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12 rec 180 yds 3 tds on Jerry Jacobs

  • September 18, 2023


12 rec 180 yds 3 tds on Jerry Jacobs

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  2. He’s not a starting caliber CB on a good D. I said this all off-season and got shouted down with random and cherry picked PFF stats.

  4. I know it’s a little bit of a moot point since he always gets dinged up anyway, but Iffy was a much better CB than Jacobs has ever been. I still have no clue why they moved him to Safety. Especially with our CB starters and depth being pretty terrible.

    There is no NFL universe where Jerry Jacobs should be your starter. I’d move Iffy back to CB where he belongs.

  5. Dude played soft coverage all game when Seattle was happy to take the underneath all day and pick up the easy yards. What’s frustrating the most is the third and longs he played soft coverage and let them take the first down. Many other plays he gave up inside leverage when that was his job. Guy got worked but the defensive game plan was straight garbage.

  6. Jerry Jacobs had an awful day. However, I’m actually gonna be a Jerry Jacobs defender today: People need to stop acting like he’s been so bad this entire time.

    Against the Chiefs when targeted, this was the statline:

    – 3 completions on 6 targets, 13 yds (2.2 yds/tgt), 0 TD, 56.2 Passer Rating Against

    Though you could make the argument, oh hey the Chiefs WR did awful. Fair enough. But here’s the entirety of last year:

    – 32 completions on 60 targets, 358 yds (6.0 yds/tgt), 1 TD, 70.0 Passer Rating Against

    This is about solid CB2/CB3 territory. 49ers last year (incredibly good defence) had Charvarius Ward who was a CB2 for most of his career had had to step up to CB1 after Moseley got injured. That got him:

    – 54 completions on 94 targets, 612 yds (6.4 yds/tgt), 3 TD, 82.4 Passer Rating Against

    With most of his seasons being worse prior to that. And just for good measure, here are the CBs we had last year which got similar amounts of hate:

    – 43 completions on 61 targets, 522 yds (8.6 yds/tgt), 3 TD, 106.0 Passer Rating Against

    – 32 completions on 50 targets, 448 yds (9.0 yds/tgt), 2 TD, 106.1 Passer Rating Against

    These two being Will Harris and Amani Oruwariye. Don’t get me wrong, Jerry Jacobs had a bad day yesterday and there *is* a genuine criticism to be had (I’ll reply with that) but… People been treating him like the above two when it isn’t even close. In all honesty, Jerry Jacobs’s worst season in pass coverage was his debut season (in which he gave up a 90.4 passer rating against, which is about average).

  7. I thought Will Harris was bad till I watched Jerry Jacobs get torched. At least Harris would have held a guy for PI or something…

  8. Jerry was on an island against Lockett and DJ Metcalf.

    This is scheme related. There are probably only a handful of CB1s in the league that could pull that off and maintain a reasonable stat line. You can’t ask your CB2 to do that all game and expect good results.

    Jerry didn’t have a great game of course, but he was lights out last game (wasn’t it 3/6 targets for 13 yards against Mahomes??).

  9. Jerry had a bad game – but at some point I started really scratching my head of where the saftey help was over top? I get it, Seattle has a LOT of weapons to cover… but it really seemed like Cam Sutton held down his assignments, why did they not adjust to slide over Jacob’s more? Idk

  10. The more I look at Aaron Glenn’s scheme/plan for defensive backs it increasingly seems like it’s, “When I was a player I could do ‘x’ so they should be able to do it too!” instead of scheming to the player’s strengths.

    Jerry Jacobs isn’t a good enough DB to be left on an island 1 on 1 against top-tier WRs.

    Yet despite him getting cooked all game and Aaron Glenn making no adjustments all we’re going to hear is coach-speak about accountability and players needing to execute the gameplan.

    Where’s the accountability for Aaron Glenn and scheming/putting players in the best position to be successful?

  11. Yeah he had a really rough game.

    They all did, we all watched it.

    AG needs a major shift change, great coach, great person. Maybe not the best DC though.

  12. Blame the coaches for putting him that position

    DK is one of the most physical receivers in the league. He didn’t have a chance

  13. Geno had way too much time to find the mismatches, Jacobs especially. Why AG waited all game to blitz until the last drive for Seattle is beyond me. It was very obvious from the get-go that they couldn’t get pressure rushing four.

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