{"id":17590,"date":"2011-09-10T01:46:28","date_gmt":"2011-09-10T06:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=17590"},"modified":"2011-09-15T22:57:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T03:57:46","slug":"nfl-picks-preview-seattle-seahawks-at-san-francisco-49ers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-picks-preview-seattle-seahawks-at-san-francisco-49ers-17590\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Picks Preview: Seattle Seahawks at San Francisco 49ers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seattle Seahawks at San Francisco 49ers<\/strong>
\n Sunday, 9\/11\/11, 4:15 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FOX<\/strong>
\n Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 San Francisco -3<\/strong>
\n Current Betting Line:\u00a0 San Francisco -5.5<\/strong>
\n Opening Total:\u00a0 41<\/strong>
\n Current Total:\u00a0 37.5<\/strong>
\n Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Frank Gore and the 49ers started out 0-5 last year and hope to beat the Seahawks in their season opener.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The San Francisco 49ers will begin the Jim Harbaugh era on Sunday when they host the Seattle Seahawks in a battle of NFC West teams.\u00a0 Last year, the Seahawks became the first team in NFL history to win their division with a losing record while the 49ers never recovered from a terrible 0-5 start and finished 6-10 under former head coach Mike Singletary.<\/p>\n

Harbaugh is taking over for Singletary in San Francisco (-5.5, O\/U 37.5) after he led Stanford to a 29-21 mark in four years, including 12-1 last season.\u00a0 The 49ers have not finished with a winning record since 2002, which is also the last time they made the playoffs.<\/p>\n

San Francisco was picked by many experts to win the division a year ago, but poor quarterback play doomed the team like it has ever since the days of Jeff Garcia and Steve Mariucci.\u00a0 Alex Smith was supposed to be the answer as the top overall pick in the 2005 NFL draft, and he has failed to deliver so far.\u00a0 Smith did not even throw a touchdown pass in four preseason starts, as the 49ers went 2-2 both straight-up and against the spread.<\/p>\n

Seattle also has a question mark at QB with Matt Hasselbeck moving on to Tennessee.\u00a0 The Seahawks re-united former Viking Tavaris Jackson with his old offensive coordinator in Minnesota, Darrell Bevell.\u00a0 Like Smith, Jackson did very little to impress in the preseason and his development remains a work in progress.\u00a0 Ironically, it was Bevell who brought in Brett Favre two years ago because the Vikings were not confident enough in Jackson.<\/p>\n

Still, head coach Pete Carroll was somehow able to get Seattle to the postseason in his first year there after leaving USC.\u00a0 Carroll had a bit of a coaching rivalry with Harbaugh in the Pac-10, as Harbaugh was accused of running up the score on the Trojans two years ago when he opted to go for a two-point conversion late in the Cardinal\u2019s 55-21 rout.<\/p>\n

The duo\u2019s past history might be the most intriguing part of this game, but the teams have played each other dead even over the past 10 meetings both straight-up and against the spread dating back to 2006.\u00a0 The host has won and covered the last four meetings after the road team won and covered four of the previous five.\u00a0 In fact, the team that has won has also covered the spread in each of the last 10 games in the series.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning season and let the NFL handicappers<\/a> at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seattle Seahawks at San Francisco 49ers Sunday, 9\/11\/11, 4:15 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FOX Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 San Francisco -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 San Francisco -5.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 41 Current Total:\u00a0 37.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker The San Francisco 49ers will begin the Jim Harbaugh era on Sunday when they host the Seattle Seahawks in a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":4219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[2587,31,1772,1922,2757,299,417],"class_list":["post-17590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-nfc-west","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-betting","tag-nfl-picks","tag-pro-football","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-seattle-seahawks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17737,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17590\/revisions\/17737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}