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SEATTLE SEAHAWKS Reason for pessimism: Its kind of difficult to find much to be pessimistic about in Seattle in 2013. Joe Staley 49ers Jersey . They were the second youngest team in football, so with all the success how will they react this season? Russell Wilson is no longer new to the NFL and teams have significant game film on him. He will have to elevate a new skill set to keep teams off balance. Percy Harvins absence is a concern as he would have been a game changer and a defence dictator. Still, there is very little pessimism with this team. Reason for optimism: The Seattle Seahawks won 11 games last year and in the six losses were by point totals of four, six, seven, four, and three. Seattle was within one converted touchdown of every game last year. Wilson is for real and Marshawn Lynch is the most physical runner in football; as much as Adrian Peterson. They won five regular season games in a row to end the season and in Week 16 beat San Francisco 42-13. The pass rush has improved in free as well. They are 59-29 at home since 2002, second only to Green Bay, and their defence leads the NFL in the most important statistic of all: fewest points allowed with (15.3 per game.) Not much to be pessimistic about; everything to be optimistic about. Prediction: First in NFC West. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS Reason for pessimism: It is going to be tough to get back. In 2011, San Francisco won 13 games and made it to the NFC Championship game only to lose to the eventual Super Bowl-winning New York Giants in overtime. Then last season, they won an impressive 11 games, made it all the way to the Super Bowl in Louisiana, had the ball for four plays on the seven yard line with time left but lost 34-31 to the Baltimore Ravens. Now Jim Harbaugh is 24-7-1 as a two-year coach. He know the business. But, can the players regenerate the energy necessary to grind out another season, play their best in the regular season and handle the pressure of a New York Super Bowl? Seattle will be better, St. Louis will be better, will the 49ers be better? They did lose eight players in free agency (to be expected) including significant losses Dashon Goldson and Delanie Walker. It really is Super Bowl or bust for the 49ers this season. Reason for optimism: Colin Kaepernick is just going to get better and better. He had an amazing year last year, or to be more accurate, half year. He has a very strong arm and now has Anquan Boldin to work with. Both Patrick Willis and Frank Gore could go down as the greatest 49ers ever at their positions before they retire and Navarro Boman would be the top linebacker on any team except with the 49ers. The individual talent may be better than any other NFL team. Greg Roman and Vic Fangio are excellent coordinators and if the 49ers win the Super Bowl, probably new head coaches. 2013 is all about unfinished business for San Francisco and just about every piece of the puzzle fits. Reality: I can see the 49ers keeping the Rams at a distance but dont know about Seattle. Week 2 at Seattle and Week 14 at home against Seattle are critical games. Prediction: Second in NFC West. ST. LOUIS RAMS Reason for pessimism: The last five years of Rams football have been pretty tough. With two, one, seven, two, and another seven; that totals 19 wins in the last 80 games. And this year they dont have Steven Jackson at running back. Jackson reminds me of the great Curtis Martin: durable, explosive, and able to get the job done year after year. The Rams will miss Jacksons consistency. We will know a lot about the Rams by Week 4: after opening at Arizona, they are at Atlanta, at Dallas and San Francisco on Monday night. To progress and be a playoff team, the Rams still have to improve in the kicking game: 31st and 26th in punt and kick return is not playoff efficient. They also have to improve their takeaway/giveaway ratio as they finished - 1 by the end of the season. The Rams are on the rise and everyone in the NFL knows it; especially San Francisco and Seattle. Reason for optimism: They could finish in first place in NFC West. For the first time in his NFL career Sam Bradford will have the same offence to run. He will improve just because of that fact. Tavon Austin will not only help the offence but the return game as well. And the Rams have an excellent kicker in Greg Zuerlein who made seven 50-yard plus field goals last season, including a 60-yarder. Still, the biggest reason is Jeff Fisher as head coach. His overall record is 149 wins, 128 losses and one tie. You add all those games up you have 278 games of coaching experience. If any coach can correctly evaluate, adjust, improve and capitalize based on experience, its Fisher. Reality: Its not that the Rams arent good, it is that the other teams are good too. If the Rams can stay healthy going into December and progressively improve then yes, they can knock either San Francisco or Seattle into third place. In December they play at San Francisco and in Seattle. This is a good team on the verge of great, but not quite yet. Prediction: Third in NFC West. ARIZONA CARDINALS Reason for pessimism: Basically the Arizona Cardinals are starting all over again. There five-year win totals are nine, 10, five, eight, and five. It really showed how good Kurt Warner was. Nobody felt Warners departure more that Larry Fitzgerald as a wide receiver. Each team in their division is on the way up and in some ways so are the Cardinals. They certainly are not unwilling to make tough moves, with an example being not re-sighing Adrian Wilson who will eventually be in the Cardinals Ring of Honour. Another was drafting Tyrann Mattheiu out of LSU, who has baggage. No risk, no reward . Last year the Cardinals won four in a row and then lost 11 of 12. The all-time low was Week 14 when they lost to Seattle in Seattle 58-0. Many said the Cardinals players just quit trying; pretty heavy criticism. Reason for optimism: Bruce Arians did a remarkable job with Andrew Luck and the entire situation with the Colts. He now has a more experienced quarterback in Carson Palmer and control overall as the top influence over football in Arizona. The question is do they have enough good players? Fitzgerald and Patrick Peterson are two of the best at wide receiver and cornerback. The unknown is running back and the right side of the offensive line. Some teams can absorb injuries because they have winning seasons and have been able to draft and sign players to enhance depth and special teams. Not