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49ers Pulse
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Season Of Ups And Downs |
The off-season for the 49ers started off with them acquiring superstar WR Andre Johnson from the Panthers for young CB Joe Haden. Andre Johnson started off a little slow but has really helped them when they have needed him the most, pulling in 110 yards against the Saints in week 2 and at this point has 3 100 yard games in a row including a 118 yard performance in a 1 point win against the Dolphins.
The most controversial move of the season came when they traded most of their draft, WR Lee Evans and MLB Dan Connor in exchange for superstar LB Shawne Merriman who they instantly moved to MLB. With Merriman, Demarcus Ware and Xavier Adibi at LB they have one of the best LB cores in the league.
The Packers were looking for a partner to deal WR Marques Colston when San Francisco traded their last pick in the first 4 rounds (a second) to acquire him and add him to a WR core that included Johnson, Devery Henderson and Dez Bryant. With 4 really solid WRs they dealt Henderson along with beastly DE Charles Grant and always great TE Antonio Gates to acquire DE Greg Hardy, WR Golden Tate, TE Cade Anderson, HB Santana Thomas and a 3rd round pick from the Jaguars.
To help the O-Line they added Jon Jansen to play LT for them after they couldn't find a suitable player to play that this season. After taking care of the Offense they signed DT Casey Hampton and FS Quentin Jammer (the second after Rashad Johnson went down for the season) to help the D.
This team has had a lot of success with bringing players in to help them, but they have been hit hard by the injury bug. Franchise QB Tate Forcier went down in week 5 and didn't return until the week 12 win against the Dolphins, Larry Powell came in and played pretty well in the absence of Forcier compiling with a completion % of 51.91 throwing for 1340 yards and throwing 6 TDs and only 4 INTs. They lost CB Terrence Wheatley for week 9 and lost starting HB Shonn Greene for a total of about 8 weeks. How could things have gotten worse, well how about losing ur starting star FS for the season, followed by losing ur starting KR/PR and a guy that has had 3 KR TDs in 4 seasons. Sammie Stroughter will miss 3 weeks and the 49ers have signed WR Eugene Wall to try to fill the gap left by Stroughter's injury.
As it is the 9ers are in 6th place in the NFC and staring at their first playoff appearance in many years. They need to beat the Rams, Bears and possibly the games against the Vikings, Cards and Lions to even have a chance to make the playoffs in the rough and tough NFC. |
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(by D_Dingle on 05/21/2010)
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At A Glance
| NFC West |
| RNK |
TEAM |
W-L-T |
PCT |
DIV |
| #2 |
 Seahawks |
7-1-0 |
0.875 |
3-0 |
| #7 |
 Cardinals |
6-2-0 |
0.750 |
1-1 |
| #18 |
 49ers |
4-4-0 |
0.500 |
0-1 |
| #16 |
 Rams |
4-4-0 |
0.500 |
0-2 |
| 49ERS SCHEDULE |
| WK |
DATE |
OPPONENT |
TIME/RESULT |
| 1 |
Sun |
at Seahawks #2 |
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| 2 |
Mon |
vs  Saints #12 |
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| 3 |
Sun |
at  Chiefs #29 |
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| 4 |
Sun |
at  Falcons #22 |
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| 5 |
Sun |
vs  Eagles #13 |
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| 6 |
Sun |
vs  Raiders #26 |
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| 7 |
Sun |
at  Panthers #31 |
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| 8 |
Sun |
vs  Broncos #6 |
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| 10 |
Sun |
vs Rams #16 |
4:15pm |
| 11 |
Sun |
vs  Buccaneers #14 |
4:05pm |
| 12 |
Mon |
at Cardinals #7 |
8:30pm |
| 13 |
Sun |
at  Packers #27 |
1:00pm |
| 14 |
Sun |
vs Seahawks #2 |
4:05pm |
| 15 |
Thu |
at  Chargers #10 |
8:15pm |
| 16 |
Sun |
at Rams #16 |
1:00pm |
| 17 |
Sun |
vs Cardinals #7 |
4:15pm |
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