My pre-season predictions for this game would have been so far off the mark I might as well have been talking about baseball.
Alex Smith is playing as well as any Quarterback in this league. He has thrown a solitary interception this term, and it came in the 49ers Week 2 27-24 loss to the Dallas Cowboys, a game that, in retrospect, they really should have won.
He had a neat game against the Eagles, throwing for 291 yards and 2 Touchdowns, without any picks and earning another top-notch rating of 112.1.
And he had to be good because the Eagles came out fighting. Now 1-3, the finger is hovering over the panic button for Andy Reid and his Dirty birds.
Michael Vick insisted he was fit to play despite taking a serious knock against the Giants in Week 3, and his 416 passing yards seem to suggest he knows his body well. That said, he presided over another loss and is finding it difficult to win games for his team like he did with so much pizazz last year.
Philly need to win soon or they will find themselves with a mountain to climb come the back end of the season. They are fortunate that no other NFC East team has taken advantage of their slow start to build a commanding lead in the division – eve now they are only a couple of games off the lead so all is not lost with many more divisional clashes on the schedule.
The 49ers are now favourites to win the NFC West after 4 games of the season. They look genuine capable of causing some damage as the fourth, maybe third seeds of the conference behind Green Bay and the Saints.
The playoffs could look very different this year as new powerhouses emerge and past masters rediscover what made them great. Who doesn’t want to see the Lions, 49ers, Saints, Packers and Redskins in the playoffs?
Michael Vick for one…
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