This is not a good matchup…for the 49ers

Gonzomandela01

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Being that the niners were 32nd in SOS.......could it be that they were just beating teams that weren't winning many games at all in the first place?
Yeah IDK why people come with the automatic assumption that that stat means they are so tough and physicall that the team that plays them feels the pain for 2 weeks, Young said as much in the pregame yesterday, stats are deceiving, they might just have been playing bad teams all year.

They play physicall, right, but is not as the rest of the league plays flag football?

They can be beaten, will it be hard fought? Of course, but this is playoff football, that's the way it should be.
 

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I agree in that Purdy hasn’t seen anything like our defense. But he has tons of weapons so we can’t give him time.

On offense we match up ok but Moore will need to call a perfect game. More importantly, Dak will have to play mistake free again…which will be really difficult against the team that led the NFL in picks.
 

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I agree in that Purdy hasn’t seen anything like our defense. But he has tons of weapons so we can’t give him time.

On offense we match up ok but Moore will need to call a perfect game. More importantly, Dak will have to play mistake free again…which will be really difficult against the team that led the NFL in picks.
usually takes 4-6 games to get adequate film on QBs for some tendencies.
 

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Buccs were a great matchup for us, we are a great matchup for the 49ers. We’ve got to put that aside and go through them.
 

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Drop eight in coverage and spy Purdy. lol.
Wrong... that's the wrong strategy. He'd have all day and find the check down every time.

main thing against SF is to play hard flat coverage, load the box against the run, shut down all the short stuff with CMC/Deebo etc, keep big personnel and athletic safeties in to make sure tackles near the LOS to prevent YAC (which along with the run is their entire offense) and dare Purdy to beat you deep.

Rely on your front 4 or 5 pass rushers (oscillate between 4 and 5 man rushes, but always disguise and don't make it predictable) to get consistent rush and dare Purdy to beat you deep. The deep throw is something the Niners really can't do well imo.
 

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With all of this praise the media has been heaping on them, I wonder why they'll even play the game?

The players that were on the team last meeting remember all too well how they talked before showing up and tried to intimidate them. They also remember they had the chance to win that game and the end of it was a Keystone Cops act. Coaching and players let themselves down.

I bet if you polled those coaches and players, they wouldn't have another team at the top of their list that they want to meet again more than the 49ers. This isn't just a game, it is a reckoning.

That last road playoff game the Cowboys won that McC showed the team the ten players alive at that time was more than just motivation to shut out the voices, it was a foretelling of the near future. That game would be the ghost from the past.

What happened last night changed everything. The 49ers players were watching that spanking and telling each other and themselves "that's not us, that's not our OL or DL or secondary or run game" and they are right. But, that is not the same Cowboys team they met on the field in Arlington a year ago either.

The confidence that Bucs game gave the QB, OL and offense and the entire defense could not have come at a better time in the season. That WAS game is a distant or forgotten memory and this team is as playoff ready as a Cowboys team has been in 25 years.

This Cowboys team is every bit as balanced as the 49ers and coming to town with a chip on their shoulder. And they'll leave the 49ers with their shoulders slumping.

Can't say what happens in the NFCCG but this divisional game against the 49ers is the Cowboys season, they are going to San Francisco to hand out a butt whooping and an overdue payback and it won't be pretty or Purdy.

This isn't just some football game, this is the Cowboys-49ers and this team is going to do what that team did in 93 when they played there.
“When you go up against a big gorilla, you don’t hit him lightly. You hit him with everything you got!”- Jimmy Johnson
 

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Monday gave me hope, but if there's o e thing I've learnt over the past 25 years it's that when they give you hope that's when they take it away and RIP your heart out.

In saying that I think SF is our worst matchup McCaffrey is possibly one of the best players in the league and our run D is TERRIBLE. We are lucky that Tampa abandoned the run immediately. If we have a shot at winning we have to get started hot and score points so SF abandons the run too and then we need Micah to abuse Purdy.
 

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With all of this praise the media has been heaping on them, I wonder why they'll even play the game?

The players that were on the team last meeting remember all too well how they talked before showing up and tried to intimidate them. They also remember they had the chance to win that game and the end of it was a Keystone Cops act. Coaching and players let themselves down.

I bet if you polled those coaches and players, they wouldn't have another team at the top of their list that they want to meet again more than the 49ers. This isn't just a game, it is a reckoning.

That last road playoff game the Cowboys won that McC showed the team the ten players alive at that time was more than just motivation to shut out the voices, it was a foretelling of the near future. That game would be the ghost from the past.

What happened last night changed everything. The 49ers players were watching that spanking and telling each other and themselves "that's not us, that's not our OL or DL or secondary or run game" and they are right. But, that is not the same Cowboys team they met on the field in Arlington a year ago either.

