2022 Playoff Picture Thread

What would be painful is to travel thousands of miles to MN, presumably beat the Vikings, travel back and travel thousands of miles again(!) to play the Eagles.
A 2nd seed would be good, seems to get harder by the day.

Originally posted by 49ersking:
What would be painful is to travel thousands of miles to MN, presumably beat the Vikings, travel back and travel thousands of miles again(!) to play the Eagles.
A 2nd seed would be good, seems to get harder by the day.

Maybe stay in the East if that happens

Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:

Originally posted by 49ersking:
What would be painful is to travel thousands of miles to MN, presumably beat the Vikings, travel back and travel thousands of miles again(!) to play the Eagles.
A 2nd seed would be good, seems to get harder by the day.

Maybe stay in the East if that happens

The thing is the next game or where it's played is unknown in the playoffs, so I'm guessing teams don't plan ahead.
The best case scenario is someone beats the Vikings in the wild card, and since we are hoping, someone beats the Eagles in the divisional round.

Originally posted by 49ersking:

Originally posted by 49AllTheTime:

Originally posted by 49ersking:
What would be painful is to travel thousands of miles to MN, presumably beat the Vikings, travel back and travel thousands of miles again(!) to play the Eagles.
A 2nd seed would be good, seems to get harder by the day.

Maybe stay in the East if that happens

The thing is the next game or where it's played is unknown in the playoffs, so I'm guessing teams don't plan ahead.
The best case scenario is someone beats the Vikings in the wild card, and since we are hoping, someone beats the Eagles in the divisional round.

It's not that big of an unknown, if we're the 3rd seed and we win the WC, we go to Minn then Philly or Minn then Home

What will be hard is if our game is ahead of the philly game because a decision would have to be made on staying put and waiting or just go home after our game

Teams don't recover after a Niner beatdown

It looks like the Vikes schedule is a little harder for the final 3 games but I guess that doesn't really mean much anymore.

I was listening to TJ, LaVar and Plaxico on the radio yesterday and they were saying that the Niners hadn't really beat many winning teams. I checked and the Niners were near the bottom as far as won-loss records of their opponents. The Eagles opponents were only one game better so both of these teams might find the playoffs a little tougher than they want.

When the season started it looked like the Niners had a pretty rough schedule with all those AFC West teams plus the NFC West and TB. Then the AFC West fizzled except for KC and the NFC fizzled as well. The Rams completely collapsed. TB turned out to be only a .500 team so the schedule ended up being fairly easy. Who would have thought that 2 of the weaker teams on the schedule ended up being losses.

Originally posted by NotAFinga42:

Originally posted by Disp:

Originally posted by NotAFinga42:
Buffalo doesn't scare me at all. Only 2 teams I'm concerned about are Philly and KC.

I seem to recall Josh Allen shredding the f**k out of our defense a couple years ago. Different teams sure, but their team is elite with him at QB.

So what the hell does it matter if Allen shredded a different team a couple years ago? This year our defense has made every elite QB we've faced look silly, except Mahomes and Mariota, when half of our D was not available. Other than those 2 games, no QB has had over a 100 rating vs our D.

You're right, different team. Case in point---the 2021 49ers offense was roughly the same as the 2022 49ers offense when Jimmy came back, but they didn't run the ball as well early in the season because defenses are better equipped to handling the outside zone run this year, and they aimed to take away Deebo Samuel. It's really hard to compare years because the league is constantly evolving in gameplanning.

However... the reason why it was concerning for Allen to shred our defense a few years ago is that it shows that our defense is not infallible against mobile QB's. (It's not specifically a 49er defense weakness though. It just shows why mobile QB's are in vogue these days.).

The Bills were able to mix it up really well in that game a few years ago, but Allen's mobility just kept us off-balance all game. Yes, we were short-handed against the Falcons this year, but Mariota's ability as a running option, and a scrambler on pass plays, really challenges our play discipline. Our defensive line needs to have good pass rush integrity, and Demeco Ryans might have to consider using a spy on certain plays.

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
It looks like the Vikes schedule is a little harder for the final 3 games but I guess that doesn't really mean much anymore.

I was listening to TJ, LaVar and Plaxico on the radio yesterday and they were saying that the Niners hadn't really beat many winning teams. I checked and the Niners were near the bottom as far as won-loss records of their opponents. The Eagles opponents were only one game better so both of these teams might find the playoffs a little tougher than they want.

When the season started it looked like the Niners had a pretty rough schedule with all those AFC West teams plus the NFC West and TB. Then the AFC West fizzled except for KC and the NFC fizzled as well. The Rams completely collapsed. TB turned out to be only a .500 team so the schedule ended up being fairly easy. Who would have thought that 2 of the weaker teams on the schedule ended up being losses.

Yeah, it's true that we haven't had the strongest Strength of Schedule this year.
But given that the core group of this roster has been in two deep playoff runs, I'm 100% confident that they'll show up in playoffs, and if anything our experience will be an advantage over the other teams in the field.

Originally posted by Wubbie:

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
It looks like the Vikes schedule is a little harder for the final 3 games but I guess that doesn't really mean much anymore.

