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The 49ers did not win a road game last year!
The 49ers lost to the Bucks on the road last year 27-9, in one of their worst performances of the year.
The 49ers have not beaten Bruce Arians since Harbaugh left: losing the last 8.
That's the bad news.
The good news (besides the fact that this not an early start game on the East Coast) is that all those facts I just mentioned will be huge motivating/psychological factors for a 49er team that is much improved from last year--especially on the defensive end. The 49ers know that if they are going to contend this year they have to win on the road, and what better way to do that than winning the first game on the road against a team that beat them last year and a coach who has beaten them 8 straight. There is no look-ahead (they play the Bungles next week) or overlooking this Tampa team. This game (i.e., their first road test) is all the 49ers are thinking about and have been thinking about since last year.
This is, in many ways, a statement game, but not the kind we usually think of. This is a statement the 49ers are making to themselves. A statement that says: we are not last year's team, we are not going to lose for the 9th straight time on the road, and the 9th straight time to Bruce Arians, we will be contenders, we will win the games we are supposed to win, and we will begin this process by burying the putrid Bucks on the road.
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The 49ers lost to the Bucks on the road last year 27-9, in one of their worst performances of the year.
The 49ers have not beaten Bruce Arians since Harbaugh left: losing the last 8.
That's the bad news.
The good news (besides the fact that this not an early start game on the East Coast) is that all those facts I just mentioned will be huge motivating/psychological factors for a 49er team that is much improved from last year--especially on the defensive end. The 49ers know that if they are going to contend this year they have to win on the road, and what better way to do that than winning the first game on the road against a team that beat them last year and a coach who has beaten them 8 straight. There is no look-ahead (they play the Bungles next week) or overlooking this Tampa team. This game (i.e., their first road test) is all the 49ers are thinking about and have been thinking about since last year.
This is, in many ways, a statement game, but not the kind we usually think of. This is a statement the 49ers are making to themselves. A statement that says: we are not last year's team, we are not going to lose for the 9th straight time on the road, and the 9th straight time to Bruce Arians, we will be contenders, we will win the games we are supposed to win, and we will begin this process by burying the putrid Bucks on the road.
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You don't have a phucking clue what is in the mind of these players. You just THINK you know.
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