I remember hearing this guy interviewed for the podcast. He did a great job...lots of talk afterwards of how we rarely attack with 3 WR's and esp. in the middle of the field (almost all our offense is to the sidelines).
10 Noticeable in-season trends during the 2013 Season:
1. Greg Roman's pattern of hiding the Pistol Formation periodically throughout the season before calling it every week to end the regular season and in every Playoff game.
2. There were noticeable changes in the red zone personnel groupings after Crabtree came back from injury.There was a sharp increase in the number of 11 Personnel (1.58 per game without Crabtree, 3.42 per game with Crabtree) and 12 Personnel (1.33 per game without Crabtree, 2.71 per game with Crabtree) plays called. The 49ers' red zone offense ran 22 Personnel plays 3.75 times per game without Crabtree but it decreased to 3.28 times per game with Crabtree.
3. There were also changes in the red zone play calling after Crabtree came back from injury. The number of red zone pass plays per game went up from 4.41 per game without Crabtree to 5.28 per game with Crabtree. There are plays designed to get Crabtree the ball in space quickly as an extension of the run game. However, Kaepernick passing the ball vertically (Vertical, Fade, BS Fade, Flag, or Post routes) to Crabtree was not successful at all for the 49ers' 2013 red zone offense. Crabtree had 7 vertical targets (4-Vertical, 2-Flag, 1-Fade) and none were completed to him and one was intercepted.
4. Pistol formation red zone plays per game decreased from 1.91 per game without Crabtree to .71 per game with Crabtree.
5. The 49ers went from scoring 2 red zone touchdowns per game without Crabtree to 1.83 red zone touchdowns per game with Crabtree.
6. The move man or motion man is the key to their run game as the run is usually directed off of one of his shoulders. Basically follow the motion man because that's where the run is going and the motion man is putting himself in the best position to carry out the block. There are definite patterns to their motion and blocking as detailed throughout the report.
7. In 7OL Personnel, if the Move player motions across the formation he was down blocking the Defensive End on 7 of the 8 runs.
8. In 22 Personnel, if the U motions to the C gap he was the outside block of lane 5 out of 6 times.
9. When they needed a tough yard for a 1st Down or a Touchdown they went to 7OL Personnel.
10. They ran the triple option in the year 2013! They ran triple option both with the traditional two Running Backs where the first option is a FB dive and also one with the first option being a player in motion.
10 Trends to watch for from the 2014 49ers red zone offense:
1. Following the 2013 Season the 49ers drafted a Running Back, a Fullback, a Guard and a Center. This is a good indicator that there will be a sustained commitment to 49ers' smash-mouth football going forward.
2. Triple option plays started getting called towards the tail end of the season and that should spill over into 2014, perhaps as a tactic to get more of their talented Running Backs on the field at the same time.
3. I expect someone else will start taking carries from Gore. That someone could quite possibly be Carlos Hyde.
4. I expect the 49ers will pass the ball in the red zone more in 2014 than they did in 2013 due to the additions of Ellington and Johnson to the WR corps and a healthy Crabtree.
5. I expect Crabtree will have the best season of his career from a statistical standpoint in 2014. He is in a contract year and he is heavily targeted by Kaepernick in the red zone.
6. I expect Kaepernick will have the best year of his career from a statistical standpoint in 2014.
7. I expect Jumbo Personnel to continue to be used heavily, although not as heavily as 2013.
8. However, I expect the Jumbo Personnel package will continue to grow more varied in the play calls.
9. I expect the amount of red zone pistol usage will increase in 2014 as it is still a highly productive formation for the 49ers.
10. And last but not least……the exotic pre-snap shifts will continue.
http://www.thefootballeducator.com/san-francisco-49ers-red-zone-offense/#ixzz3DXvr5pAO
[ Edited by NCommand on Sep 17, 2014 at 11:49 AM ]
