Be Afraid: The 49ers Are Coming

[Pandion Haliaetus]

The toughest opponent they've had in the last 5 games was Arizona, and that game was played in San Francisco. I'm sure their DVOA went up today, but going into this game it was only +16% for the season, tied with the Carolina Panthers. Seattle is at +34%, second in the NFL.

I've thought all along that SF was a 12-4 team, but only because of their schedule. I think they get beat handily in New Orleans, and I think Seattle kicks their butts in the rematch as well. They'll win all the rest of their games. They are masters of beating bad teams, but have looked very beatable against top competition. In a lot of ways, they remind me of the 2012 Texans. Still have to respect them because of the schedule inequality and because they are more consistent week to week than Seattle is, but Seattle is a better team, and it's not even that close right now.

Well if SF sucks so bad who have you beaten? Seems to me the only team Seattle has beaten with a winning record is SF, who apparently sucks but only has a good record because they play crappy teams.

Bro, I mean c'mon... seriously... honestly... duuuuuuuuuuude....

Seahawks beat:

0-0 Panthers team @ Carolina in a 10 a.m. start in 90+ heat and humidity. Say what you want about only scoring 12 points but the Panther's D is top 5 in the NFL. Not only do they have a killer front 7 but statistically they have one of the best secondaries this year.

1-0 49ers team @ Seattle on SNF. This was supposed to be payback for 42-13 but the 49ers lost 29-3 and the Seahawks left points on the board running the clock out in scoring position.

0-3 Jaguars team @ Seattle. Not much to say but this could have been a bigger blow out had Wilson not gave the Jaguars an easy 7 points off a turnover. After that play, Seahawks pretty much benched half their starters.

2-1 Texans team @ Houston in a 10 am start in 95 degrees of heat and humidity. Seahawks were without 4/6th of their best players on the O-line. Seahawks let the game get away from them in the 2nd QTR but held the Texans in check with goose eggs. Texans were also playing their best ball trying to bounce back off a thrashing they took in Baltimore. But with a little luck and a little skill plus a lot of moxie Seahawks overcame adversity and won a game they probably should have lost.

3-2 Titans team @ Seattle. This game is much closer than it looks because a 10 swing off a fumble from the backup holder. That doesn't happen every day... without it Seahawks win comfortably at 23-6.

3-3 Cardinals team @ Arizona. University of Phoenix as always been bugaboo for the Seahawks. A tough place to win. It didn't help it was also a Thursday night game sandwhiched as the 3rd road game of 4 total during a 5week span. Seahawks handled business and if it weren't for a couple of Wilson fumbles that gave the Cards access to 10 easy points... this game isn't close.

Seahawks lost:

to a 3-1 Colts team @ Indy. Another 10 am start, 2nd in a row. 2nd straight week without 4/6th of the O-line. And the Seahawks controlled much of this game and beat themselves with mental mistakes more than the Colts dominated the Seahawks. Cuz that didn't happen and the Colts also got tremendous help from the Refs that helped put them in lead. Like the Houston game but opposite, Seahawks gave away a game they should have won. Yet this lost still showed the Seahawks are capable of playing on the road vs a quality team and still be able to compete despite shooting themselves in the foot and getting jobbed by the refs on blatant occasions. Seahawks lost this game by 6. What happened to the 49ers in San Fran vs the Colts? Wasn't it like 27-7.

The 49ers loss differential in this season alone at 46 points is still more than the total differential of Seahawks losses dating back to the 2nd half of 2011. During that period, Seahawks lost 10 times by a total of only 43 points. Remember, this is a Seahawks team that is and was inexperienced, young, and relying on significant contributions by its youth compared to the 49ers teams.

In 2013, Seahawks aren't just getting scrub teams as the Seahawks only played 1 team that had a losing record at the time we played them. Most teams in the NFL wouldn't be 6-1 right now facing our schedule the way it was laid out plus our injury situation that took an average O-line and made it exceptionally worse. However, the fact still remains that most teams have had it "easier" in terms of schedule/injuries and yet aren't sitting at 6-1 on top of the NFC.

 

[Sports Hernia]

you posted the quotes correct? i wrote that in response to the OP, whether they were your quotes or not?

So you're responding to someone who won't read this comment section but putting the quotes of his article on me, the OP. Thats just dumb. If you have something to say to the writer go to the link.

