Silver: Pilloried or praised, 49ers coordinator Steve Wilks stays above the fray (paywall)
“With Jalen, we knew he was very effective in stepping up into those A and B gaps,” Wilks said, “and we couldn’t give him those. We felt like if we could get him to get outside the pocket, with our speed we could run him down. What a lot of people haven’t talked about is the back end; they covered their ass off. That’s really the key to it all, being able to have sticky coverage when he starts to (move) — we call it ‘plaster.