Back in the day, Pete Carroll used to design the 49ers' defense, but this week he’ll be coaching against it for the third time this year. Yesterday he offered this scouting report of DeMeco Ryans’ guys.
“They don’t fool you. They just line up and they’re running their scheme. They’ve got some things that they do. They pressure rarely, but effectively. It’s just the fact that they’re so consistent at what they do, you have to beat them. You have to block them, you have to make them miss you, because they’re going to be in the right spots and they’re gonna execute really well.