Simple narratives produce simple results. Those simple results are often wrong when we fail to dig a little deeper. At first glance, it would appear that the San Francisco 49ers defense broke against the Philadelphia Eagles. When you surrender 31 points you usually aren’t going to have a happy ending. Still, when we break the numbers down we realize DeMeco Ryans’ defense played pretty well.
If we break down their performance in all three playoff games we could get a pretty good idea of what might be coming to Houston. This is where competing narratives can cancel themselves out.