I challenge you to read the article for once and respond to the article. Get it smart guy?

Uh Oh, ninnies troll temper tantrum in 3.....2.......1...........

Good call. We both root for the Seahawks.

I'm starting to wonder if people on this board like to discuss or just troll. For all the people who write how 49er fans troll this "NFL Board" I think the Seahawks fans troll more. Look at the very first page. Dummies putting GIF's and pictures of animals. Its an attitude of arrogance and lack of ability to actually read an article and discuss it like a knowledgeable fan.

You do???????? Hard to tell reading from your posts. Are you sure you are not a ninnies fan pretending to be a Hawks fan? My trollDAR is going off big time when I read your posts and it's usually spot on.

 

[Largent80]

Dummies putting GIF's and pictures of animals.

Hey twatwaffle wannabe, guess what?....You haven't been around here long enough to even know that when so many redundant threads happen on the same subject, this is how some of us respond. The last thing we need on this board is more people like you that try to tell someone how to post that is entirely within the rules of the board.

Cram it. And this is for you...

 

[hawker84]

you posted the quotes correct? i wrote that in response to the OP, whether they were your quotes or not?

So you're responding to someone who won't read this comment section but putting the quotes of his article on me, the OP. Thats just dumb. If you have something to say to the writer go to the link.

I challenge you to read the article for once and respond to the article. Get it smart guy?

you do realize OP stands for original post as well as original poster right? in other words i was responding to the quotes, not to the poster (you). Stop being so defensive...

 

[hawker84]

Dummies putting GIF's and pictures of animals.

Hey twatwaffle wannabe, guess what?....You haven't been around here long enough to even know that when so many redundant threads happen on the same subject, this is how some of us respond. The last thing we need on this board is more people like you that try to tell someone how to post that is entirely within the rules of the board.

Cram it. And this is for you...

this times 100... getting butthurt because people don't see things the way you do, is a waste of time, i read the article, and don't care, i responded to the quotes you posted, what's the problem, you're angry because i didn't respond to the article? get over dude...

 

[Gap Filler]

Hey twatwaffle wannabe, guess what?....You haven't been around here long enough to even know that when so many redundant threads happen on the same subject, this is how some of us respond. The last thing we need on this board is more people like you that try to tell someone how to post that is entirely within the rules of the board.

Cram it. And this is for you...

this times 100... getting butthurt because people don't see things the way you do, is a waste of time, i read the article, and don't care, i responded to the quotes you posted, what's the problem, you're angry because i didn't respond to the article? get over dude...

Twatwaffle is exactly what dummies use in smack talk. And hawker84, any time you're in agreement with Largent80 you are doing it wrong. He's a running joke but I bet if you ask him nice enough he'll tell you how he got 16 to 1 odds for the Seahawks to win the division. Dudes a clown

 

[Largent80]

We all know what gap fillers do while in SF.

 

[TwistedHusky]

If the 49ers were not a concern, then this would not be an 8 page thread.

The 49ers have looked better than the Seahawks in multiple games.

They easily handled Houston (who almost beat us) and manhandled the Titans. Maybe if we are healthy we are better, but since we are halfway into the season and our offensive line is still giving up more pressure than almost any in the league, it is reasonable to point out that other than the Arizona game and the game we played them (where they had only one wide receiver) they have looked better than us in almost every single game.

And I think our fans know it too, or they wouldn't so stridently deny it and it get angry/upset when anyone points it out.

My worry is that the very things we took advantage of to beat them twice (lack of a secondary and lack of WRs) will not be weaknesses when we face them next, but our weaknesses (lack of a OL, lack of consistency for the passing offense, and utter lack of TE depth) will still exist.

Right now, a neutral observer could certainly have made the case that the 49ers look better than us. But you could argue we did a better job against the Colts and you could certainly argue that we handled the Cardinals that they played even with for a while.

Either way, it won't matter what anyone thinks - only what the outcome of the game in SF is. I have my fingers crossed that we can beat them.

 

[Uncle Si]

If the 49ers were not a concern, then this would not be an 8 page thread.

The 49ers have looked better than the Seahawks in multiple games.

They easily handled Houston (who almost beat us) and manhandled the Titans. Maybe if we are healthy we are better, but since we are halfway into the season and our offensive line is still giving up more pressure than almost any in the league, it is reasonable to point out that other than the Arizona game and the game we played them (where they had only one wide receiver) they have looked better than us in almost every single game.

