49ers vs. Seahawks: Week 6 Thursday Night NFL Showdown

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00:00Thursday night football kicks off week number six of this NFL

00:06season. The San Francisco 49ers and the Seattle Seahawks. The

00:10Niners a three and a half point road favorite up in the

00:13Northwest against the Hawks. Total is 49 and a half. DRS, a

00:18Seattle team that started three and oh, but entering a big

00:21Monday night football game in Detroit, we questioned just how

00:25true or perhaps fraudulent that three and oh beginning was for

00:29Mike McDonald and the Seahawks team. Frankly, they've come

00:33back down to earth and they're one three and one against the

00:37spread. The only cover against Skylar Thompson and the Finns

00:42out in Seattle week number three. Well, San Francisco

00:46hasn't been great either and at least Seattle still has a

00:49winning record above 500 entering week six. The San

00:54Francisco 49ers, the Super Bowl co-favorites entering the year

00:58alongside KC. The very short favorites nearly half the price

01:02of everybody else in the NFC to win that conference crown

01:05entering this season are sub 500. They are two and three.

01:10They have been booked as a favorite in all five games this

01:13year. They have covered in each of their wins week number one

01:18against the Jets week number four as a double digit favorite

01:22against the New England Patriots at home and oh by the way,

01:25they've gone over in both of their wins, but Donnie the

01:29Niners have been a favorite in every football game, even

01:32Super Bowl fifty-eight dating back to the start of last

01:35season. They're just eleven and fourteen against the spread and

01:39to me, this is an easy spot. If you want to be a Super Bowl

01:43favorite, if you want to win the NFC, if you want to be

01:46looked at as the favorite to win a conference crown, this is a

01:50game despite it being a short week. The 49ers go on the road

01:54win comfortably and even cover as a three and a half point

01:57road favorite, but it is a short week Thursday night

02:01football game and that's what draws the doubt into my mind.

02:05It does and also we're banking on the 49ers here. Ben being

02:08that football team that we've known and love saying, man,

02:11they're very talented. They're hammering football teams on the

02:13way to the NFC championship on the way to the Super Bowl. It

02:16hasn't been that team. Yes. We love to win over the Jets week

02:19one. How good are the Jets actually at that point,

02:21Minnesota Vikings go on the road and they get beaten that

02:23game. The Vikings look like they're going to be a pretty

02:24formidable opponent here in the NFC, but then the Rams with

02:27basically nobody up double digits to blow that football

02:29game. You don't get any points for beating the Patriots. That's

02:32a horrendous franchise right now. And then the Cardinals

02:34came in. We had a double digit lead stole back game at the end

02:37and walked away with a victory. So we're just anticipating. Oh,

02:39it's no big deal at this point. Like some people might look at

02:42the Bangles like, oh, the offense is so good. They're one

02:44and four. I don't care. They're going to make a playoff run.

02:46You are what your record says you are. So now you line up

02:48against the Seahawks, but here's where I think the Seahawks are

02:50going to be at odds is that defense as we pointed out who

02:53they played and where they got their style points from or the

02:56maybe the easiest opponents you can possibly have and you're

02:58going to get tested. But I do like the fact that the Niners

03:01blew that game last week because they understand they're under

03:03500. It's like, hey, you know what Ben? We were unbeaten last

03:05week coming in. Maybe took the game a little bit easy. Took our

03:08foot up the gas up double digits. Where's that excuse

03:10when you're under 500? You don't have that at this point

03:12here. So I do expect the 49ers who I think have a better

03:15offense than Seattle overall. Quite frankly, a better overall

03:18defense, but that defense didn't show its teeth last week

03:20at all. Arizona was doing whatever they wanted to in big

03:23spots and on a key fourth down play a ball that was a 50-50

03:27jump ball downfield. Arizona won that and ended up driving

03:29down and getting the game-winning drive. So I look

03:32at this and say I want to trust the 49ers, but at the same time

03:36my brain's telling me you're going to trust the 49ers based

03:38on who they beat and who they played this year as if they're

03:40going to go to run on a Thursday night and when they're

03:42not getting points, they got to win roughly by a touchdown

03:44tonight to cover that three and a half. We'll see if they can

03:46get it done. I think they can do that not in love with it, but

03:50I trust that Niners offense to go up against that Seattle

03:52defense.

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