To blitz or not to blitz A Smith?

The 49er's have a very balanced offence. They are not going to beat you with the pass (like us) or with the run (like Atlanta), but they need a combination of both. That means that you have to have a very disciplined game on defense, because each play could be either a run or a pass. IMHO, you can't blitz unless it is an obvious passing down. Run blitzing might get you a 5 yard loss, but it might also get them a 25 yard gain. Gore is too good for it to be effective many times in the game..

The reason we blitzed so much last week was because the Falcons had to play catch-up, and everyone knows they are lousy at it. If we get the 49ers in the same position, then we might blitz a little more. However, so far they haven't shown the ability to really dominate through the air, so I wouldn't think we would take too many chance with blitzing.