And I think our fans know it too, or they wouldn't so stridently deny it and it get angry/upset when anyone points it out.

My worry is that the very things we took advantage of to beat them twice (lack of a secondary and lack of WRs) will not be weaknesses when we face them next, but our weaknesses (lack of a OL, lack of consistency for the passing offense, and utter lack of TE depth) will still exist.

Right now, a neutral observer could certainly have made the case that the 49ers look better than us. But you could argue we did a better job against the Colts and you could certainly argue that we handled the Cardinals that they played even with for a while.

Either way, it won't matter what anyone thinks - only what the outcome of the game in SF is. I have my fingers crossed that we can beat them.

yeah simple rationality tells us that the two teams are almost dead even outside the first game in Seattle. the second game in SF may decide it. Both look capable of running the rest of the table.

but, because this is the internet... i truly appeciate 8 pages of irrationale trash talk over a question that has no answer outside of 6-1/5-2

 

[BlueTalon]

So you're responding to someone who won't read this comment section but putting the quotes of his article on me, the OP. Thats just dumb. If you have something to say to the writer go to the link.

I challenge you to read the article for once and respond to the article. Get it smart guy?

I'm starting to wonder if people on this board like to discuss or just troll. For all the people who write how 49er fans troll this "NFL Board" I think the Seahawks fans troll more. Look at the very first page. Dummies putting GIF's and pictures of animals. Its an attitude of arrogance and lack of ability to actually read an article and discuss it like a knowledgeable fan.

Perhaps if you had actually written some of your own thoughts in that opening post, people wouldn't assume you just posted those quotes because they represented your thoughts.

Don't blast at other people being too lazy to read an article and discuss it, when you were too lazy to actually start the discussion yourself.

 

[Comeinpeace]

Perhaps if you had actually written some of your own thoughts in that opening post, people wouldn't assume you just posted those quotes because they represented your thoughts.

Don't blast at other people being too lazy to read an article and discuss it, when you were too lazy to actually start the discussion yourself.

He linked the article to get a discussion going. I think it worked.

 

[BlueTalon]

Perhaps if you had actually written some of your own thoughts in that opening post, people wouldn't assume you just posted those quotes because they represented your thoughts.

Don't blast at other people being too lazy to read an article and discuss it, when you were too lazy to actually start the discussion yourself.

He linked the article to get a discussion going. I think it worked.

And yet he has spent most of the thread complaining about it...

 

[Largent80]

This guy joined the site this year, the day of the SF game, and he knows me well enough to call me a running joke.

Incredible fore and hindsight for a person that doesn't even know me and is butthurt that I posted squirrels in his beloved thread. Remarkable.

 

[BlueTalon]

Aw hell...

 

[Laloosh]

My dog loves to chase squirrels.

 

[jhawk91]

I had to add my own squirly contribution to this awesome thread

 

[Laloosh]

Sing along with me...
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[Hawks46]

I thought it was spot on.

While Seattle is picking up the slack created by awful O-line play, San Fran's O-line is picking up the slack created by a depleted WR corps. San Fran is playing the most physical brand of offense in the league right now.

It's spot on, but I find Shrager to be dramatic. It's patently funny how he puts the Seahawks in a negative light due to all the media attention (dude can't use actual facts like we have one of the highest points differentials in the league) to insinuate we're a paper tiger. Shrager has taken a contrary stand to Seattle this year to counterbalance all of the other media love (I can't totally blame him, I tend to be contrarian of the general opinion is debatable and the landslide majority goes one way).

I also find it ironic that almost all of the media analysis I saw in preseason gave the Seahawks a ton of positive hype, but also said "to be the best, you have to beat the best, and that's SF in that division. Until the Hawks beat the Niners, it's the Niners division." Well, we've beaten them soundly the last 2 times, and they barely beat us down there at the beginning of last season. I still think it's a tough game, but it's not like Seattle leads the division because the media loves us.

Also, Shrager was scarily spot on or very close to a lot of his predictions....I'm talking the scores. He did whiff on the Bucs and Panthers though......the Panthers are finally getting some love....about time. That's a quality team there.

 

[Sports Hernia]

I'm disappointed there hasn't been any pics of the waterskiing squirrel yet.

 

[Largent80]

I aim to please. Only with pics of course.