The 49ers have totally Seahawks-ed their last 2 games. Look at the stat line, then look at the final scores. They don't seem compatible. I'm not real sure how these games have ended up being blowouts, but I guess the opposing quarterbacks being completely incompetent helps? Maybe that's also attributable to the defense- I can't tell if the defense is stepping up in the face of some pretty bad injuries, or if the other teams have just been that bad. Colin Kaepernick is not rewarding my faith that he was going to be a fantasy superstar this season.
Think about who the team is playing without: Willis, A. Smith, Manningham, Crabtree. Think of how many teams would be decimated by those kinds of injuries. The 49ers have out-scored their opponents 69-14 without those guys, and it certainly ain't in the way I thought they would be doing it earlier in the season. They are definitely borrowing heavily from the 2011 playbook, and they're doing it much more effectively. The penalties are almost completely eliminated, they actually had 3 timeouts at the end of each half tonight (a small but important victory for them), and no turnovers! They went through an entire game without turning the ball over. Finally.
Keep that formula up through the very very easy stretch of schedule coming up, and I will have no issues with the offense not being the fantasy point machine I thought it was going to be. If they get to that Seahawks game one game down or even tied, they are in very very good position. They are not pretty to watch, but this is the brand of play that made the successful to begin with, so I'm totally cool if they want to go back to it. 12-4 is back in play if they keep looking like this.