I was listening to TJ, LaVar and Plaxico on the radio yesterday and they were saying that the Niners hadn't really beat many winning teams. I checked and the Niners were near the bottom as far as won-loss records of their opponents. The Eagles opponents were only one game better so both of these teams might find the playoffs a little tougher than they want.

When the season started it looked like the Niners had a pretty rough schedule with all those AFC West teams plus the NFC West and TB. Then the AFC West fizzled except for KC and the NFC fizzled as well. The Rams completely collapsed. TB turned out to be only a .500 team so the schedule ended up being fairly easy. Who would have thought that 2 of the weaker teams on the schedule ended up being losses.

Yeah, it's true that we haven't had the strongest Strength of Schedule this year.
But given that the core group of this roster has been in two deep playoff runs, I'm 100% confident that they'll show up in playoffs, and if anything our experience will be an advantage over the other teams in the field.

I hope you're right. I also like the fact that the defense is the strength of the team. Defense tends to carry over better than offense.

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:

Originally posted by Wubbie:

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
It looks like the Vikes schedule is a little harder for the final 3 games but I guess that doesn't really mean much anymore.

I was listening to TJ, LaVar and Plaxico on the radio yesterday and they were saying that the Niners hadn't really beat many winning teams. I checked and the Niners were near the bottom as far as won-loss records of their opponents. The Eagles opponents were only one game better so both of these teams might find the playoffs a little tougher than they want.

When the season started it looked like the Niners had a pretty rough schedule with all those AFC West teams plus the NFC West and TB. Then the AFC West fizzled except for KC and the NFC fizzled as well. The Rams completely collapsed. TB turned out to be only a .500 team so the schedule ended up being fairly easy. Who would have thought that 2 of the weaker teams on the schedule ended up being losses.

Yeah, it's true that we haven't had the strongest Strength of Schedule this year.
But given that the core group of this roster has been in two deep playoff runs, I'm 100% confident that they'll show up in playoffs, and if anything our experience will be an advantage over the other teams in the field.

I hope you're right. I also like the fact that the defense is the strength of the team. Defense tends to carry over better than offense.

Oh definitely, and our overall, physical style of play on BOTH sides of the ball lends itself well to playoff football. I don't have any major questions at this point except (1) health, and (2) how far Brock Purdy can go.

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
It looks like the Vikes schedule is a little harder for the final 3 games but I guess that doesn't really mean much anymore.

I was listening to TJ, LaVar and Plaxico on the radio yesterday and they were saying that the Niners hadn't really beat many winning teams. I checked and the Niners were near the bottom as far as won-loss records of their opponents. The Eagles opponents were only one game better so both of these teams might find the playoffs a little tougher than they want.

When the season started it looked like the Niners had a pretty rough schedule with all those AFC West teams plus the NFC West and TB. Then the AFC West fizzled except for KC and the NFC fizzled as well. The Rams completely collapsed. TB turned out to be only a .500 team so the schedule ended up being fairly easy. Who would have thought that 2 of the weaker teams on the schedule ended up being losses.

Don't hold much weight on the opinion of someone who doesn't know how to put the safe on a gun in public.

also the fact that the 49ers "hadn't beat any winning teams" says more about the league than it does about the Niners. There are ton of terrible teams this season and maybe 3-5 legitimately good teams, and thats being generous

Originally posted by RiceOwensStokes:

Originally posted by CatchMaster80:
It looks like the Vikes schedule is a little harder for the final 3 games but I guess that doesn't really mean much anymore.

I was listening to TJ, LaVar and Plaxico on the radio yesterday and they were saying that the Niners hadn't really beat many winning teams. I checked and the Niners were near the bottom as far as won-loss records of their opponents. The Eagles opponents were only one game better so both of these teams might find the playoffs a little tougher than they want.

When the season started it looked like the Niners had a pretty rough schedule with all those AFC West teams plus the NFC West and TB. Then the AFC West fizzled except for KC and the NFC fizzled as well. The Rams completely collapsed. TB turned out to be only a .500 team so the schedule ended up being fairly easy. Who would have thought that 2 of the weaker teams on the schedule ended up being losses.

Don't hold much weight on the opinion of someone who doesn't know how to put the safe on a gun in public.

Those 3 guys know football. I don't care about the gun issue. Gun accidents happen all the time when people get careless. Anyway they were just pointing out a fact. The Niners and Eagles have both had easy schedules.

Originally posted by ninerfan4life:
Teams don't recover after a Niner beatdown

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Watching KC and pulling for them to lose so that Buffalo will have home field against them, then realized Mahomes has never beaten Burrow. KC's road to the SB is definitely harder than ours. While id LOVE to play the Bengals in the SB again, I think this may finally be the year Berman gets his wish of a SF Buffalo Super Bowl.

All this chatter about how much we should/shouldn't play our core guys vs. fighting for the #2 seed...

I get the notion, but we can't necessarily just put them on ice for three games. We've seen it for other teams in past situations, where they got too much rest and came into the playoff game rusty.

A pitch count, or pulling starters a little earlier than usual... that's something I think is worth discussing though as we get to Week 17 and 18.