Color me unimpressed, but the 10-1 Eagles have been dodging bullets left and right. Dallas would have beaten them but for Dak’s big toe OB on the 2 yard line, KC dropped 10 passes in their loss to the Iggles, Buffalo (Cook) dropped a TD early and backed themselves out of FG range among the billion penalties called against Buffalo. Throw in the wide open pass that Allen missed in OT that would have won the game, and there you go.
Most of their games this season have been a struggle. Shit, Buffalo put up 505 yards on them yesterday. They barely beat the Vikings, the Jets, the Pats, and the Commies, all one-score wins, to go with the sure-fire bullets they dodged.
What does it mean? Nothing really. But it shows a pattern of their not being able to put teams away. But, the big but is, they’ve won 4 games in a row when trailing at the half. Seeing as we sometimes have a struggle putting teams away ourselves, this could be an issue.
Throw in the abject homerism displayed by the refs yesterday, and it could get weird. There were like 3 blatant PIs and that completely ignored roughing the passer call on Philly’s defense that were let go, while Buffalo was tagged with 11 penalties for ticky tack shit. The team needs to inform Dre Greenlaw not to do anything borderline, because the flags will be flying.
We of course had our bit of struggle in our 3 game losing streak, but we hopefully have gotten over that.
If the team can play solid without turnovers (in the wet weather), and avoid the flag-fest, I like us to take them semi-comfortably. Something like 31-20. May not be enough to take the #1 spot now, but it’ll be a step closer to it to get this win.
Forty Niners Forever 
Shanahan just does not have a backup plan for when the Niners are behind
They’ve had some 3rd quarter comebacks, including Seattle in the playoffs last year, but Shanny is skunked in the 4th quarter.
I go back to the NFCCG against the Rams when the 49ers held the ball for 49 seconds in the entire 4th quarter after deciding to punt on 4th and 1 on the around the 50. For whatever reason, he has no feel for putting games away and for late comebacks.
Look at the fuckng TB game. In the 4th quarter the 49ers had one 1st down, 3 punts and a turnover on downs. TB got the ball into the red zone 3 times late but the defense got a stop on downs, forced a FG and got the pick in the end zone.
Seattle had the 3rd quarter stall-out. For as good as he appears to be, he sometimes just seems to forget everything. And the D struggles as well when the offense can’t stay on the field.
Kinda funky that both Seattle and Dallas play back-to-back Thursday night games as they face off tomorrow.
I’d totally go with Seattle covering the 9.5 spread if not outright winning.
Deebo is fueling the rematch hype with Philly CB James Bradberry.
This game is going to be a head-banger by the looks of it.
Trash talk and 9ers favored by 2.5.
Never like dealing with a home dog.
Forgot the link…duh
https://www.49erswebzone.com/articles/174961-eagles-bradberry-responds-samuel-calling/
Philly has the 28th-best pass defense. And 29th in points allowed through the air.
Buffalo is a solid offense and they out up 505 yards on them. Including 173 on the ground.
They ARE trash. Keep Purdy clean and we should be able to run the score up on these guys.
I think the forecast is for heavy rain so it will probably be mostly a short pass ground game for the most part. Which is probably good for us anyway. I read somewhere that Purdy’s record in the rain isn’t so good.
All I’m seeing is showers with a 50% chance of rain. We are 4:25 local time.
Buffalo passed for 340 yards in last week’s monsoon. Play the game.
New thread is up. Don;t think we alter things too much.
As usual, turnovers are the battle to be won.