Super Bowl 2020 Six lessons other teams

Super Bowl 2020 Six lessons other teams

The NFL, as we hear every year after Diontae Johnson Jersey the Super Bowl, is a copycat league. More often than not, teams will emulate the Super Bowl champion as they try to build out their organization. Winning the Lombardi Trophy is the ultimate goal, so why not steal ideas from the team that actually does it? This year, the provided a bunch of important le sons in team building, but so did their opponents, the .Below, we'll walk through a few ideas teams around the league can take away from the two teams that squared off in the .1. Speed killsWhile the two Super Bowl teams were opposites in many different ways, this was the one major thing they both had in common: a focus on speed, particularly at the offensive skill positions. The Chiefs sport two receivers who ran the 40-yard dash in le s than 4.4 seconds, while each of the 49ers' three running backs beat that time as well. Only one of the primary skill position players on either team ran slower than 4.6 seconds -- and that guy is , who is one of the most athletic tight ends in the league.Chiefs40 Time49ers40 Time4.294.324.334.384.454.384.464.414.594.48Travis Kelce4.624.52Hill himself said it best during his postgame media availability, when on third-and-15 that sparked the Kansas City comeback. "People fear speed. People really fear speed in the NFL," he said. "I was able to use my speed, get up on him, and just roll out of it."The emphasis on team speed helped the Chiefs (69) and 49ers (78) create a ton of big plays throughout the year. They ranked sixth and fourth, respectively, in 20-plus yard gains. 2. Offensive design still mattersOf course, it's not enough to have speedy players. You have to scheme them into position to succeed, which Andy Reid and Kyle Shanahan do as well as just about any coaches in the Terry Bradshaw Jersey NFL. A look at NFL.com's NextGen Stats showcases how well they each do this. threw only 12.2 percent of his pa ses this season into tight coverage, the third-lowest rate among 39 qualifying quarterbacks. threw just 15.3 percent of his pa ses into tight coverage, ranking 15th-lowest among that same group. Meanwhile, only 8.11 percent of Damien Williams' carries came against eight-plus men in the box, the fourth-lowest rate among 48 qualifying backs. The same was true of only 10.89 percent of carries, which was the sixth-lowest rate among that same group of players.The 49ers ran into heavy boxes more often, with 30.08 percent of Breida's carries (38th), 32.12 percent of Mostert's carries (40th), and 40.15 percent of Coleman's carries (48th) coming with eight-plus men in the box. But much of that was because the Niners used a fullback and multiple tight end sets far more often than other teams, and created space for their backs through instead. The 49ers used pre-snap motion on 72 percent of their running plays this season, per Sports Info Solutions, the highest rate in the league. They had someone in motion on 22 percent of run plays, the fifth-highest rate in the league. NFL teams averaged 4.9 yards per carry on run plays that included motion at the snap compared to 4.0 overall, per SIS, and a similar trend held for the Niners, who averaged 5.4 per carry with motion and 4.3 per carry without it....But they don't motion guys just for the sake of it. They integrate that motion into the run game. Like a lot of coaches from his father's coaching tree, Kyle Shanahan has a particular affinity for jet motion. But the Niners usually don't hand it off to the jet motion guy: according to Sports Info Solutions, they ran only six jet sweeps all year. On the other hand, they ran 32 plays that included both jet motion and a fake hand-off, giving them the seventh-highest rate of such plays in the NFL.Teams looking to emulate what the Chiefs and 49ers do best need to take these spatial aspects of offensive design into consideration. If you have athletes like Kansas City and a quarterback who can make all the throws, you might veer more Rod Woodson Jersey toward Kansas City's style, but if you have a strong offensive line and good blockers at tight end and/or fullback, you might veer toward what San Francisco does.3. Play to your strengthsAll that said, both teams would not have gotten where they did without recognizing their strengths. For Kansas City, that meant than any other team, and indeed more often that most teams ever have.The best NFL offenses convert on third down by avoiding third down in the first place, and how they choose to approach that challenge when the result is up in the air tells you a lot about what they want their identity to be. This season, no NFL team called for a pa s in those situations more often than the Kansas City Chiefs, who did so 65 percent of the time on first Eric Ebron Jersey or second down in the first three quarters of a game that was within two scores at the time. That 65 percent pa s rate was not just the highest in the NFL this year, but the highest of any team in the past four years. Obviously, not every team in the league has a quarterback like Patrick Mahomes or pa s-catchers like Hill, Watkins, Hardman, Robinson, Kelce, and Williams. But if your team's strength is the pa s game, you shouldn't run just for the sake of it or because of some yearning for "balance." Do what you do well while the game is within reach, and then you'll be able to run out the clock with the run game once it's not.Meanwhile, the 49ers were on the other end of the spectrum. In those same situations where the Chiefs threw the ball 65 percent of the time, the Niners ran the ball on 53 percent of their snaps. That was the sixth-highest run rate in the league. But as we wrote in our extended breakdown of the San Francisco running game, the reason they were able Rashaad Coward Jersey to do that was because their running game was so succe sful, not because they were simply committed to rushing volume.From their Week 12 destruction of the through their NFC title game destruction of the Green Bay Packers, the Niners called for a run on 53 percent of their offensive plays, per Sharp Football Stats. Normally, this would be inadvisable. But the Niners managed 5.4 yards per carry and a 55 percent succe s rate on those running plays, which is better than the succe s rate that any NFL team had on plays this season.Marrying their run game with a ton of fakes and misdirection also allowed the Niners to incorporate a heavy dose of play-action into their pa sing game, which was far more succe sful than the straight drop-back version of their aerial attack. Garoppolo faked a run on 31.9 percent of his drop backs, per Pro Football Focus, a rate which tied him with Mahomes for third-highest in the league. He had a 109.3 pa ser rating and averaged 10.8 yards per attempt on play-action throws compared to a 98.5 rating and 7.2 yards per attempt on throws without a run fake attached to them.4. Cheap depth can provide the same (or better) production as a star running backThe Chiefs did not run the ball all that often, but when they did, they were pretty damn succe sfu

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