period. The sched get’s pretty tough afterwards.

While last week’s win vs. AZ made a statement, nobody ever viewed the Cardinals as a legit team anyway. If they can beat a more balanced team like Seattle, then the momentum might carry over to some games that they are almost certain to lose.

nobody ever viewed the Cardinals as a legit team anyway

You sure about that Frog?

A loss wouldn’t be the end of the world, but the road to the playoffs means being the best team in the division. Beating division rivals usually helps that cause.

Let’s face it, we are not winning our division or even getting to the playoffs unless our defense is as good as many of us believe it is. With that being said, there have been arguments that the Cardinals offense was not at full strength and that is only reason they lost. I think the bottom line is we need our 49er’s defense to win this game by holding the Seahawks’ so called balanced attack to minimal points if any at all, few enough points for Hill, Gore, and the rest of the gang to score enough to win. I predicted a 14-13 win for us. That is how close I see this game being. If our defense plays strong and we still lose the game for some stupid offensive reason, like turnovers, poor play by Hill, or even special teams blunders, I would not see our season as a lost cause. But if for some reason, our defense stinks it up, then I think I will have to admit that I have been living in la la Land or just admit that being stationed in Minot North Dakota as made me lose all the common sense I knew I had at one point. Oh and a final note, there is really no way to tell what the Seahawks offense it like after the Lambs game! I question why they only scored 28 on them? Heck last year the Rams Gave up more than that 50% of the time.

This is Mike Singletary’s first game as HC facing a “must-win” scenario as well. It will be interesting to see how the team plays in such an important early season contest. All the pieces are set up and in place, Whoseyourmomma missed WED and THU practices, and Burleson has a “hammy” to worry about. In other words, Seattle’s fans are lining up with excuses prepared when San Francisco beats Seattle 35 – 20 this Sunday.

You are about to see what the 2009 49ers are all about, tune in Sunday to find out. If you are going to the game @ Candlestick, amazing. Tailgate your ass off, ass is ok, right? And I’m talking to you James, TAILGATE your ass off. Get there as early as you can and live it up man!

The first must win, is a win, write it down on your paper.

A win would be a great boost in the division and a loss at home COULD create a temporary set back….BUT, here’s what gives me hope that EVEN IF we lost, that we could continue to have optomistic views of each and every game

Singletary: "I know that what I’m doing is right, so I don’t question myself and you just go forward and if you don’t win this game, it’s not the end of the world, you’ve got 15 more. The most important thing is you continue to build. Sometimes you can lose a game, but you gain something."

That type of philosophy can only be constructive.

I am optomistic for this week’s game. There will be lots of up and downs I’m sure much like last week’s game. But being that the Hawks have racked up a ton of injuries and other key players will be playing hurt, I like our chances and I look for there to be more ups than downs. The second meeting will be a much different game and thier crowd will be heavily involved. But if they cannot stay healthy, they will finish close to what they accomplished last season

Not a classic case of “must win or the season is over” but we have the momentum, the Hawks are in of Div so if the we want prove to ourselves that we are a playoff caliber team then as they used to say in those old WW11 movies DAMN THE TORPEDOES FULL SPEED AHEAD AND

Not sure if anyone has seen the interview….pretty good

we win vs. Seattle. It sets us up to be 3-0 in the division and probably 3-1 record through 4 weeks. I think it’s huge.

Every. Single. One.

Going in with the mentality that some losses are more acceptable than others is recipe for bad mojo. In the mind of Singletary, or any player, I never would go into battle thinking that with the odds against me, it’s OK to tuck tail and take the whippin’. I’d be ashamed of my name and position in the world.

If anything, “the bigger they are, the harder they fall” is a much better mindset to have. And with a great chance at owning this division, it’s more of a “are we really going to let the ‘hawks’ get the upper hand?” type of deal. I’d slap myself silly if we let them win the division this year.

Not in my house.

The benefit to it being a division game is you get one more chance to even the series and I expect these two teams to split this season. It would not steal last weeks momentum but would stall it and keep the huge question mark of “unknown” over our team.

I think that it would represent a 2-1 record in the division with wins coming vs our two biggest competitors within the division would certainly be a tie-breaker benefit for later in the year. Nationally, winning two West games will give us no respect but being alone in first would make us part of the conversation. I think all NFC West teams will need to win non-divisional games and road games in the eastern or central time zones to start earning a place on the national stage.

But I can’t. They were my first team growing up even though I was closer to the Raiders’ stadium and I don’t have the heart to do it.

Did people just forget that if Mike Martz had decent clock management in Arizona and Hasselbeck doesn’t throw to Rodgers-Cromartie the Seahawks would be playing the defending NFC West champs? It’s not like the 49ers were bad, they were two breaks from pulling off an improbable comeback.

A must-win? I don’t know. But the Niners have a tougher schedule and it’s a home game so it would be best to defend your turf.

Good luck to you guys this weekend.

He plays special teams…
Seneca will never be an elite QB..if you’re honest to yourself, you realize that