Antrel Rolle says his team can only beat themselves, the 49ers certainly can’t. Hakeem Nicks says the Saints would have been a more difficult opponent, and plenty of the Giants say they are ‘relieved’ that the 49ers beat the Saints last Saturday. That this is the easier road to the Super Bowl. I guess this sort of makes sense, as the Saints beat the Giants 49-24, and the 49ers ‘only’ beat them 27-20. The only thing I’ve heard from the 49ers is that Anthony Davis rhetorically asked via Twitter, “Are the Giants doing drunk interviews?” Funny stuff. Talk happens, but even the wonks at ESPN buy into the whole Giants-are-going-to-win deal wholeheartedly. There’s having confidence, and then there’s smug arrogance. It’ll be a pleasure to smack the smug off their faces.
The thing that matters more to me is that the Niners beat them once already. They can certainly beat them again. Sure, the Giants are hot. They’ve won 4 in a row. Then again, so have the 49ers. Eli Manning considers himself ‘elite’? Well, good for him. The Giants think this’ll be easy? Nevermind the 7 RBs we’ve shelved this season? The latest being Pierre Thomas fumbling and getting knocked cold by Donte Whitner on the 3 yard line early in Saints game. Nevermind the #1 hardest team to score against in the NFC this season? 38 takewaways?
The other thing about this game is that Frank Gore was hobbled in the 1st meeting, and had 6 carries for 6 yards. I think the Niners will have much greater success running the ball this time around. There’s talk that the weather will be less than ideal. If so, this also plays into the Niners hands as I don’t think the Giants will be very successful running this game. Without Gore, the Niners only rushed for 77 yards. The Giants? 93. I’m not saying this game will be easy, but I think this game WILL be easier than the Saints game. Aldon Smith has come a ways since the Giants game, and Justin Smith is on fire. I see the Niners getting 3+ sacks and a lot of hurries on Manning.
Forty Niners Forever 
Phil– you went a little bezerko last night– for some reason, me acknowledging that sent you down a path of paranoia and general weirdness about “the 3 of us” being “in on it” (whatever that was). The blog world’s a trip, normal people can go a long time rollin’ with normal before crazy takes over.
Anyway, if you were drunk or just having a bad day it’s always good to cop to that and just move on to the important business of kicking the shit out of the Giants this weekend.
If you can’t do that, I understand and wish you well. I always appreciated you coordinating all of the week’s picks from everyone into one post.
And to be clear, we’ve all had a night of blogging that we regret the next day. The key is to cop to it and, ya know, slide back into the “box of normality and sanity” that all of us have to live in (or pretend to) 🙂 🙂
And it’s lunch time where you live so I know you’re reading this….
Lol Flavor..
If Phil wants to be done with the feud, I’m agreeable to that . Time to put our cosmic energy into a victory Sunday..
yes.
Yeah I’m good. Niners gonna need all the cosmic energy we got. let’s not waste any!
Twin i have to go with Jackie Smith as the biggest SB goat of alltime.3rd and goal from the 10 yard line against the Steelers ,he’s WIDE OPEN and Staubach even throws a nice easy lollipop that even you could catch, but nooooooo right through his chest, sure he just wanted to crawl in a hole and die especially with countless numbers of replays.Hey Jackie Smith want to get away, Fly Southwest!!!!!
ESPN has Norwood as 1 and that’s fucking ridiculous . A 30 yarder, sure..but 47 just wide, he’s received way too much shit over the years.
The Bill Buckner of football . . .
Except Buckner’s was an easy play.
I don’t think Chuck would mind if I posted this here. A must see for any Niners fan.
Enjoy! Cheers.
Really great stuff Chico.’….Anytime to relive the dominance of the Niners is always special.Love the Music(Remember the Titans) it’s gettin me even more “FiredUp” for this game Sunday.
outstanding
Thank You!
I wish the Niners well against the Giants. And all of you as well….hope we win.
Flavor: Naw I see the dynamics at work here so don’t regret anything. I’ll follow along during the big game and chirp in when we do good.
Last word: Beat them MF Giants to a freakin’ pulp!
PS: Only reason I’m posting at this re-dickless-hour is because it’s just before f–ing dinner time! Fill my tank with wife’s good cookin; Look Out! yahaha
3oth Aniversary of the Catch and, the Franchise was founded in ’46.
Perfect time to be knocking on the SB46 door.
Harbaugh should have 2 more rabbits in the hat for us.
Guys are relaxed and confident. Let the opponents whoof all they want. They’ve had to play an extra game and log plenty of air miles.
Hope we outlast them when it matters.
Ball Security! Use our speed against them. Fly Sweep Time?
You beat me to it Chico. I was gonna post that over here. That is really cool. Love the stadium perspective. A couple friends who were there said it was pretty ugly for the Saints fans that were sitting near them. They said it was a much different vibe from the Montana/Young days.
Which sucks. I was at the 1997 NFC Championship game, and while it was a ungly rainy loss, no one was directing their anger at the Packer fans.
I guess Sports Illustrated has taken the jinx to heart. The east half of the country got a NY Giants cover, and the western half got the 49ers cover.
It appears that TO signed a contract with a Texas football team.
Indoor Football League Texas team, that is.
Yeah, the Allen Wranglers
Drew Pearson is the GM . . .
And just remember, you can’t spell eliminated without Eli.
I like that! And of course I will use it!
http://dwizzlesworld.blogspot.com/2012/01/ashkon-niners-in-paris-49ers-anthem.html
Chuck– to close comments (you have to set the number of days in a drop down) go to dashboard>settings>discussion>other comment settings—-click the button next to “automatically close comments on articles older than ___ days. “
Ahhh. Thanks, flav . . .
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