49ers vs. Jaguars: San Francisco Quietly Playing Very Well Going into Bye

Remember when the San Francisco 49ers were supposedly on the brink of destruction? They had badly lost two games in a row, Aldon Smith was gone from the team indefinitely and everyone was ready to label Jim Harbaugh's team as a pretender?

Yeah, me neither. 

Since that embarrassing home defeat to the Indianapolis Colts in Week 3, the Niners have quietly reeled off five wins in a row by an average of 22.6 points, looking more and more like last year's NFC championship-winning team with each subsequent week.

At 6-2, they now have what I regard as a perfectly timed bye week—right smack-dab in the middle of the schedule, giving them an opportunity to heal up be...

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