Defensive formation on 3rd and 16 in Eagles game.

Nolan said
My biggest complaint. He's still making elementary level mistakes to close out games.

I get we are a man to man team, and for most of the game we SHOULD live and die by that.

But you can't call that play on 3rd and 16 when they need a TOUCHDOWN to win and still haven't crossed midfield.

You play soft zone coverage, play contain to keep him in the pocket, and come up to make the tackle to play 4th down. So simple yet here we are putting our players in position to fail yet again after a should have been game winning drive by our offense.

Doesn't even have to be a soft zone. You can play a "match" coverage with someone manning up on Goeddert while everyone else is in zone (unless they go deep). But do not play straight up man when the opposing team has the clock on their backs. Much less blitz off it. Remember the the 49ers 2011 playoff game. Terrible terrible call.