Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice, fantasy analyst Matt Harmon, and NFL writer Charles McDonald discuss whether the return of Christian McCaffrey is enough to get the 49ers back to the Super Bowl. Hear the full conversation on “Football 301” – and subscribe on , , or
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It didn’t look great for mccaffrey.
I don’t know that if that’s the plan, they’re gonna run the ball consistently.
Obviously, him as a passing game, Mitch Mismatch really helps, but I love the way Jan Jennings was used him as the ex receiver answer for them was a creative one that I, I kind of had questions about coming out of the buy.
Like because nobody on this roster besides Brandon I UK has consistently played X for that team.
So that was nice to see.
I think Pierce Sos looked really good, but at the same time, do it against a team.
That’s not the Tampa Buccaneers that I think is uh one of if not the very worst pass defense in the NFL.
So I still have some questions about the actual artillery in the passing game and then if they’re just gonna go all the way back in on mccaffrey, I actually think that might not be the best thing for their run game.
Ok. You got Vita Va plug in the middle and just like by success rate, the, the Bucks defense is still pretty good against the run just in terms of success rate.
Epa, not so good.
So, like they’re kind of good down and down, but they’re giving up explosive runs.
They didn’t get any, you know, and, and, and that, to me that’s, that’s the worry that’s worrisome because I feel like you could put any of us back there and we could rip off, you know, a 15 year old run at some point in college and scheme still sta statistically they’re up there and everything, all efficiency stuff and everything.
It’s just that it’s just lacking that I keep using the word venom and I, I think with a, a running back approaching 30 with achilles stuff, that’s just scary.
It’s not like where I’m like, oh, ok, he’s just gonna knock some rust off.
It’s like, I don’t know, achilles stuff is, it’s a little interesting on there.
Their defense is playing a little bit better than maybe I give him credit for, um, you know, especially after the Hargrave injury, still not overwhelmingly good defense because they have holes in it.
And so that’s kind of, it’s just like a lot of like, I don’t think it’s a bad team.
I think it’s a good team.
Like, if we’re did a troop of top 10 power rankings, they probably sneak in for me maybe at the tail end of it, but it just doesn’t feel like maybe these teams from the last two years that we’ve seen with the 49ers injuries, of course, are a huge part of that.
But, yeah, it just doesn’t feel the same with that.