Bayless Babbles: San Francisco 49ers Guide to Week 2

By Justin Cheng

After all the offseason chatter and eyebrow-shaving bets, Week 2 is finally here. This budding rivalry promises to be a physical, smashmouth, and expletive-filled brand of football that Bobby Boucher's momma would not approve of.



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1) 'What's Your Deal?'

Jim Harbaugh and Pete Carroll's disdain of each other has followed them since the college ranks. Carroll's USC teams were once thought to be untouchable, until Harbaugh's upstart Stanford team gave them a taste of their own medicine by running up the score en route to a victory. Like meeting in-laws that one is not fond of, this NFC West rivalry game has to happen twice a year, whether these two like it or not.




2) 12th Man

Seattle has arguably the best home-field advantage in football, if not all of sports. The Seahawks were undefeated in their defeaning stadium last year, and it will be imperative that the 49ers, particularly the coaching staff and Colin Kaepernick, execute their game plan to perfection. For all the things that Kaepernick does well, game clock management has been his Achilles heel. Seattle fans seem to pride themselves in their loudness, and any false start or delay of game will only make the stadium louder. It's important the 49ers score early to minimize how much the fans can play a factor in the game.

3) Play Physical
Seattle is a formidable foe, and this is what it looked like last year when they came out swinging, which resulted in Vernon Davis getting knocked out of the game and Mario Manningham not having touched a football field since last year's game.

For previous guides, click below
Preseason Week 2
Preseason Week 3
Preseason Week 4
Week 1 (vs. Packers)

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