Although the 49ers defense this season is not ranked particularly high (they have been flirting around the number 20 mark for most of the season), Mora has done wonders with a defense that has very little depth. Most notably, Mora has made sure that the defense wasn’t losing games for the 49ers - and in fact they haven’t. There isn’t really a game this season that the 49ers offense wasn’t in because the defense couldn’t hold it’s own. Most recently, Mora has had the defense actually help to win games too, in limiting opponents to minimal offensive time on the field, and with an impressive nine turnovers over the past two games - ten if you include a fumble recovery on special teams, and really that’s what everyone has been expecting all along.

Sure it took Mora a little while to get his side of the team up to the level they are at now, but now that there is some talent on the roster, we see that he really knows what he is doing. Constantly mixing up coverages and schemes, Mora is doing quite fine. Sure there is room for improvement, like in his blitz packages that have been rather ineffective, but the team would also benefit from a play maker in the front seven making plays, and so far Julian Peterson and Andre Carter - even Bryant Young haven’t been making those big plays.