The Dreaded Marco Wrote:
Yail Bloor Wrote:
The Dreaded Marco Wrote:
I think Seattle improved quite a bit more at more important positions (QB, D Line) than SF did---is it enough to overtake them for the division? Probably not this year, but it wouldn't completely surprise me.
I like Russell Wilson a lot but I've got to bet against a 5'10 rookie in a (my opinion) shaky offense. No offense, Doc, Seattle is about a 7-9 IMHO.
P.S. San Fran didn't need to necessarily improve with player pickups insomuch as protect their assets and they did--same defense and a few additions on offense plus a full offseason with a good coach.
I agree that SF is still the division favorite. I was just replying to Loog's suggestion that the addition of Randy Moss makes them all that much better in comparison to what Seattle did.
And if they can go 7-9 with an injured Tarvaris Jackson at QB then I like their chances of improving on that with either Wilson or Flynn starting. Not to mention an improved/healthy O line and receiving corps and a still very solid running game. And their defense is very good. If Wilson (or Flynn) flails, another 7-9 season sounds about right. I think they'll be better at QB and will win 9 or 10 games.
Chris, The shakiest part of the Seattle offense last year was Tavaris Jackson - He did better than I might have expected him to, but here are no less than 5 games (including the game against the Falcons) where we put the ball in Jackson's hands with time on the clock to run the two minute offense and he couldn't get it done or recognize a blitz and hit a hot route. Even if he'd only won 2 of those games we would have been 9-7 last year. Wilson may be shorter, but he's shown to be nails under pressure.
As far as the schedule, I'll agree and admit that it looks tough, but you should know as well as anyone that it is absolutely FOOLISH to assign wins and losses on September 2nd. Almost any of those teams on the schedule could be in big trouble if they had a big player go down and that happens to teams EVERY year. Also, there's a few games like the Bears game where you are probably assigning a L, when you may not realize that Seattle has gone to Chicago twice in the past two seasons and beat the Bears (doesn't mean we will necessarily do it this year, but obviously there is a precedent for it).
As far as SF is concerned - they are a great defense, and are the team to beat in the division, but a lot of things came together perfectly for them last year. They led the league with a +28 turnover ratio, were relatively healthy and won 7 of games by 7 points or less. These sorts of things are not necessarily sustainable from year to year, so it is likely that SF will come back down to earth a bit more this year.......Finally as far as the 49er's receivers are concerned - someone else put it a lot better than me recently:
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This year's wide receiver corps includes the me-first Randy Moss, the me-first Michael Crabtree, me-first top draft choice A.J. Jenkins and Mario Manningham, who left the Giants because he wasn't getting the ball enough. What could possibly go wrong?
Oh and el_scorcho and jewels, Fuck Trent Cole in his cheap shot-ing pectoral muscle-tearing ass - Hope he gets his this year. (In case you don't remember what I'm referring to):
http://www.nfl.com/videos/philadelphia- ... draws-fine
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