Originally posted by buck:
Originally posted by Rascal:
Originally posted by buck:
Originally posted by Rascal:
- Going forward, the question that looms in my head is - have we already witnessed the "changing of the guards" ? I believe the home game in December will give us the definitive answer.
The basic answer will be the winning of the NFC West.
The definitive answer, at least for this year, will be, assuming that both team reach the play offs, which team does better in the play offs.
Not really.
I believe you might have jumped the gun here.
At least theoretically speaking, winning or losing that home game alone may already have a major bearing on who wins the NFC West, that's before you start talking about a hypothetical head-to-head in the playoffs.
OK, Talking about who goes farther in the play-offs is clearly jumping the gun.
But, last year did prove that both team could make the play offs and not go head to head. That is why I never mentioned going head to head, only going farther.
Winning the second game with Seattle is important, but you went beyond saying it was important.
You said that the home game against Seattle in December would give us the definitive answer as to a changing of the guard.
I just happen to think that winning the NFC West would give us a definitive answer, at least for this year.
At the end of the regular season what will be important is who wins the divisional championship.
If both teams make the play-offs, then the definitive answer more than likely depends on who goes farther in the play-offs.
My focus is them Vs us head-to-head. Anything can happen in the playoffs, they just missed the NFC game by a FG, who knows what might have happened if we had to play them as opposed to the Falcons ?
Also, just cos one team gets further into the playoffs, that doesn't necessarily mean it is the better team head-to-head. In fact, you could even win the Super Bowl and not win a head-to-head against a certain team.
However, say if we had beaten them in the playoffs to advance then it would be different.
But, as it stands, they have now beaten us twice in a row. It is a bit like after the last divisional playoff game we had beaten the Packers twice consecutively. Worse still, the Packers have now lost 3 against us now. That tells me we have surpassed them. Mind you, they didn't exactly play all that bad 2 weeks ago neither and we still managed to beat them by 6 points.
Going back to Seattle, yes a lot has been made about the 12th Man and noise at the CLink, so I am not going to belittle it. By the same token, I am not going to belittle 2 consecutive blowouts neither. But, since some people here have claimed we ONLY lost because of the noise, I will give it another game, a home game for us to reverse our fortune. So yes, if we lose again, to me it is more than defenitive.
Remember is mano-a-mano, 9ers Vs Seahawks and not who wins the NFC West, the NFC or the Super Bowl.