After exiting last year’s playoffs with a bitter taste in their mouth, the Seahawks’ defense needed to make this year different. Taking their foot off the gas and surrendering points late in the game was not an option. Instead, the …

Game Info:

Location: Century Link Field

Date: Sunday, January 19th, 2014

Time: 6:30 PM ET

Weather Forecast: Partly cloudy, 50 degrees

TV: FOX

San Francisco 49ers (12-4):

Offense:

• Total YPG: 323.8 (24th)
• Pass YPG: 186.2 (30th)
• Run YPG: 137.6 (3rd)

Playoff games are truly interesting to me. Usually, I have to film almost everything that moves. This is because we have, at the most, five cinematographers filming. Playoff games give me a chance to focus completely on artistic shots. There …

NFL Matchup’s Executive Producer shares notes from his study of Championship Sunday coaching tape: Giants defense vs. 49ers offense. 

• Giants opened the game in their “big nickel” versus 49ers “12” personnel, Blackburn and Boley were the LB
• Giants matched up

It’s very easy to blame Kyle Williams for the 49ers NFC Championship defeat. Certainly, without his punt return mistakes, San Francisco had a legitimate chance to advance to Super Bowl 46.

It could be argued that the 49ers played their …

I’m guessing when you saw the title of this post you probably expected to read something about the New York Giants and New England Patriots and their Super Bowl rematch.  Don’t worry; we have two weeks to talk about that …

Eli Manning and the Giants are heading to the Super Bowl once again, after another game-winning kick by Lawrence Tynes in overtime of the NFC Championship Game.

For today’s Encore, let’s take a look back to the 2007 NFC Championship …