Seahawks vs 49ers: Analysis for Thursday Night's Matchup

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00:00And tonight's game I mean you see a total of 48 and a half that's sort of

00:07what we're looking for in some of these games hopefully the NFL gets this one

00:09right between Seattle and San Francisco a division game the 49ers have

00:14underachieved Seattle maybe has overachieved thus far this season do you

00:19anticipate a high-scoring game this evening well I think that it's

00:24interesting because Seattle kind of needs to win this game defense first

00:29they don't want to go out and play basketball with the 49ers that's the

00:34game that in which a Brock Purdy is most comfortable it's not been a great year

00:38for Purdy to this point I I'm not sure if you're allowed to say that if it's

00:44legal to say that Brock Purdy maybe is a bit overrated but I think you're seeing

00:49that now with Deebo Samuel little banged up and Christian McCaffrey absent we're

00:53seeing a different 49ers team than we have in recent years and I think that

00:59Seattle for me I would expect Seattle to try to bring this game down to just a

01:04little bit more measured pace to try to use their muscle to try to keep San

01:09Francisco out of the game in which they'd be most comfortable and I like

01:14the Seahawks in this game because this is a game they absolutely need to move

01:19forward in the direction that they want yeah 49ers have had issues in the

01:23division we saw that game last week against Arizona we saw the game against

01:26the Rams it seems like every game like 49ers you know they're up like 10 you

01:32know like early on and then all of a sudden like things start to fall apart

01:35Gino Smith has had his issues on Thursday night he has not played well in

01:40fact he has not won a Brock Purdy has done much better I don't know you can

01:43kind of throw away I think some of those numbers tonight I don't know if they

01:46mean anything but meanwhile as far as the division is concerned 49ers are

01:50still minus 115 on the money line and Mike think back a month ago if I asked

01:55you hey what would be a good line if you wanted to take the 49ers to win the

01:59division you'd say wow minus 150 minus 160 I'll take it all the way down to

02:04minus 115 and you know it does seem like while their defense has played poorly

02:11Mike the one thing that I sort of see here is that they've done a good job on

02:14offense without McCaffrey and Mason's done a good job running but you know

02:18they don't have that pass catcher out of the backfield at all and I feel like

02:22when when Purdy was checking down constantly last year whether it was

02:25McCaffrey or somebody else I think it's a huge missing element of that team yeah

02:30McCaffrey is such a versatile back it's why he should have won the Heisman back

02:34in the day and why the Panthers should never have traded him he's just a

02:38tremendous player and he brings so much to the field and it has affected their

02:43passing game I think IU has been poor from the moment he signed the big

02:48contract he has not been the player that the 49ers and some others who wanted him

02:54projected him to be only 21 catches on 37 targets and we know a lot of those

03:00have been drops it's it's a real problem for their offense and the interesting

03:06thing about that line on the division championship is I think the problem with

03:11finding anybody else to wager on in that is that there's just such balance

03:16in in that division no one really stands out unless the 49ers get back to their

03:21peak or the Rams get healthy and so I think that's part of the reason why the

03:25line on the 49ers is still as strong as it is

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