Thank God the NFC West Sucks

Seriously, when the front-runner in your division is a team that beat the rebuilding Dolphins and took advantage of a 49er team that was trying to exploit an old Kurt Warner's ability to throw beyond 8 yards, then things have to be looking up for the Niners no matter how mediocre we are.

Things don't look THAT promising when the '9ers beat a Seahawks squad (that would beg for Steve Largent to come back right now) because you won the OT coin toss. They don't look THAT promising because the week before, you have your CBs give 5 yards of space to the Cardinal's WRs when you know that Warner-to-Boldin for 8 yards have been their bread-and-butter for all of the second half because the 49ers are so scared of the longball, but I'll take what I can get.

What I get is:

-Patrick Willis looking like a fucking champ after his first career INT.
-JT O'Sullivan, despite Mike Martz and the 49er o-line wanting to continue the 49er tradition of their QBs being spectacularly concussion'd, is looking like a decent QB (96.3 passer rating DESPITE 12 sacks and 3 fumbles)
-Frank Gore is actually pretty solid for the Martz system and a different template from the Holmes/Faulk dudes that usually succeed in it. Unfortunately, if no one else steps it up then he'll just be a solid fantasy football guy.
-We have the realistic possibility to sweep the Rams and Seahawks (who we get at home) and get a win back against the Cardinals (if we played like two Div. III high school teams like we have the previous two years as opposed to strategic pro teams like this year -- guess which coaching staff were the tepid bitches) which would make us 5-1 in the division and only an optimistic 5-5 in non-divisional play to take the division title.
-We got the Lions next week (sorry Neil), although their defense is probably familiar with Martz's playcalling and system + overall faggy hubris in thinking he's the shit, meaning it's realistic if their personnel and coaching staff were inspired and solid enough so they can be a poor man's Bucs to the Niner's poor man's Raiders fromt that one Super Bowl.
-Out of the last two weeks, I always look forward to Cardinals games because when we both scrap we both play like aforementioned Div. III HS teams (see Cowboys/Eagles, wk. 2) and the Cardinals are cool as shit for keeping the novelty of gray facemasks in a world were color coordination is crucial for NFL uni's. I always look forward to Seahawks games because we always have a chance to beat the most underrated fuckwit fanbase in the league. Going 1-for-2 is just icing on the cake (how the mighty have fallen in their expectations -- take note, dart adams).
-After the Hawks game, Yahoo had a headline that basically said "Nedney Saves the Niners in OT"as if they failed to remember that he blew a game-winning FG at the end of regulation. But the funny thing is that in the final half-minute of the game, we sat on the ball thinking a 41-yd FG on the road would be a chip shot when we could've ran a stupid ass play. Nedney, no matter how lame a San Jose State tattoo and an NFL logo is on his leg, got the game-winner and I'd rather have a kicker with gay tattoos like than a QB like Chris Simms who has his roommate's name tattoo'd on his ankle.
-Misery will come later this season, but at 1-1 and seeing how truly atrocious our division is then optimism can come in the name of the NFC fucking WEST aka the Mid-Atlantic Conference of the NFL. Winning this division is all I can hope for, really.