It’s funny to hear the noise coming out of New York about how “we are not going to be denied at this point” according to Antre Rolle. Much is made of their winning 3 of their last 4 just to REACH the playoffs. And their wins over Atlanta and now GB in the WC and divisional rounds to reach the NFC Championship game. Beyond the fact that the refs did all they could to GET GB the win, the Giants prevailed over a distracted and very out of synch Green Bay team. Whether because of Rodgers taking 3 weeks off, or the tragedy that befell them, Green Bay looked unprepared and out of sorts. They dropped a ton of passes all day, and add the Hail Mary TD to close the 1st half, and GB was in trouble. And much is made of the ‘businesslike’ atmosphere surrounding the win. There was no jubiliation on the plane ride home. Just watching game film of the Niner win.
“We’re just white hot,” said Giants punter Steve Weatherford, who went to the past two A.F.C. championship games as a member of the Jets. “Now it’s less about the playoff run. It’s more about winning the Super Bowl now.”
The punter? Really? Sure. For all the talk of the Giants being hot, what of the Niners? Winners of 4 in a row, 5 of their last 6, and 14 of their last 17 games? Much will be made this week of what the Giants have overcome. Yippee. Bring it on. Ignore the 49ers. Again. The east coast media will buy into this hook, line, and sinker. Much like all the Brees talk before Saturday, there was no reason to play the game. The results were ordained. Until they weren’t.
Speaking of comparisons, it’s fairly easy to compare this team to the 2010 San Francisco Giants. A team the Giants fans thought would be very tough to beat if they could just GET into the playoffs. Well, they did, and they ran the table. This 49er team is also built for the playoffs. They are strong in every phase of the game. Especially defense. For all the yards NO got, the Niners shut down their offense for large stretches of game. The special teams group was nothing short of spectacular lat Saturday. The offense? Well, 2 game saving TDs in the last 2:11 won the game. Something that had never been done before.
The point being, much will be made of the determination of the Giants. I don’t think that comes close to standing up to the overall dominance of the 49ers. I thought the Niners would win last week going away. I think THIS one is the easier win. The fact remains, New York doesn’t run well. Eli can be pressured into making mistakes. The Niners just need to take care of the blocking up front. I think the Niners come out running. Gore didn’t play much in the previous game, and I think he wears down a Giants team that will have little answer to his slashing runs. With the run game clicking, the Niners go to play-action. If they can draw the LBs up to take the double-teams off of VD, then he could have another big game. The Giants did contain him most of their previous matchup, though he did get loose on a 31 yard TD. I would LOVE to see some fly pattern action with KW. Maybe even Swain. The little white dude is FAST, and the non-PI-call on his go-route could have been a game-changer. The point being, the Niners, as Merrill Hodge has pointed out, are the best team in the playoffs based on all facets of their play.
So, I’m going with the same score this week as I did with last week. 31-20, Niners.
Forty Niners Forever 
Phil, if you haven’t already outed yourself as an Internet nut just STFU already. You are clearly a legit Niner fan. Use the booze excuse and get back to blogging about this team you clearly love as much as the rest of us
Flavor did you get another speed dial distress call from The evil twin? Funny how ya show up to triangulate with your buddy when he can’t handle being wrong. “On the laws of my country” . This has happened more than once around here.so the obvious inference is after an hour or so of losing the discussion suddenly you show up to express your support… I’m not buying the triangulation game so will discount all yer manipulative comment so far today.
Yeah twin’s the fucking victim, uh huh.
As far as the red zone rankings go, I can only extrapolate that the Niners must be around the top 6 or 8. They were 29th in red zone TDs, but were 11th in scoring. They led the league in FGs. 66% of which were kicked in the red zone.
Sorry, no solid numbers witout a TON of calculating that I’d never get paid for.
I would, however, do it for $75.00 an hour.
Blah Blah Blah- actual dialog engaged in everyday by everybody..
A comedian said this (John Oliver of the Daily Show), not me, but if we’re deleting, this is a good one:
JOHN OLIVER: If I was in a room with Tim Tebow and bin Laden and I had a gun with one bullet in it, I’d shoot bin Laden. I’m not a monster. But if I had two bullets, I’d shoot Tim Tebow first!”
Chuck will never ever cross his evil twin now will he?
I find that shocking and only repeat it in the hopes that people recognize that kind of talk for what it is:
really fucking funny..
Sure you do since you are quite clear that chuck won’t stop yer provoking and abusing. Nice little triangular world you live fellas.
I said last week WTF NOT for the Niners to win over the Saints.
I repeat again here, the Niners over the Giants to go to the Super Bowl? WTF NOT?…
http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcwest
East Coast media via Dan Graziano on Sando’s NFC West Blog sez; Why Not?
-The Giants’ defense always feeds off its pass rush, and surely Smith will see much more pressure than he saw Saturday against the Saints
-The Giants are so much healthier on defense this time around
-Beating the 49ers requires striking through the air.
-…the 49ers either lost or barely won when opponents averaged 7.0 yards per called pass play and/or completed 65 percent of their throws. Manning hit those marks almost exactly the last time.
-The 49ers’ pass protection is a concern
-…the most important thing he Jim H) can do is make sure no 49ers think they know anything about the Giants based on the Week 10 game. Because this Giants team bears almost no resemblance to that one.
-. I think the game comes down to turnovers.
Sando and Graziano both had plenty to say positive about the 49ers: Sando:
-The 49ers have committed only one turnover since Week 12. Some might say that makes them due. I’m more inclined to say it makes them dangerous.
Lazarus sent out his distress signal and Flavor and chuck show up to support the liitle guy, happens every time. THAT is the dynamic working here. Laz/evil twin knows chuck will never cross him and that Flavor will always support him. SO he’s the biggest dickwad on the blog because of this alliance = fixed game.
Wow. Paranoia, anyone? Phil, you’re just a distasteful worm. The only dynamic working here is that you’ve exposed yourself as a possibly dangerous wacko . Thank goodness you’ve already been expelled from our country. As you’ve found out, your kind is not tolerated here and never will be. Now don’t you have some pig’s eyes to poke out for dinner?
Chuck asked: @ 8:14 PM
My dear Phil,
I do not understand yer motivation for rambling on about stuff like Tebow, etc. What could it possibly be?
Guess we’ll never know LOL chuck since ya deleted the rest of my freakin; post, now will we.?
Phil if you haven’t noticed, I deleted a bunch of Twin’s posts as well. So, shut the fuck up about favoritism.
This is about the 49ers, not about the political leanings of you guys. I could give a rat’s ass. Keep it up and I’ll keep editing them.
Then clear the rest of his bullshit, mine too, I don’t have a right wing agenda that needs airing. And if I hear anymore hate speech from him or his crony, I’ll take a look some of the tools still at my disposal.
Not that I’d do such a thing- but one of my software tools can remotely wipe out the partition on a hard drive- without a partition- all data is gone. Only an evil twin would do such a thing, fortunately, I am not evil..
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Chuck ready to push the delete button? News at Eleven. Go NINERS!
So Phil has taken Doomins place as the antagonist of the blog, first we had V, and Spit. Dennis is a lesser evil of those two. So where does Phil fit in?? less than the first two but more than Dennis or less than Dennis. Only time will tell. As far as TF goes, knowlegeable guy, not always right but who is. He can be a bit crotchety at times but for the most part an entertaining dude.
Yeah, he’s fried, now ya gotta listen to this? May God Have Mercy on Yer Soul!
And on twin’s…