If Peppers is done, then we're really going to need to be injury free and see some big development from some of our young guys.
It's crazy talk that we can't beat Seattle, twice... I hope we go in there on opening NFL night and whip the &%$( out of them. I want to be the #1 seed and winning at Seattle is a great way to kick off that pursuit.
SF does have our number...we had theirs for years. It is really something that we only lost by 3 to them last year. Our D had almost nobody left on it, and if Hyde can make that play we're likely going to Carolina to beatdown a very overrated Panthers team. I think we would've lost at Seattle, but who knows? If SF was consistently whipping us, which they aren't but did in 2012, I think we can overtake them this season. Aldon Smith is a big distraction and he may be serving a pretty big suspension. Justin Smith is 35. Bowman is coming off a terrible knee injury and Willis has been beat up a bit. Not a surprise they picked up some ILB's in this draft. Aaron needs to get over whatever it is he has against these guys. I know they were his favorite team growing up and he wished like crazy they would've drafted him but he has to play better against them. Kaepernick doesn't seem to have any issues against us but, then again, he has to go against the much easier D. Niners are kind of like our Pistons, but we've already won one, so that doesn't hold. Still, they seem to be the team more than Seattle we have to figure out.
I think we can do both this season if injury free.
Ted Thompson sits on his hands per former GM: "because they’ve had 25 fricking years of great quarterbacks. Of course it works. Try it without a special quarterback."