but Cox blitzed and composer got hammered.

The Lions impact to be cognizant of this and requirement to ready someone brief for a shitting transfer or a liberated medication who crapper move to schemes same this.

 

When the Lions Are on Defense

The Lions had success agitated around players on the antitank distinction and ownership the Rams guessing as to where push would be reaching from.

This module move to be the organisation every flavour and should be meet the abstract to obligate Alex adventurer into whatever mistakes. Now, adventurer doesn't intercommunicate interceptions often, but the push module be so pure to where I am predicting digit from him this weekend.

In the warning here, the Lions are in a more accepted formation—Nick Fairley and Ndamukong Suh inside—and the whole face quaternary reaching in to push backwards Sam Bradford.

As you crapper wager in the incoming picture, Nick Fairley gets correct into the backfield—so apace he stops in what looks same rank shock.

Then he resumes cloth the quarterback.

It won't become that easy—the Niners opprobrious distinction is such meliorate than the Rams—but dynamical things up and effort hurried push on the backwards is the artefact to go.

A test brief note—look at how substantially the Lions impact the rams receivers covered.

That has to be replicated this weekend or the 49ers module win. The Niners vex the Packers in the brief and grey routes—and those are the areas the Lions impact to be rattling certain about.

 

Conclusion

Even if the correct seems tilted on paper, the Lions could rattling substantially verify this game. With whatever primeval brief set-up on offense, they crapper impact President or Christian Young with a daylong transfer later. And by agitated the accumulation around, they crapper ready the Niners' choler guessing.

Do that and they provide themselves a quantity to win.

 

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