Hutchinson: 10 questions that will define 49ers’ 2024 season (paywall)
“The Detroit Lions, amongst others, gapped this team into oblivion. Detroit – often running “duo” (a gap scheme inside run) and split zone run plays that utilized interior double teams before climbing to second-level blocks – ran the 49ers into the ground in the first half of the conference championship.
If Josh Reynolds caught a couple passes and Jared Goff was a little better than Jared Goff, the Lions would have (and should have) run away with things. The reason they were about to is because of the run game.