Bucky Brooks explains Harvin's impact

[Scottemojo]

So I spent last night watching Harvin plays. He has more routes inside 5 yards than I have seen from anybody else. The effect it has when he is in the slot is fun to watch.
San Francisco got all messed up by Harvin. It ruined their pass rush. Knowing 28 is back there definitely is part of the deal, but SF did this thing where all their DL stood up for about half the game. They got so focused on stopping Percy's short routes that he got over the top, and the single coverage the other receivers got was taken advantage of. (Aromashadu and Simpson suck, but had really good games against the Niners)

We do not have a true number 1 receiver. Sidney and Golden cannot defeat double teams by themselves or even command them with regularity just based on their own abilities, but with Harvin we will see them have some truly great games. Harvin will impact our 3rd down game the most. Defenses cannot sit on the sticks on 3rd and long because Harvin is so damn fast he can turn a 2 yard flare into a 10 yard gain if you give him that 3rd down safety cushion. They will have to pay attention to him with a corner and safety, and that will give 3 guys opportunities to get good looks on 3rd and long.

Lynch and Turbin will benefit too. We will see other teams going nickel a lot more, taking size off the field. safeties are going to slide before or after the snap to take away a Harvin zone, killing two deep coverage. Tate and Rice are at their best when playing that single high safety, and Russell is always looking for that big play.

Another benefit: Golden Tate is also at his best after the catch. Some of these loop routes that Harvin runs on WR and smoke screens are incredible at creating space inside 5 yards. Learning these will be really good for Golden too.

 

[Largent80]

:death2: :49ersmall: :rocket:

 

[LawlessHawk]

Apparently in the San Francisco Bay Area ever since the start of free agency prescriptions and sales for Cialis and Viagra have sky rocketed....

 

[Hawks46]

I was actually thinking about how fun it will be to watch Tate and Harvin on the field at the same time. Both are incredible after the catch (Tate isn't as explosive but I think he's shiftier) and don't go down easily. I don't know about Harvin, but Tate is also a fierce downfield blocker so I can see both of these guys blocking for eachother in space as well.

 

[Sarlacc83]

Chills. What Scotte said about the SF D-Line standing up makes sense. There's going to be a huge effort to try and get in Russell Wilson's line of sight where it comes to the cross patterns and wheel routes which will expose any D-line to our offense and slow down the pass rush. This ought to give Wilson a lot of extra time to improvise. I also expect us to take advantage of that by having Harvin 'come' back to the ball in the space cleared by the 'wide outs'.

 

[loafoftatupu]

Another benefit: Golden Tate is also at his best after the catch. Some of these loop routes that Harvin runs on WR and smoke screens are incredible at creating space inside 5 yards. Learning these will be really good for Golden too.

Aside from being astonished from the trade, this was the first thing that came to mind. It is truly going to benefit the entire offense. The best part is that Tate is still improving. Wait, that's not the best part because I think Harvin will even improve in this offense and that is just scary good.

What a great move, especially with SF having some interest. If they were to land Harvin, that would have been a setback in the Hawks chances to win the division no doubt.