The confidence that Bucs game gave the QB, OL and offense and the entire defense could not have come at a better time in the season. That WAS game is a distant or forgotten memory and this team is as playoff ready as a Cowboys team has been in 25 years.

This Cowboys team is every bit as balanced as the 49ers and coming to town with a chip on their shoulder. And they'll leave the 49ers with their shoulders slumping.

Can't say what happens in the NFCCG but this divisional game against the 49ers is the Cowboys season, they are going to San Francisco to hand out a butt whooping and an overdue payback and it won't be pretty or Purdy.

This isn't just some football game, this is the Cowboys-49ers and this team is going to do what that team did in 93 when they played there.
the 9ers are a very good team, not unbeatable but most of the ACCOLADES are deserved. It starts in the trenches and they are great on both sides , then coaching great on both sides, schemes more than players, yet they have great skill players as well..

However, i didnt watch a lot of their games btu they did start slow, then got hot like last year but i saw th riaders game and the seatke game, SF is not unbeatbke they have faced teams that exposed few things but they overcame it..

so i hope the coaches got all the film on what works and what doesn't and comes in with great gameplan.

Last years playoff game we played poorly, only lost by 6, that pretty encouraging.
 

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With all of this praise the media has been heaping on them, I wonder why they'll even play the game?

The players that were on the team last meeting remember all too well how they talked before showing up and tried to intimidate them. They also remember they had the chance to win that game and the end of it was a Keystone Cops act. Coaching and players let themselves down.

I bet if you polled those coaches and players, they wouldn't have another team at the top of their list that they want to meet again more than the 49ers. This isn't just a game, it is a reckoning.

That last road playoff game the Cowboys won that McC showed the team the ten players alive at that time was more than just motivation to shut out the voices, it was a foretelling of the near future. That game would be the ghost from the past.

What happened last night changed everything. The 49ers players were watching that spanking and telling each other and themselves "that's not us, that's not our OL or DL or secondary or run game" and they are right. But, that is not the same Cowboys team they met on the field in Arlington a year ago either.

The confidence that Bucs game gave the QB, OL and offense and the entire defense could not have come at a better time in the season. That WAS game is a distant or forgotten memory and this team is as playoff ready as a Cowboys team has been in 25 years.

This Cowboys team is every bit as balanced as the 49ers and coming to town with a chip on their shoulder. And they'll leave the 49ers with their shoulders slumping.

Can't say what happens in the NFCCG but this divisional game against the 49ers is the Cowboys season, they are going to San Francisco to hand out a butt whooping and an overdue payback and it won't be pretty or Purdy.

This isn't just some football game, this is the Cowboys-49ers and this team is going to do what that team did in 93 when they played there.
Nice post. I agree. I am not scared about the 49ers like everyone else. If we show up and play like we should, it's going to be a very hard fought and close game. The Cowboys have nothing to lose and have everyone reason to feel like they should be going into this game ready to punch them in the mouth (not literally).
 

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It's alot easier said than done to just say "Yeah we are going to be physical". It's The Niners game, Not the Cowboys. An interesting stat is teams are 0-15 this season the week after playing the Niners. So even if the Cowboys find a way to win on Sunday I don't like their chances the following week. It's because the Niners just physically beat the hell out of teams that those teams need 2 weeks to recover.
I heard this stat too, and yeah they are physical, but the difference to me is we would face an NFCE team that we know well, so it mitigates the affect somewhat IMO
 

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Need to shut the run down and have someone always ready to cover CMC out of the backfield. Put all the pressure on Purdy to throw to win. That said, he's been pretty damn solid throwing it so secondary is going to have to bring their A game, keep everything short and tackle...looking at you Diggsy
 

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It's alot easier said than done to just say "Yeah we are going to be physical". It's The Niners game, Not the Cowboys. An interesting stat is teams are 0-15 this season the week after playing the Niners. So even if the Cowboys find a way to win on Sunday I don't like their chances the following week. It's because the Niners just physically beat the hell out of teams that those teams need 2 weeks to recover.
SF had a very weak schedule this season. And I think it was 2014, Dallas had a similar stat, teams were like 0-11 or 0-12 after they played Dallas.
A stat that looks good, until that next team wins a game. It means nothing, and especially in the playoffs.

SF has only faced one truly strong team on offense, and that was KC who put up 43 points. SF offense has not played any truly very strong teams on defense.
 

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The Cowboys hurdled a huge organizational obstacle in Tampa and have placed the pressure of this Divisional game squarely on the shoulders of the 49ers. The football world has crowned the 49ers best in the NFL so they should have no problem beating the Cowboys, right? Dak and company should feel pretty loose and confident heading into this game. The 49ers have yet to beat a team as complete as the Cowboys and they will be challenged in every phase come Sunday. Go Cowboys!
 
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