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Posted at 10:50 AM EST

Seattle has issues but one thing they don’t lack is desire and the ability to win games like this. If there’s one thing the Seahawks love to do more than anything, it’s defeat the 49ers and we’ll put that to the test again. Seattle had a decent performance last week against Arizona. They are coming together and getting healthy again at the right time. The Seahawks have had an extremely difficult schedule with games already against Green Bay, Denver, Dallas, San Diego (in week 3 when the Chargers were rolling) and Arizona. All that said, this one is much more about fading the biggest imposters in the NFL called the San Francisco 49ers.  

Both teams sit at 7-4 but one could easily argue that the 49ers are the luckiest 7-4 team in history. San Fran has played five home games this year and they no longer play at Candlestick Park. The 49ers lost to Chicago in their new stadium to open the year before they defeated the Eagles and Chiefs both by five points. San Fran’s next two home games were against the Rams and Redskins. They lost 13-10 to St. Louis and barely got by the ‘Skins last week (17-13) as a 9½-point favorite. Playing at Levi’s Stadium, they are now the Santa Clara Niners. From the press box, you’re looking down upon San Jose, not San Francisco. Atmosphere-wise, fans have been known to disappear in herds to get refreshments and whatever else so there is always movement in the crowd. It just doesn’t have that same “NFL atmosphere” as the other stadiums. We really have to question if this feels like home to the 49ers because they sure as hell aren’t playing like it. In fact, one could argue that the 49ers could just as easily be 0-5 at home as oppose to 3-2. The home-field advantage line is not accurate. Aside from those five home games, the Niners won at New York two weeks ago by a score of 16-10. In that game, Eli Manning threw five picks. When the opposing QB throws five picks you’re supposed to win by 28 points, not six. When San Fran defeated Dallas in Week 1 by 11 points, San Fran held a turnover edge of 4-0. In San Fran’s 11 games overall and seven wins, none of them have been dominant or impressive. San Fran has lived a charmed life but they are not close to being in the upper echelon of the NFL. They’ve been lucky and if they get lucky again here, so be it. Colin Kaepernick's has thrown 3 TD’s and 7 picks in his five career games against the Seahawks and this is by far the worst 49ers team he has played on since he arrived on the scene. The reality is that ‘Frisco, dating back to the first game of the year, never quite managed to build the championship-caliber intangibles or talent it set out to build and it’s all about to come crashing down.