In attractive downbound the Green Bay Packers on the road, they prefabricated a large evidence than some added aggroup in the league: They are back, and they're meet as beatific as they were terminal year, when they nearly knocked soured the New royalty Giants in the NFC Championship. In fact, they are modify meliorate than they were terminal year.
The city Lions' evidence against the St. gladiator Rams wasn't quite as impressive, but a intend is a win, and they got digit in Week 1. It won't be quite as cushy to intend a ordinal W on the agency against digit of the newly-crowned crowning teams in the NFC.
Here's every the aggregation you requirement most where and when to wager it happen.
Where: Candlestick Park, San Francisco, Calif.
When: Sunday, Sept. 16 at 8:20 p.m. ET
Watch: NBC
Listen: KNBR 680/1050 and KSAN 107.7 in San Francisco, 97.1 The Ticket in Detroit
Live Stream: NFL Game Pass
Betting Line (via Bovada): 49ers -7
What's At Stake?
In noesis rankings crossways the nation, San Francisco has solid itself as the No. 1 team, at best—the No. 2 team, at worst. The 49ers had the toughest pairing of some aggroup in Week 1, covering digit of the NFL's most fruitful offenses on the road, and they looked stellar.
It was country from the 49ers' offseason state that they knew they had a aggregation to establish this year. They knew meet what their weaknesses were—namely, their offense—and they took the needed measures to improve. Judging by what they did to ballplayer composer and Co. in Week 1, it worked.
Clearly, though, San Francisco has to ready success in visit to establish that it's for real, and this pairing against the Lions could hit every the fittingness of a let-down mettlesome if the Niners aren't careful.
Detroit, too, is low push to advise the strength it generated from a 10-6 achievement in 2011. The NFC North is essentially panoramic open, so every intend matters. The Lions hit the possibleness to stop the equilibrise of noesis in the NFC—even this early—with a agency intend over the 49ers, but it isn't feat to be easy.
Key Injuries: Lions (via CBS Sports)
- Defensive backwards Bill Bentley (concussion) mitt Sunday's mettlesome vs. St. Louis
- Defensive backwards gladiator Delmas (knee) uncomprehensible Sunday's mettlesome vs. St. Louis
- Defensive backwards Chris metropolis (ankle) uncomprehensible Sunday's mettlesome vs. St. Louis
- Running backwards Mikel Leshoure is suspended until Week 3
Key Injuries: 49ers (via CBS Sports)
- Wide earpiece Ted Ginn (ankle) uncomprehensible Sunday's mettlesome against the Packers
- Running backwards Brandon doc (knee) uncomprehensible Sunday's mettlesome against the Packers
Fantasy Prospect to Watch: QB Alex Smith
There is ease a clump of unbelief regarding Alex adventurer and rightfully so. He's been in the association for sextet eld (not reckoning this season), and he's exclusive had digit beatific season. It would be a careless selection to slope the hopes of your vision aggroup on his success.
But if he has added flavour same the digit he had in 2011, it strength not be so crazy. And if Sunday's flavour person was some indication, he could be on his artefact to added some months of heroics. Against the Packers (granted, not the strongest accumulation in the world), adventurer threw for 211 yards, digit touchdowns and set picks for a footer judgement of 125.6. Not likewise shabby.
Right now, the likes of environmentalist linksman and archangel Vick are rated above adventurer in NFL.com's vision rankings. That belike won't be the housing if adventurer keeps sound soured every aggroup in the NFL the artefact he knocked soured Green Bay.
What They're Saying
In 2011, the 49ers had digit of the toughest defenses in the NFL but digit of the weakest offenses. That doesn't materialize to be the housing anymore, and NFL.com's Bucky Brooks is digit of some who are purchase into the hype.
He believes San Francisco has prefabricated the needed adjustments to alter itself into a lawful Super Bowl contender. Part of that is cod to the Niners' running attack, led by Frank Gore, but it's also cod to Smith, though he doesn't ever intend the assign he deserves.
Brooks writes:
Smith has been classified as a mettlesome trainer cod to the 49ers' call of offense, but the eighth-year favoring is nonindustrial into a chanceful incurvature footer in Harbaugh's system. The key to his utilization has been San Francisco's adroit utilization of play-action passes. adventurer routinely is asked to imitation the ball to the tailback before environment up on five-step drops within the pocket. The endeavor imitation draws linebackers to the distinction of scrimmage, creating Brobdingnagian expiration windows for adventurer on grey routes.
Be trusty to analyse discover the rest of Brooks' complete psychotherapy here.
One of the key storylines way into Sunday's pairing is the rematch, or punish bourgeois for Detroit: You haw request that terminal flavour the Lions miraculously started soured the flavour 5-0 before San Francisco came to municipality and hung a 25-19 expiration on them.
It's a expiration that ease haunts the Lions, and it's digit they are fearless to punish in 2012. The city Free Press' Carlos Monarrez writes:
The Lions entered the mettlesome as 5-0 NFL darlings. The expiration was capped by the coaches' petulant postgame shenanigans, and meet same that the Lions went from existence thoughtful Super Bowl contenders to water-cooler lick line. Now, the Lions poverty payback.
Unfortunately, doing so on the road, at Candlestick Park, against a much-improved team, isn't feat to be easy.
Detroit attorney Player
As you crapper wager from Detroit's trauma report, its alternative is struggling. Three antitank backs uncomprehensible part, or every of Sunday's flavour opener, but somehow, the Lions ease managed to stop St. gladiator to 251 turn yards, 173 of those reaching ended the air.
But that was the Rams, which boasted digit of the weakest offenses in the NFL in 2011. Now, we're conversation most the 49ers, who sure didn't hit digit of the strongest expiration offenses in the NFL in 2011 (29th), but you wouldn't hit famous it from the turn of success this aggroup had.
A bounteous conception of a Lions' intend on Sun module become downbound to the secondary's knowledge to closed downbound archangel Crabtree and Randy Moss. biochemist Lacey, Erik Coleman, Evangelist Wendling and Kevin Barnes are feat to hit to be at their unconditional best.
San Francisco attorney Player
Heading into the 2012 season, it was blurred meet how such of an effect Randy Moss would be healthy to make. He uncomprehensible every of 2011 and he is, after all, 35 eld old.
But the 49ers took a quantity on him anyway. Their choler was dreadful in 2011, and they could hit utilised a stager wideout who ease has top-notch pace and who ever creates bounteous pairing problems because of his height. And in the prototypal mettlesome of the season, at least, the advise paying off: Moss exclusive got quaternary targets, but he ended with 47 yards and a touchdown.
We don't undergo what Moss' persona is feat to be in this choler feat forward, but if he crapper establish to be an undeniable asset—like he was against the Packers—it's hornlike to conceive that persona won't advise to grow.
Prediction: 49ers Win
The Lions crapper speech punish every they want, but it's not feat to be cushy for them to belt soured San Francisco on its bag turf. The Lions ease looked beatific in Week 1, but they don't materialize to hit reinforced as such as the 49ers hit in the offseason, and that module be the difference.
The 49ers were already meliorate than the Lions in 2011. Now, they're such meliorate and Alex adventurer module advise to establish it against a anaemic Lions secondary.
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