Robotech
Well-Known Member
The 9ers are a great team and the Packers are a good team and it's the NFL and the playoffs and we see good teams beat great teams all the time. Weird and unexpected things happen much like the Texans and Chiefs game and that's why you still play the game on Sunday.
On paper at least I gotta say it's not looking good for the Packers.
The 9ers throttled the Packers week 12 and that's when the Packers were coming off a bye week. 9ers didn't have Joe Staley, Dee Ford, Kwon Alexander, Robbie Gould, and Matt Breida. George Kittle played but he was a bit gimpy with his knee and ankle and Deeboo Samuel and Emmanuel Sanders were banged up as well.
They are missing D.J Jones who had a really good game in the middle but overall they are a lot more healthier and rested than they were in week 12.
Still I expect it to be a closer score than it was week 12 but I haven't seen anything from the Packers since that first game to suggest the outcome will be drastically different.
I think Green Bay would need an out of this world performance or a lot of mistakes from the 9ers to win.
Yeah, everything has fallen perfectly for the Niners ever since that Greenlaw play to stop the Seahawks inches short. The Niners probably aren't even in the conference title game without that play. With how things have been set up, the Niners have no excuse to lose this one. They rested up and got guys back from injuries. They even get one more day of rest than the Packers.
That said, I don't think any team has lost more conference title games than the Niners. And Rodgers is a great QB and we can expect adjustments from the Packers. Hopefully, the adjustments don't work.