At the beginning of the season, there were very few prognosticators touting the greatness of the Jaguars. Shit, even local boy ROB!!! didn’t really think the Jags were all that. Most predicted a 7-9 record as their best-case scenario. And the rest were saying 4-12. Thing is, the Jags have had 5 games vs teams with winning records. Baltimore (44-7 win), Pittsburgh (30-9 win); Tenn (37-16 loss), LA Rams (27-7 loss), and Seattle (30-24 win). Not too shabby till you see that they lost to the Jets and the Cards amid their wins over shit teams like Cinn, Cleve, Hou, and Indy. They have us and Tenn, so that’s a grand total of 6 games vs winning teams. And Tenn may not even finish with a winning record, which would knock that down to 4 games.
Blake Bortles is doing his best Alex Smith impression by being conservative and not turning the ball over amid the 250 yard passing days, and the running of Leonard Fournette. And, of course, their epic defense. They are #1 in points allowed, turnovers, and sacks. Sounds like a pretty imposing thing, but then again, they have feasted on the bottom-feeders of the NFL, mainly their compadres in the AFC South.
Thing is, this could very well be the 49ers next year. We could be the surprise team that takes the league by storm. The 49ers have a weak last-place schedule in 2018, and this favors us immensely going forward. As it did for Jacksonville this season. The 49ers this season play 10 games vs winning teams, but that will change dramatically next year.
Glancing at the sched,
- HOME: CHI, DEN, DET, OAK, NYG, AZ, LAR, SEA
- AWAY: GB, KC, LAC, MIN, TB, AZ, LAR, SEA
and we see 2 home games vs teams with winning records (LAR, Sea), and 4 road games vs teams with winning records (KC, LAR, Sea, Minn). Granted, this is a fluid situation as GB looks to be better with Aaron Rodgers back, but really, AZ is on a downward spiral, and Seattle may very well follow them down. The Rams are the team to beat now, but the Giants, Denver, Detroit, LAC, TB, Oak, and AZ should all be wins. Take one from Sea and that’s 9 wins right there.
10 wins is a possibility, but 9-7 seems pretty achievable.
Forty Niners Forever 
At some point in the Hou game they showed Hopkins holding a football and his hand wrapped about 3/4 of the way around the middle of it. He’s got enormous hands. With Jimmy G he could be up there with the best.
I’ve always liked Davante Adams. He, with Garcon and Goodwin would be a nice set of WRs. Taylor and Bourne can back up.
Not sure who the FA WR’s are this upcoming off-season but I bet the Niners will be a very attractive destination since we will be running KS’s system and have Jimmy G pulling the trigger.
Absolutely. Given the crapshoot it is drafting receivers, I’d think the best option for the Niners would bringing in a top flight FA.
Well, the top 3 are Terrelle Pryor Sr., Alshon Jeffery, and Sammy Watkins. Watkins brings the most baggage as an underachieving prima donna, but he has the biggest upside as well. He’s tweeting about his lack of production in LA now that he tweeted himself out of Buffalo.
This extensive list is from Spotrac:
http://www.spotrac.com/nfl/free-agents/wide-receiver/
That is a great list, most of those guys are gonna be re-signed. I would love to get a shot at Allen Robinson but White from Chicago is interesting too. Richardson from seattle is a hell of a player also. You know GB is gonna re-sign Adams.
That was Wright not White from Chicago.
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