Capítulo 1476: Chapter 1475: On High Alert
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The San Francisco 49ers have comprehensively adopted a rotation system on both offense and defense, which is different from the Houston Texans who were forced to adopt it due to injuries. Ultimately, it’s Shanahan’s strategy, a proactive choice, especially for the defensive group, a tactical layout Shanahan ticulously planned from the start.
From a tactical perspective, abandoning superstars to unite the team, all players beco pieces in Shanahan’s hands, allowing him to evolve nurous strategies at will; at the sa ti, it ans that throughout the entire season, no lineup has ever played the full ga, no lineup has ever attempted strong confrontations till the end.
Maybe, soone thinks that with less playing ti in the sa situation, doesn’t that an saving energy? When it cos to the final showdown, can the stamina prevail?
But a slight understanding of competitive sports reveals that it’s not so simple, stamina is built up through accumulation, and the intensity of confrontation needs to be gradually increased and accumulated bit by bit.
A simple example: Soone who has never run a marathon suddenly starts running one, it’s likely to cause an accident; even if this person is a professional athlete, like a professional football player, without accumulation and training, it’s likely they cannot keep up with the real marathon journey.
Football is the sa.
If players have never played the entire ga, they don’t know what it feels like to play the full ga, nor do they know how to mobilize their physical potential when strong confrontations finally demand it; now in such intense and dense confrontations, asking them to imdiately keep pace—
Daydreaming.
So, so far after three quarters, the Kansas City Chiefs’ stamina is severely depleted, and the San Francisco 49ers themselves have also paid a heavy price.
Shanahan has dragged the pace of the ga into a familiar zone by burning energy on both offense and defense, finally gaining the upper hand and widening the gap, but the real test has just begun.
Shanahan is continuously observing and judging, he needs to keep his different lineups energized, maintain intensity and focus, or the team may expose gaps, both on offense and defense.
Moreover, he himself cannot be 100% sure which position will first expose weaknesses.
This unease constantly lingers in his mind, Shanahan cannot relax at all.
This also ans that Shanahan needs to be more ticulous and focused moving forward, as he leads the team by transferring the players’ burdens, ga variables, and pressures onto himself, calculating and facing these himself to increase the probability of victory through his strategies.
For instance, right now.
Details!
So far, all three quarters have been like this, whichever team does better in details gains the upper hand at critical monts.
Score? It’s just a number, putting the score aside, both sides remain entangled and stalemated, the ga state remains consistent.
In other words, the Kansas City Chiefs might turn the situation around through details; but likewise, as long as the San Francisco 49ers maintain focus, they can hold onto their victory.
Opportunities are equal.
Shanahan steps forward, continuously communicating with the linen through gestures, “Number 23!”
Li Wei, remains their number one target, winning the regular season MVP is definitely no accident! Shanahan firmly believes that Li Wei is the core, the San Francisco 49ers must not give Li Wei any room to operate.
The atmosphere is tense, filled with a murderous aura—
Bosa can clearly feel it, the Kansas City Chiefs players’ eyes are like wolves, staring at him, wishing they could devour him alive.
Not just Bosa, other defensive group players of the San Francisco 49ers can feel it too.
Silently, Bosa can sense the muscles of his teammates on his left, right, and behind tense up, showing support through actions despite no verbal communication, tightly united to face the storm ahead, which fills Bosa with confidence.
Two-ti defending champions?
So what!
Tonight, when they stepped onto Hard Rock Stadium, the goal was to defeat the Kansas City Chiefs, to pull down the lofty and arrogant Kansas City Chiefs from their throne, to prove to the entire league, the entire world, that the so-called invincible war gods do not exist, to rekindle the glory of the San Francisco 49ers!
Look, who is leading in score now?
Ah!
Bosa pounds his chest fiercely, letting out a roaring growl, eyes filled with a touch of fierceness, glaring intently at Li Wei without yielding an inch.
Hatred, it’s already ford, so… might as well end the myth of Li Wei himself!
“Attack!”
Mahos announces the snap.
In an instant, the San Francisco 49ers’ defensive line visibly tenses up, the interconnected zone defense bending at the knees to lower their center of gravity—
This ans their focus is entirely on ground defense, watching Li Wei like an impending enemy, ready to showcase their league second-ranked ground defense capability.
Yet, in just a blink, less than two seconds, a red-brown parabolic line arches over the tangled area of the offensive and defensive lines, flying just five yards, finding Hill among the crowd.
Hill!
It was actually a pass, and it was Hill!
Having just encountered an interception, Mahos boldly targets Hill again for a pass.
This ti, under Watkins’ cover, Hill felt no pressure at all, easily securing the football in his arms, even turning around to push another three yards before finally falling in the layers of interception, catching the San Francisco 49ers off guard.
First and ten, Second and two.
First and ten, Second and five.
First and ten.
Five consecutive tis, the Kansas City Chiefs used Li Wei as bait, with two of them being fake runs turned into real passes, Mahos completed five short passes with a one-hundred percent pass success rate, securing two consecutive first downs.
Shanahan, alarm bells are ringing big ti.
Not just because they lost two first downs—this is normal, very normal indeed; but because the Kansas City Chiefs’ tempo is back, “Unbreakable by speed alone.”
If the San Francisco 49ers want to defeat the Kansas City Chiefs, they absolutely cannot let them enter their fluid, sweeping offensive rhythm, don’t even ntion the San Francisco 49ers, currently in the entire league no team or defensive coordinator has absolute confidence to stop a perfectly in-form Kansas City Chiefs.
The most successful part of tonight’s ga for the San Francisco 49ers is continuously disrupting the Kansas City Chiefs’ rhythm.
Shanahan needs to keep it up.
There’s no ti to worry about anything else, Shanahan imdiately directs, showcasing his ability to adapt in-ga.
Second and six, the San Francisco 49ers adopt a blitz strategy, but it’s a fake blitz, not many are sent in, the focus is on creating a fake blitz illusion, while the real strategy remains in the short pass area, relying on interconnected, cooperative zone defense to block Mahos’ passing targets.
Sure enough, caught right in the trap—
Under pressure, Mahos attempts to find Kelsey for a six-yard short pass but cannot control the pass arc, it flies directly out of bounds.
Third and six, finally, the San Francisco 49ers slightly slow down the Kansas City Chiefs’ offensive steps.
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