NFL Picks Week 7: Experts Unanimously Pick Seattle Seahawks To Beat 49ers

That one easy win was against a team with Jimmy Clausen at quarterback. After the first six games of the 2015 NFL season, both teams sit at 2-4 and are in the last place in the NFC West. Here is a look at the Thursday Night Football game this week, where both teams try to turn things around. They’ve outscored their opponents by nine points, however, as the four losses have come by a combined 20 points.

The San Francisco 49ers look to string together back-to-back victories for the first time this season.

Seattle’s slow start might be the most surprising in the entire NFL. They have one offensive touchdown in the fourth quarter or overtime all year-week 1 against the Rams.

The total has gone UNDER in 4 of San Francisco’s last 6 games when playing at home against Seattle. The last was the 2011 Denver Broncos with Tim Tebow, winning a division at 8-8 with a ton of close wins. Will they get back to that simplicity going forward? This team could certainly mentally go either way, but it does have veterans who have been part of great successes and should have the ability to bounce back.

Even better, standing at the podium, Kaepernick knew he won’t have to hear critiques about how he plays and how he prepares for at least a few days, and he sort of communicated this when I asked him exactly that. They now give up an average of 3.2 sacks per game, 28th in the league. The odds of multiple of those teams getting to 10 wins seems slim. It takes flawless execution and fortune to beat them, despite the four losses Seattle already has this season. That could make this a different-looking game than we’ve seen from this series, as the 49ers’ secondary also looks leaky of late, having allowed four teams to pass for 300 or more yards this season.

Tomsula said there is concern linebacker NaVorro Bowman is playing too much on his surgically repaired left knee, injured against the Seahawks in the NFC title game almost two years ago. The offensive line is weaker than in the past, and that’s hurting Seattle in all phases of the offensive game plan right now.

There’s been much discussion about 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s problems over the last couple of seasons and no shortage of opinions about what he needs to do to get on a better track. The Vikings still have to play at Atlanta, at Arizona, and against the Packers twice in addition to that game. “There are other things you might like to do, but this really isn’t the game for it”.

For all the bad outcomes, this is still a talented team. The San Francisco 49ers ground game is averaging 118.3 yards per contest, and Carlos Hyde leads the way with 430 yards and three touchdowns. Defensively, the San Francisco 49ers yield 298.8 yards in passing and 108.0 yards in rushing.

The 49ers received a one-game roster exemption for wideout Jerome Simpson, who is returning to practice this week after serving his six-game suspension for violations of the NFL’s substance-abuse policy. He leads the team with three sacks and had a season-high five tackles Sunday.

The margin of error is smaller.

“Everybody gets a little anxious for this game”, said cornerback Kenneth Acker, who was wide open without a receiver in sight when he made an interception in the third quarter Sunday against Joe Flacco and returned it 45 yards.