San Francisco 49ers up for utilising home-field advantage – NFL News
San Francisco 49ers won seven of their eight regular season games on home last season as they went on to lead National Football Conference (NFC) West and qualify for the playoffs.
This year, they have only played one home game (against Detroit Lions) so far and won it. 49ers are now going to play five of their next six games on home and they are hoping to repeat the last year’s heroics in front of home crowd to qualify for playoffs
once again.
In Week 5, 49ers are hosting Buffalo Bills. They will receive the defending Super Bowl champions New York Giants in Week 6 and Seattle Seahawks in Week 7.
After playing their Week 8 game on road against Arizona Cardinals and having their bye week in Week 9, 49ers will host St. Louis Rams and Chicago Bears in Week 10 and 11 respectively.
49ers are 3-1 after the first four weeks of the season and not leading the division. As they prepare to start their three-game home stretch from this Sunday, 49ers head coach Jim Harbaugh is confident of extracting maximum gains out of it.
According to the details present on the team’s website, Harbaugh said of the home games:
“Well, we’re very hopeful and very determined to take advantage of it. And I kind of liken it to … you’ve got the ankle weights on that some people work out with. In our case, the guys pull chains, big chains when they run. You’re kind of taking those off.
You’ve done some hard things as it relates to travel. But, you’ve still got to have that edge. You’ve got to have that saltiness, that attitude to go fight, bad taste in your mouth kind of thing. There’s a lot to that, too. So, we need both.”
If 49ers are able to maintain hundred percent win record in their next three straight home games they might as well take the lead in NFC West. However, the division standing will also depend on the performance of other teams, but since 49ers are well capable
of maintaining hundred percent record on home, they have strong chance of leading the division.
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