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RUSH: The NFL<\/a> championship games are this Sunday. If I\u2019ve got this right, and I know I do, the early game at three o\u2019clock is the San Francisco Fort\u2019iners and the Atlanta Falcons in the Georgia dome, and the late game is the Patriots hosting the Baltimore Ravens. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look at the first game first since it comes first. In fact, probably the most important factor in both games happens to be two quarterbacks. In the case in the Fort\u2019iners and Falcons, the quarterback in question is Colin Kaepernick, known affectionately to some backwards, old-fashioned dryballs as Tattoo Man. Colin Kaepernick cannot be planned for. You know, defensive coordinates love to come up with a game plan. You look at hours\u2019 worth of tape of the opposing offense. You see tendencies. You see formations. You see snap counts. You see plays. You see, when do they pass off that formation, when do they run off that formation, when do they fake, who goes in motion, when not, what does a quarterback do on every play. <\/p>\n

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The problem for every team playing the 49ers is Kaepernick, the quarterback. He doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s gonna do in most plays. I mean, he\u2019s got the script, but the guy is a classic sandlot quarterback. In the last game the Fort\u2019iners played, he led the team in rushing as a quarterback. That doesn\u2019t happen in the NFL. Now, eventually NFL teams, defensive coordinators, are gonna come up with a way — in fact, this is the role, I should say, that the Jets said they had planned for Tim Tebow. Never happened. <\/p>\n

The Falcons just haven\u2019t had enough time here to plan for Kaepernick. He took the job over halfway through the season, week six, I think, week seven, and there\u2019s not enough data on him to know when he\u2019s gonna take off, the run option, when he\u2019s gonna use it, when he\u2019s gonna throw it, and so defenses have to lay back and play soft and can\u2019t really plan for what the guy\u2019s gonna do. And plus the 49ers are a great road team. <\/p>\n

Jim Harbaugh, the coach of the Fort\u2019iners, has somehow managed — you know, of all the West Coast teams, I remember every Raiders game this year, if you listen to pregame analysis from the wizards of smart on ESPN, or anywhere, they would all say the Raiders traveling east, time zone change, one o\u2019clock game, starting the game ten o\u2019clock, body clock time, don\u2019t have a prayer. And the Raiders never did win in the Eastern time zone at one o\u2019clock. It doesn\u2019t affect the Fort\u2019iners. It doesn\u2019t affect the Seahawks much, either, and it\u2019s not said to affect the 49ers. I don\u2019t know where the 49ers are practicing. I think they stayed in San Francisco, but one week they spent in Youngstown, Ohio. It\u2019s where the DeBartolo family is, getting ready for it. But it ain\u2019t gonna matter. <\/p>\n

I think the quarterback is the big difference in the game. He\u2019s still a rookie, Matt Ryan, the quarterback for the Falcons. This is only his second playoff game, too, so I think Kaepernick is the guy to watch. If he has a typically good Kaepernick game, plus that defensive line for the Fort\u2019iners — I have to go with the Fort\u2019iners in the game. And the Patriots and the Ravens, and again that\u2019s a quarterback game, and that\u2019s Tom Brady. And if Tom Brady\u2019s on your team, you win. Brady\u2019s playoff record at home is astounding. Now, since Spygate they\u2019ve had some troubles going all the way, admittedly so. I\u2019m just doing this straight up. I don\u2019t even know what the points are, I\u2019m just doing it straight up, so I\u2019d have to go with the Super Bowl being the Fort\u2019iners and the Patriots. <\/p>\n

Many of you are gonna be disappointed at this. Many of you are looking for an all Harbaugh Super Bowl<\/a>, because John Harbaugh, the coach of the Ravens, Jim Harbaugh, the coach of the Fort\u2019iners, but don\u2019t sweat it, the coaches don\u2019t play. You know, after all the hype, brother against brother, they\u2019re not playing. Mind against mind. How do you watch that in a football game? So that\u2019s the picks. I thought about doing environmentalist wacko picks, but I thought, no, we\u2019ll go straight up here. It\u2019s been a while since we did this anyway and treated it seriously. Until there\u2019s other data, if, for example, players on the 49ers, any of them have imaginary relationships with girls that don\u2019t exist<\/a>, if that surfaces and comes out, you\u2019ve gotta factor that. So far we don\u2019t know that that happens anywhere but Notre Dame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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