Originally posted by btthepunk:
They've won more road games (and home games) than we have this year.
Indeed they have. If only simple stats told the whole story. The only way their record is the be all end all of what team is better is if both teams played the same exact teams on neutral fields at full strength and the games were perfectly officiated.
The 49ers have only lost two road games, one in Seattle where visiting teams have a nearly impossible chance of playing offence, and the other to the #2 seed in the NFC in the Saints, a game the 49ers would have won had it not been for a ridiculous flag on Ahmad Brooks. In all their other road games they absolutely dominated the opposition.
The Seahawks...
- only scored 12 points, all field goals, in their win against the Panthers.
- barely beat the Texans, who the 49ers destroyed, on the last play of the game after being down 20-3 at half time.
- lost to the Colts in Indy.
- scored a total of 14 points in a weak win at St Louis, a team the 49ers destroyed at home and on the road
So even though they won 3 of those 4 games they were lucky to win any of them and looked pretty bad in all four games. Record matters most in the end but it sure as heck doesn't tell the whole story of how a team played. As you can see when looking at four of the Seahawks road games in which they went 3-1 even though they did not look good in any of them.
[ Edited by Gavintech on Dec 3, 2013 at 2:45 PM ]