This is not a good matchup…for the 49ers

[exciter]

You were hoping to be able to say that this week huh? Had it stashed.

Stashed for what? Just saying they better be ready for it, cause it’s coming early. How they handle that first 10 min or so when Franny tries to bully them will tell a lot of how this game will go! Get hit, get up and hit back!

 

[jterrell]

This to me is a very close game.
SF is a very physical team in both trenches but we are far better on both lines now with the Tyler Smith addition and have the best edge group in football.

SF has weapons galore but this Defense isn't overmatched and can get pressure on a rookie QB.
Deebo, Mitchell and McCaffrey present concerns but this Defense is fast, tough and can create turnovers.

I foresee Dak winning this one late. Redemption from last year all around.

--Personally, I'd really like to see Zeke get a major curtain call moment here as he has been so good for many years and it looks like this may be his last hurrah in Dallas.

 

[Creeper]

I actually think these two teams are very evenly matched. The 49ers have some advantages in certain spots and Dallas has the advantage in others. The one huge advantage Dallas has is they have played better competition over the season having played 9 playoffs teams and 7 division winners. The 49ers played in a weak division and faced only 1 division winner, KC. And they lost allowing KC to score 44 points.

The 49ers have not faced an offense like Dallas all year except for KC. I am not predicting a Cowboys win. SF has the home field advantage. They have a strong DL, and their kicker is not suffering from the yips. They have excellent skill position players, and all world TE, and Deebo Samuels is just so hard to tackle. But the Cowboys have some weapons too. I think it will be a tough, close, game. I just hope it does not come down to a battle of the kickers. I do not see either team blowing the other team out, unless Dak plays like he did in Washington.

 

[LittleLexodus]

I actually think these two teams are very evenly matched. The 49ers have some advantages in certain spots and Dallas has the advantage in others. The one huge advantage Dallas has is they have played better competition over the season having played 9 playoffs teams and 7 division winners. The 49ers played in a weak division and faced only 1 division winner, KC. And they lost allowing KC to score 44 points.

The 49ers have not faced an offense like Dallas all year except for KC. I am not predicting a Cowboys win. SF has the home field advantage. They have a strong DL, and their kicker is not suffering from the yips. They have excellent skill position players, and all world TE, and Deebo Samuels is just so hard to tackle. But the Cowboys have some weapons too. I think it will be a tough, close, game. I just hope it does not come down to a battle of the kickers. I do not see either team blowing the other team out, unless Dak plays like he did in Washington.

It should be a battle. SF has been beating teams senseless for 11 straight games. I'm hoping our DL can pressure Purdy and a close game might rattle the kid. Dak could be a difference maker with his feet if their safeties fall back into soft coverage.

 

[CowboysExchange]

Sf beat Tampa handily 35-7 last month. Tampa didn't score until the 3 minute mark of the 4th quarter.

I couldn't imagine the Niners put too much stock in what we did against Tampa either.

 

[Oz-of-Cowboy-Country]

That sounds like a recipe to allow over 200 yards on the ground, which doesn't usually end well.

Stack the box.
Stacking the box would help us stop the run. And it would all so help us stop the short and quick passes. But we need to keep mixing things up along the line of scrimmage to confuse Purdy. Keep him guessing.

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.

SF like to work the edges with both runs and passes. A lot of their throws are short. So stacking the box, but dropping eight in cover every now and then would fool their young QB.

We need Purdy to make some mistakes in this game in order for us to win. Like I said in another thread... rushing three with a blitzing spy would work wonders against Purdy.

 

[john van brocklin]

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.

We talking some smack!!!
Lol
Hope the players are as confident as this board!!

 

[Typhus]

SF has Mitchell that is healthy now as well.
Just another talent to be aware of for SF, but we have ours as well.

 

[nalam]

Sf beat Tampa handily 35-7 last month. Tampa didn't score until the 3 minute mark of the 4th quarter.

I couldn't imagine the Niners put too much stock in what we did against Tampa either.

True, we had to exorcise some demons , whereas they are playing carefree, the trenches are so good they beat up the other teams, come 4th qtr, the opponent’s lay down, thats where we need to match the physicality, if we run up score early and SF had to play catch up that is where we can introduce mistakes.

 

[Strykerscm]

How do you neutralize shanahan versus our coaches.

 

[stiletto]

I think it is going to be tougher to win but I also think the Cowboys will probably play better than the last meeting. So who knows!

 

[Verdict]

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.

Respectfully, I think this is inaccurate. The Eagles are a tougher out than the 9ers simply because they have a lot more talent. They have very strong lines in both sides of that ball and Brown is better than anything on the 9ers team.

I think the 9ers have faced a weak schedule and it makes them look better than they really are. If we played the school of the blind every week we would be #1 rated offense and defense. That can’t be overlooked.

We also played in the toughest division in football. If the Commanders were in the 9ers division they would be in the playoffs this year too.

 

[IceBowler]

This isn't a good matchup for the cowboys. The cowboys struggle with team that can run the ball. Dak struggles when there is pressure. The cowboys can win but, I would give the edge to SF.

There’s not a QB living or dead that doesn’t (didn’t) struggle with pressure.