NFC Championship Game Week Thread

[Podunkparte]

if thats the joke...jokes on u..

 

[Banned 10x]

And they will still have 5 more SB trophies than the shechicks

Since you're a Duck fan you can't be more than 18 or 19 so you weren't even alive the last time the 9ers won a SB.

 

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Peter Schrager, Senior NFL Writer for FOX Sports:

I fear we’re not giving Wilson-Kaepernick Part IV its fair due this week...Wilson-Kaepernick is awesome.
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when I arrived at the 49ers team facility at 8 a.m. on Wednesday morning, Kaepernick was dripping with sweat, already an hour into a workout. Practice wasn’t set to start for another few hours. This is Kaepernick in a nutshell. Headphones on, working, grinding, sweating. Putting his energy into high leg kicks
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Wilson could be the mayor of a small town in Washington, Wisconsin, or North Carolina...I often ask questions about the young quarterbacks to the various broadcast crews on FOX, CBS, and NBC who air their games....When it comes to Wilson, they all say the same thing — you walk into a meeting with the guy wondering if he’s the real deal and you leave wondering if there’s anything he can do wrong. “I always walk away saying, ‘This guy’s too good to be true,’” one leading color commentator told me this week. “And he is. He’s the real deal.”

There’s no “Yeah, but…” with either of these guys. ... We’ve had it so good with these two the past two years. And though we don’t want to think about it while everyone’s riding high, it could really all be over before we even got to appreciate what we had. Enjoy Brady-Manning XV on Sunday, but savor Wilson-Kaepernick IV. Because, eventually, over the next three years, both men are going to have to get paid real quarterback money (and their teams won't be able to afford so much talent)

Think about ’84 AFC Championship Game, when Dan Marino reached his first AFC Championship Game in just his second NFL season. With long, flowing brown hair, a cannon for a right arm, and an incredible chemistry with receivers Mark Duper and Mark Clayton, he’s lights out in this one. Marino threw for 421 yards and 4 touchdowns in the game and punched his ticket to a Super Bowl he’d eventually lose to Joe Montana. Of course, what we didn’t know then that we know now, is that it’d be the last time Marino won a Conference Championship game. Year 2. That was it. He’d reach the semifinal round of the postseason just two more times in his career ('85 and '93)

 

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Peter Schrager, Senior NFL Writer for FOX Sports:

Seattle has an incredible front seven, paired with the most physical defensive backfield you’ll find in the NFL today. This one has all the makings of a classic and it absolutely will be. Kaepernick broke out a Superman touchdown celebration in Carolina, but Seattle’s been his Kryptonite. He’s 0-2 all-time in the Pacific Northwest with his 49ers being outscored 71-16 in those two games. But there’s something about Kaepernick this time around. Something different. Over the past two months, he’s been a different player. The 49ers have won eight straight games and the entire team continues to deflect any attention from themselves, and instead, point to their quarterback. Look for a lot more no-huddle early on, limiting the effectiveness of the 12th Man, and look for Kaepernick to break off a few early runs to set the tone. Passing the ball deep -- something he can do -- isn’t what will win this game for 49ers. It’ll be establishing the run, and in addition to Frank Gore and the running backs, I expect Kaepernick to do his part, as well.

It’s going to take a Superman effort to beat Seattle in their building, but I think this 49ers team is peaking at just the right time. I’m taking the 49ers. The Pick: 49ers 24, Seahawks 19

 

[ram29jackson]

Percy aint playin'

 

[Podunkparte]

Percy aint playin'

Well we didn't have much trouble winning without him for the bulk of the season anyway

 

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Justin Smith:

You guys have prepared for Seahawks RB Marshawn Lynch now six times, this is the seventh time. Is there anything new that you’re telling these guys or reemphasizing that they haven’t heard before?
“No. Like you said, I’ve prepared or we as coaches have prepared six or seven times, they’ve played him six or seven times. They know him and they respect him. He’s either the best or second best back in the league depending upon who you ask. He and [Vikings RB Adrian] Peterson are the two top running backs in this league.”

Can you talk a little bit more about Marshawn? What makes him, from your position as a coordinator trying to defend him, what makes him so difficult to defend?
“He’s very strong, very relentless in his running style, and yet he’s got some allusiveness to him that he can jump-cut, makes really good cuts and can jump-cut laterally, gets you a little bit off balanced, so he’s got you a little off balanced and now he turns his power on. He’s a powerful back, but yet he has the ability to get you off balanced, which now makes his power even more effective. And he’s a relentless guy. He doesn’t like to be tackled.”

When you say you’ve faced him a handful of times, what’s the number one thing you take away from those past games that you have to bring into this game?
“You’ve got to be able to tackle him. It’s going to take more than one guy. We’ve got to be great up front. We can’t let him get into the secondary unscathed because then he’s really tough on the DBs to tackle. He’s just a great back.”

Justin Smith Still One of NFL's Best D-Lineman

per ESPN Stats and Info yesterday:

"Marshawn Lynch vs 49ers this year: 0.9 yards after contact per rush against all others: 2.1"

 

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per ESPN Stats and Info yesterday:

"Kaepernick has the highest playoff QBR (since 2006) of the remaining QBs in the postseason (85)"

 

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ESPN Stats and Info:

--Of Kaepernick’s five worst games as a starter in term of Total QBR, three were against Seattle

--The biggest issue for Kaepernick in Seattle has been his performance on third down. In his two starts at CenturyLink Field, Kaepernick completed 5 of 16 passes for 35 yards and three interceptions on third down. The Seahawks defense added two sacks and their fans helped add two delay of game penalties.

 

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ESPN Stats and Info:

Lynch has three 100-yard games against the 49ers over the last three seasons. All other rushers have combined for two 100-yard games against the 49ers in 42 games.

 

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ESPN Stats and Info:

"The Seahawks’ secondary is one of the most physical in the NFL. No team has committed more defensive pass interference, defensive holding or illegal contact penalties this season. Although that could be viewed as a negative, it also indicates a lot of contact is being made on the field."

 

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Lynch has averaged 5.0 yards per rush between the guards against the 49ers since joining the Seahawks. All other running backs have averaged 3.5 yards per rush on such plays.

 

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per ESPN Stats and Info yesterday:

"Marshawn Lynch vs 49ers this year: 0.9 yards after contact per rush against all others: 2.1"

The 49ers are the only team in the league that allowed fewer than 500 rushing yards after contact this season.

 

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In his last two home games against the Seahawks, Frank Gore ran the ball 31 times for 241 yards (7.8 YPC).

Yet in his last two games in Seattle, Gore totaled 15 rushes and 44 yards (2.9 YPC)

San Francisco trailed during most of the games in Seattle, but the 49ers got away from the run quickly in each. The two games remain the highest dropback percentages for the 49ers in the Kaepernick era.

 

[RegentDenali]

Only once in 17 tries (Mike Glennon) did a quarterback not finish the game with a lower ANY/A average in Seattle than he did in games started at all other venues that year.

If you take an average of the averages, the 17 quarterbacks averaged 2.99 ANY/A in Seattle and 6.12 ANY/A in all other games that season. In other words, going to Seattle takes about half of a quarterback’s value away. That, in a word, is insane. The only non-Glennon quarterback to produce an ANY/A of over 5.9 (the league average the last two years) was Drew Brees last weekend, but that was based on some garbage time production.