Football Film Room Weekly Newsletter
Week of July 17th
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A look back at how Vic Fangio’s Bears Defense throttled the Rams in 2018
If you listened to the recently released “Playcallers” podcast, then you know it was Vic Fangio’s Bears defense in 2018 that provided the rest of the league with the best approach for slowing down Sean McVay’s Rams Offense.
In their Week 14 game that season, Chicago held the #2 scoring offense in the league to just 6 points. Quarterback Jared Goff’s stat line was downright ugly: 20-44, 180 yds, 0 TD, 4 INT, 19.1 passer rating, 3 sacks…[Click here to read the rest]
DeAndre Hopkins makes sense for the Titans
DeAndre Hopkins’ decision to sign with the Tennessee Titans appears to be based on the fact that they offered the most guaranteed money. That makes sense.
From a football standpoint, the move also makes plenty of sense for both the Titans and Hopkins.
Aside from addressing an obvious need on their roster, the biggest reason that this is a good fit is Tennessee’s use of play-action. No team had a greater percentage of its passing yards come from play-action than the Titans did in 2022. In fact, that’s pretty much been the case since Ryan Tannehill got to Tennessee in 2019…[Click here to read the rest]
What makes the Bengals Defense so difficult to handle?
The Bengals defense doesn’t necessarily jump out to most people as one of the more elite units in the NFL. You can just look at their numbers from the last two seasons and see that they don’t overwhelm opponents by getting to the quarterback, creating turnovers, or even preventing them from moving the ball:
And yet they do manage to befuddle opponents and shut them down for large stretches of games pretty consistently… [Click here to read the rest]
Joe Montana’s 1988-89 Super Bowl runs were the best we’ve ever seen
Recency bias prevents many from having an appreciation for some of the great players of the past. The GOAT discussion sometimes seems isolated only to quarterbacks who’ve played in the league during the last 10 years.
That’s why sometimes it’s important to remind people about how great Joe Montana was.
Books have already been written and documentaries produced. So I won’t go chapter and verse through his entire career. Instead, I’ll leave you with his numbers from the most impressive 2-year playoff run by a quarterback in NFL history.
During the 1988 and 89 postseasons, Montana was lights out as he guided the 49ers to back-to-back Lombardi Trophies. Just take a look…[Click here to read the rest]
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