Jikkle
Well-Known Member
What does that mean "take your foot off the gas"? Does anyone think the Niners stopped trying in the second half? An all time great QB was slinging it from a big deficit and scored a couple TDs. It's not like the Niners said "meh let's not try this half"
It's not that they weren't trying it's just that they went for a "Let them kill the clock and don't give up anything big" defense.
They were simply more aggressive in the 1st half trying to shutdown the Packers offense compared to the 2nd half where they were content in letting the Packers have the small stuff as long as they didn't get beat big which unfortunately they let happen twice.