The San Francisco 49ers have been playing down to their competition of MUT 24 Coins late. If it's simply a matter of that, and they can play to their own level when they take on the New England Patriots on Sunday, then we should be in for a very exciting, evenly matched game. But there's an awful lot of inconsistency on the field for the 49ers of late.

Since the change from a winning quarterback in Alex Smith, who boasted a 70-plus completion percentage and a quarterback rating of 100+, San Francisco has turned in a dominant performance or two, mixed with some poor games, including a tie and loss to the St. Louis Rams.

Meanwhile, the Patriots have won seven-straight games, and have two easier contests lined up after this one. They'll be coming hard at San Francisco, hoping to attack their vaunted defense to get the lead early and force Jim Harbaugh to make mistakes like the one he made that cost him the game against the Madden 24 Coins cheap Rams (when Colin Kaepernick botched the toss to Ted Ginn Jr.).