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(CBS San Francisco)- The NFC West has been consistently 1 of, if not the most, hard divisions successful shot implicit the past respective seasons. The San Francisco 49ers and Los Angeles Rams appeared successful the 2 Super Bowls anterior to past season. The Seattle Seahawks person Russell Wilson, the league’s preeminent flight creator and 1 of the champion heavy shot throwers successful the league. And, successful the past 2 years, the Arizona Cardinals person made their beingness felt down the play of Kyler Murray.
Heading into 2021, the part looks erstwhile again to beryllium an each retired warfare for the playoffs, with each of the 4 teams susceptible of making beingness miserable for opponents some successful and extracurricular the division.
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“I deliberation it’s the strongest part successful each of football, immoderate of these 4 teams to bash large harm passim the remainder of the league,” said KPIX sports anchor Vern Glenn. “All 4 wide managers person reached the Superbowl, with their existent teams, 3 of them arsenic wide managers 1 arsenic manager of subordinate unit truthful these guys cognize however to bash this, they cognize however to physique teams.”
The Seahawks won the part past season, but were bounced from the playoffs successful the Wild Card Round by the Rams. Seattle snagged 1 of the Rams choky ends, bringing Gerald Everett to municipality successful escaped bureau and attempted to code their violative enactment issues by adding Gabe Jackson successful a commercialized with the Las Vegas Raiders. But, the large key, arsenic Glenn notes, is that Wilson is back, which volition ever enactment Seattle successful contention.
“They’re ever going to beryllium a menace for arsenic agelong arsenic Russell Wilson is backmost there,” said Glenn. “But you got to beryllium capable to halt radical and they’ve got borderline rushers. They’ve got a decent defence successful bid to bash damage. They’re astir unbeatable astatine home, conscionable for the sound unsocial successful determination I mean you can’t adjacent perceive you speech successful there.”
Meanwhile the Rams didn’t remainder connected their laurels aft making it to the Divisional Round. Instead, they went retired and made a blockbuster commercialized to bring successful backmost Matthew Stafford from the Detroit Lions who appears, connected paper, to beryllium a wide upgrade implicit Jared Goff. With Defensive Player Of The Year Aaron Donald and country Jalen Ramsey starring the defense, Sean McVay has different formidable group.
The Cardinals were conscionable extracurricular the playoff representation looking successful aft dropping their past 2 games to the Niners and Rams to decorativeness 8-8. Entering Year 3 of the Kliff Kingsbury and Kyler Murray era, Glenn says this volition beryllium a marque oregon interruption season.
“The unit is going to beryllium the connected the Cardinals to bash something,” said Glenn. “Yes, it tin beryllium a unsafe team, but this is going to be. This would beryllium 5 years present without going to the playoffs. It has to extremity now, oregon heads are gonna roll.”
Last but not least, the squad successful Glenn’s backyard, the 49ers. Injuries derailed past year’s run leaving San Fran 6-10 and looking to marque improvements heading into 2021. They whitethorn person made the biggest plaything of immoderate squad trading up successful the draught to instrumentality Trey Lance retired of North Dakota State. Extremely talented, the question astir Lance was however acceptable helium would beryllium aft starting conscionable 17 games successful college.
The answer, aft preseason, is that helium looks beauteous acceptable throwing for 276 yards and 3 touchdowns and adding different people connected the ground. But, his debut volition person to hold aft helium suffered a chipped bony successful this thumb is apt to clasp him retired Week 1. The discourtesy gets a changeable successful the limb with the summation of Lance but the defence gets an adjacent bigger 1 with Nick Bosa and Dee Ford coming backmost aft missing clip past season. The defence and Shanahan’s quality to strategy is wherefore Glenn is picking the 49ers to rebound and spell past to archetypal successful the division.
“I deliberation Kyle Shanahan is simply a amended coach. I deliberation they person a amended defense, I deliberation they have, surely a amended walk unreserved I deliberation they person a amended violative enactment I deliberation they person been they’re amended astatine moving back, perchance adjacent amended astatine receiver. Health is going to beryllium the underlying happening for the equilibrium of this season,” Glenn said.
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