Arizona, as they are still looking for 22 quality starters for both sides of the ball. With Arians, they have a chance to reach that goal, given time. Reality: They open at St. Louis , they end at San Francisco, and are at Seattle about mid-season. They also travel to New Orleans, Tampa Bay, Houston, and Indianapolis. Their schedule is real tough. Prediction: Fourth in the NFC West. Terrell Owens 49ers Jersey . The 49ers announced the deal Tuesday. San Francisco selected Lloyd in the fourth round of the 2003 draft. Joe Looney 49ers Jersey . New York then missed its next six shots and scored only two points the rest of the night. The Los Angeles Clippers defence and the Knicks general ineptitude both played a role in the unsurprising finish to a meeting of two teams headed in opposite directions. http://www.thesf49ersshoponline.com/Youth-Vance-Mcdonald-49ers-Jersey/ . With the Canadiens leading by one to start the third period, Price turned away 16 shots by the Panthers in the final frame to give Montreal a 2-1 victory over Florida on Monday night. The Panthers (16-21-6) outshot Montreal 16-10 in the final frame, but were repeatedly frustrated by Price, who made 26 saves on the night.SHANGHAI - Canadas Milos Raonic and Vasek Pospisil were eliminated at the Shanghai Masters on Wednesday while Roger Federer, Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic advanced to the third round.Raonic, the No. 8 seed from Thornhill, Ont., trailed 2-5 in the opening set when he retired from his second-round match against Argentinas Juan Monaco. It wasnt immediately clear why Raonic decided to end the match.The unseeded Pospisil, from Vancouver, dropped a 7-6 (1), 3-6, 6-4 decision to No. 14 Roberto Bautista Agut despite firing 15 aces to the Spaniards two.Federer saved five match points and rallied from a 5-2 deficit in the third-set tiebreaker before finally beating Leonardo Mayer 7-5, 3-6, 7-6 (7) in a thrilling second-round match.Rafael Nadal, meanwhile, lost to fellow Spaniard Feliciano Lopez 6-3, 7-6 (6) only days after appendicitis left him bedridden and uncertain if hed be able to compete.Federer hadnt played since helping Switzerland beat Italy to make the Davis Cup final a month ago, and the inactivity showed. He made an uncharacteristic 57 unforced errors — including some bad mishits — and only won about half of his points at the net.The Swiss star was also a little fortunate. On Mayers first match point at 5-4 in the third, the Argentine aimed a backhand passing shot down the line but the ball clipped the tape and fell back on his side of the net.Federer finally put it away on his first match point with a backhand lob that just caught the line.I think I got unbelievably lucky today. Lets be quite honest. I think he deserved it, Federer said. Could be my greatest escape thus far.As for the reason for his difficulties, the 17-time Grand Slam title winner pointed to his spell away from the tour.Midway through the third set I was like, yeah, I have been on vacation actually, so its normal that Im struggling, he said. I was trying to go for an all-time record of missed volleys tonight.Nadal was in so much pain from appendicitis earlier this week, he couldnt sleep, eat or even get out of bed for several days.After an aggressive course of antibiotics to control the inflammation, he felt healthy enough to play his opening match against Lopez. However, his shots lacked depth and power, and his serve didnt have its usual punch.Nadal said he felt a little dizzy from the antibiotics, but otherwise wasnt in a great deal of pain.Even today the doctors told me that I was very, very lucky that I did not have to go for surgery straight, can (treat) with antibiotics, he said. Pain I think is under control. Thats important. I think I was lucky for that.The 14-time major winner had just reeturned to the tour after two months on the sidelines with a wrist injury. Garrett Celek 49ers Jersey. Now he faces likely surgery to have his appendix removed, which could keep him out of the ATP Tour Finals in London next month.My answer today honestly is Im going to do it after the World Tour Finals. You never know. Depends how the things improve, he said. When you are on the bed for three days, the only thing you want to do is feel better, feel healthy again, and thats it.Murray and Djokovic also moved into the third round with wins.Murray has been on a roll over the last three weeks in China, winning nine of his last 10 matches as he tries to qualify for the ATP Finals. He defeated Jerzy Janowicz of Poland 7-5, 6-2.He next faces David Ferrer, another player fighting for a spot in the elite eight-man field. Ferrer rallied to beat Martin Klizan 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4.I havent been in this position for a while, so in some ways its kind of new, Murray said of the fight to qualify for London. But Im enjoying it so far. Just giving me a little bit of extra focus and direction for the last few tournaments.With Chinese basketball star Yao Ming in the stands, Djokovic extended his unbeaten streak in China to 26 straight matches with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Dominic Thiem of Austria, at 21, the youngest player in the top 50.Djokovic had never played Thiem before and he was impressed by the Austrians power game.I had to be on alert from the start because he was serving already 215 kilometres per hour (133 mph) in the first service games, he said. He was going for it. I dont blame him. Hes a young player, playing on centre court, its his opportunity to shine.Kei Nishikori and Stan Wawrinka were among a number of seeds to be knocked out.The fourth-seeded Wawrinka lost early for the second straight week, squandering a 3-0 lead in the final set before falling to Gilles Simon 5-7, 7-5, 6-4. He lost to 103rd-ranked Tatsuma Ito in the first round of the Japan Open last week.Wawrinka said hes struggled to maintain his focus since his breakthrough win at the Australian Open, causing the early losses to pile up.Its been an amazing year, but really tough, also, he said. Its not easy to stay at the top. You really have to find your way.For Nishikori, a dominant stretch of tennis finally caught up with him. Coming off back-to-back titles in Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo, the Japanese star was bothered by pain in his hip and back in his match against big-serving American Jack Sock, losing 7-6 (5), 6-4.Other winners include Tomas Berdych, Julien Benneteau and John Isner.With files from The Canadian Press. NFL Jerseys China ' ' '