Patrick Willis is a good player, but his stats have been tailing off.
Only 2.5 sacks in his last 32 games. Hasn't had over 100 tackles since 2010. His best tackling year was his rookie year and none of the rest is close. I'm sure getting Bowman and Smith probably takes away a few chances, but also having them around makes things easier. Though now Smith is gone until whenever, so we'll see what happens.
He's a great talent, and Bowman might even be better, so I would still say SF is better. If Washington didn't have his off the field problems though, I'd take Washington over all of them. Dansby is solid, but Bowman is also unsung. So while I give the nod to SF, our tandem isn't far behind.
Anyways, I posted Willis's stats below and you can see him trending downwards which is something people should be aware of. He's coming back to earth, and most people haven't realized it yet. Another one of SF's good players who is hyped way past what he actually is. Well imo.
Year Team G Solo Ast Total Sack YdsL Int Yds IntTD FF PD Sfty
2007 SF 16 135 39 174 4.0 9 0 0 0 2 5 0
2008 SF 16 109 32 141 1.0 5 1 86 1 1 10 0
2009 SF 16 114 38 152 4.0 22 3 33 1 3 8 0
2010 SF 15 101 27 128 6.0 46 0 0 0 2 5 0
2011 SF 13 74 23 97 2.0 12 1 10 0 4 12 0
2012 SF 16 88 32 120 0.5 5 2 2 0 2 9 0
2013 SF 3 14 5 19 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals 95 635 196 831 17.5 99 7 131 2 14 49 0