OK then.  Obviously a Seahawks homer...

Funny - all I did was illustrate why the 49ers were favored in this game.  Kind of sensitive aren't you? 

Looking forward to future posts, newbie.

The first three lines of Sammy's post is some of the best knowledge or advice posted on this site. 100% true. This concept must be considered when throwing your hard earned money up. Fade yourself. SF -2.5 for me

Sure, but a Seahawks homer that does get his facts wrong.

Quote Originally Posted by Sammy_Ace:

I am getting a little tired of hearing this "Christmas comes early" talk, and that the "better team" is the play. Since when is making a bet about betting on the better team? if the better team won every Sunday, Vegas would be out of business!!

Seattle might very well be a better team, but I am siding with Harbaugh and the 49ers at Candlestick. I know these teams hate each other, and I'm not expecting this to be a trap game for Seattle. I think they will give the 49ers all they can handle. I just don't think Aldon Smith and Ahmad Brooks are going to be fooled by that read option that had the Saints looking so silly on MNF. I also think the 49ers (with their full cast of wide receivers and a healthy Vernon Davis) can expose the missing corners in Browner and Thurmond.

As for Browner and Thurdmond, counting last season, the Seahawks are now 5-0 in games played with Maxwell and Lane playing in place of Thurmond and Browner.

You can roll whatever way you like, but try to find a good reason. I haven't heard one yet. Probably best you stay out of action when you don't really know the teams involved.

You;re right to be afraid, but I genuinely think Kaep will have a good game. The Niners won't lose because of him, at any rate.

I think the motivation factor is overblown. The Saints had every reason to win last week against the Hawks. The game was far more important to them than Seattle, who had a bigger division lead and reason to believe it could get the #1 seed even with a loss, and yet the talent and coaching on the field won out. People overthink these things. Most times the better team wins, and the better team this week is Seattle. Unless you think the Seahawks really have more than a 26 point homefield advantage when they play the Niners, which is what you'd be saying if you think the 29-3 beatdown was all because of home field. Look at it this way. The Niners could be three TDs better this Sunday than they were in Week 2 and still lose by 5.

Heh, obviously I meant gets his facts right. Freudian slip?

Seriously curious about this. Who could possibly see this as a trap game for either team? Probably came into the season circling this one on a calender. If the Niners lose, they are in trouble so far as even making the playoffs and they will cede the division on their own turf. If the Hawks win, they win the division and all but wrap up HFA. The idea that either of these teams will be lacking motivation just doesn't make sense.

Hawks are on a short week, though, albeit coming off a bye. And they will have Cris Clemons and Bruce Irvin for the game, which they didn't have in Week 2, and Russell Okung for the whole game (presumably), after losing him early in the second quarter Week 2, after which Aldon Smith ate alive Paul McQuistan for two sacks and a billion hurries.

The Niners get back Manningham and Crabtree, but are probably without Iupati and Stalely may not be at full speed but will probably be good to go.

So there are some personnel differences than in Seattle, which I believe in general helps out the Niners more.

Should be a good one, with both teams wanting this badly, and I doubt the Hawks will be looking ahead to next week's big matchup with the 5-7 Giants.

People, People, PLEASE!!!!!

What do we learn time after time about tough divisional games???

Balty/ Pittsburgh - - Chicago/Detriot - - Giants/Cowboys

The spread is ALWAYS under a FG (usually 1 point - with the nod to the home team), and the game (more often than not) comes down to the last play.....

Forget arguing over skewed stats, who's played who better, blah, blah, blah....... Just TEASE the game. Tease it with something else you really like - hell, tease it BOTH WAYS.......

Just trying to save everybody's hard earned $$$$$

Good Luck All!!!!!

This one should be a slug fest between 2 teams that hate each other with very good defense's..... Under is the play for me.

Niners and the under.  On a 11-4 run in the Nfl. Titans cover too. BOL

Manningham!! Please!!!!!! 

I'm going with San Francisco....BIG!

GL