We rarely see a psychological angle like this in week one: Niners Statement Game

Quote Originally Posted by begginerboy:


No kidding. You don't even know what you're thinking. You think your interpretation of your thoughts are more valid because you know you?! LOL You don't know you. You only "think" you do. I don't care what they think they're thinking. I know what they're thinking/feeling, because With Scal gone, I'm the best psychological capper on this forum.

Quote Originally Posted by erjaq:

Yeah, this write-up does absolutely nothing for me. Is there anybody in the organization who has been there for all 8 losses?

Quote Originally Posted by begginerboy:

No kidding. You don't even know what you're thinking. You think your interpretation of your thoughts are more valid because you know you?! LOL You don't know you. You only "think" you do. I don't care what they think they're thinking. I know what they're thinking/feeling, because With Scal gone, I'm the best psychological capper on this forum.

Quote Originally Posted by begginerboy:



Thanks for the tip. But I already accounted for it, as have the Niners:

"God knows it's hot, I know it's hot," Lynch said on Wednesday. "I used to say a prayer every day in training camp. 'Just get me through today, and I'll be good.' That's just a fact. It's going to be (hot) so how do you deal with it? Mental toughness, physical toughness. We've prepared these guys for it."

How is the coaching staff preparing their players for the heat? A steam tent popped up next to the practice fields at the 49ers facility. It's a custom sauna where temperatures can get up to 110 degrees inside.
The 49ers also closed the doors and raised the temperature in the weight room, helping players acclimate to the warmer weather before traveling to the East Coast.

"That's probably as close as it can get to feeling like Tampa, except for the sun being on you," linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair, who grew up in Tampa, told Matt Barrows of The Athletic.

Head coach Kyle Shanahan knows about the Tampa heat. He spent two seasons (2004–2005) as an assistant with the Buccaneers — his first NFL job.
"I coached in Tampa when I started my career, so I know how big of an advantage that was for us early in the year," Shanahan told reporters on Wednesday. "Been in a lot of humid places to begin and it is tough for guys if they aren't prepared for it [...] You've got to be mindful of it.

"You've got to make sure that you don't just start hydrating when you get to Florida and realize how humid it is. That starts Monday, and you've got to do that for a full week which will help, and you just hope that you're hydrated and that you prepared the right way.

"I know we have a team who has prepared the right way. I feel we're very well-conditioned. We'll keep trying to stuff water down their throats for the next week and after that, and then I don't want to talk about it. It's going to be hot. It's not going to be fun."

Are there any tips Lynch might have on how to deal with the Florida heat?

"Learn to love to be miserable," Lynch responded.

Quote Originally Posted by begginerboy:

The 49ers did not win a road game last year! The 49ers lost to the Bucks on the road last year 27-9, in one of their worst performances of the year. The 49ers have not beaten Bruce Arians since Harbaugh left: losing the last 8. That's the bad news. The good news (besides the fact that this not an early start game on the East Coast) is that all those facts I just mentioned will be huge motivating/psychological factors for a 49er team that is much improved from last year--especially on the defensive end. The 49ers know that if they are going to contend this year they have to win on the road, and what better way to do that than winning the first game on the road against a team that beat them last year and a coach who has beaten them 8 straight. There is no look-ahead (they play the Bungles next week) or overlooking this Tampa team. This game (i.e., their first road test) is all the 49ers are thinking about and have been thinking about since last year. This is, in many ways, a statement game, but not the kind we usually think of. This is a statement the 49ers are making to themselves. A statement that says: we are not last year's team, we are not going to lose for the 9th straight time on the road, and the 9th straight time to Bruce Arians, we will be contenders, we will win the games we are supposed to win, and we will begin this process by burying the putrid Bucks on the road. The Play: The Niners pickem