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DH13 posted:
Henry posted:

Not a revolutionary thought but more looking at Mayo and Rodgers going all chicken salad when they can.  

An explanation for the name "Mayo" and for Lynch's advice to "take care of your chicken" all makes sense now.  We are approaching the singularity here at X4.

Chicken salad.  Check.

I'll be eating chicken salad during the game for good luck.

Titans/Chiefs - The Titans had a good warmup for Mahomes with Jackson and played a great game last week, although Baltimore really self-destructed. Henry is no joke and the Titans will be able to control the pace of the game and slow things down. But, the rust is off for KC and they won't be making the kind of mistakes they made against Houston. It could be close for 3 quarters but the Chiefs should pull away in the 4th and win this one.

49'ers/Packers - The Packers have been a great surprise this year, surpassing all expectations when it was looking like a long, gruelling re-build for the next 2-3 years with lots of questions to be answered. Kudos to MLF and Gutie for making it happen, they have a great thing going. This will not be the Packers we saw in week 12 and I expect them to come out swinging and be competitive. Garoppolo has shown the ability to get the ball out fast when needed and the 49'ers should be able to continue the trend of molesting the middle of the field if the Pack can't stone their running game early. I just think SF has put together a pretty good group and is a year ahead of the Packers in their development. Hope I'm wrong, but Winner: 49'ers

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Wilde on Rodgers: is he getting hot, or not?

Some interesting analysis/comments from Matt We Want The Ball And We're Gonna Score

 

Hot or not?

Three days after his team’s 37-8 blowout loss to the San Francisco 49ers on Nov. 24 — the Green Bay Packers’ last loss this season — Rodgers stood at his locker and explained what he thought his team would need to do to rebound and set itself up for a playoff run.

“Offensively,” Rodgers said in part that Wednesday afternoon, “I’ve got to take the lead and get hot.”



Win one for the old man?

At age 36 and nine years removed from his last trip, Rodgers seemed amused Wednesday that many of his younger teammates have taken up a win-one-for-the-old-guy mantra on his behalf.

“I haven’t really heard a lot of that,” said Rodgers, adding that he took a similar tack in 2010 for Charles Woodson and Donald Driver and in 2014 for Julius Peppers. “But I do appreciate that.”



“I was hot in a couple of ‘em,” Rodgers said with a self-deprecating chuckle Wednesday.



...he was undeniably hot against the Seahawks, going 16 of 27 for 243 yards with two touchdowns, no interceptions and two sacks for a 113.7 rating (his fourth-highest of the season) with a host of clutch throws with the game on the line.

 

He also finished the DET game on a positive trend. Last 3 drives: TD, Int, FG 7 of 11, 90 yds, TD, Int.

Is this the Rodgers we get on Sunday?

Hasselbeck's comments:

“I think what happens in the media a lot of times is people pull up stats. They pull up statistics and while they tell part of the story, they don’t tell the whole story,” explained ex-Packers backup quarterback Matt Hasselbeck, who played 17 NFL seasons and is now an NFL analyst for ESPN. “I think that’s happened with Aaron Rodgers this year.

“I basically was told (by ESPN), ‘Hey, Aaron Rodgers is having a down year. Can you tell us why?’ So I turned on the tape and really studied the tape. The game that I watched when that happened, he had three drops, six throwaways and all his other incompletions were shot plays — 1-on-1s downfield, 50/50 balls. If I was the quarterback coach grading him, he would have had no incompletions I’d have put on him. And this was a game where people were writing about him struggling.”

“I just think their offense is a work in progress. But I think he could end up having one of the best finishes to this season that you could put up against any other year of his career if they’re able to finish this thing and end up in Miami.”

The season as a whole and as recently as @ DET showed AR and MLF still working on finding plays that click.  Vs DET it was the deep ball.  I think they knew they could find enough plays to win when they needed to so they pushed the deep shots as often as they could to try to get something to hit.  Last Sunday was MLF distilling the gameplan down to things he knows works and it was enough.  No more experiments other than a few tweaks here and there.

Hungry5 posted:

Rodgers was really off v DET in wk17, until he wasn't.

Last 3 drives: TD, Int, FG 7 of 11, 90 yds, TD, Int

I saw that, especially the 3 of 3 on the FG winning drive, and saw he had it.

Then he followed up v SEA with a very good game.

I wouldn't bet against him Sun in SFO.

It's interesting to hear Rodgers describe that game. He believes he threw the ball well on those long throws that ended up being incompletions. I would love an explanation of what the issue was...receiver letting CB reroute? Just a poor route? Receiver needs to track the ball better and adjust? 

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ChilliJon posted:

There are like 7 NFC Title Game threads which is fucking nonsense because NOBODY  picked this to happen but everyone is predicting a tough loss but they hope they’re wrong because dealing with failure is just padding a soft landing.

Win  The. Game. Don’t be a dick. Be a fan. 

 

 

I want you to write my obituary.

Pretty sure it will be blunt.

Pakrz posted:

I just have a feeling that GB is going to win this football game.  I think both lines will play well and the team will limit mistakes  There's also going to be an oddball TD in the form of a pick 6 or a PR/KR. 

I'm going with 27-17.  

I can't stand Florio, but he pointed out that the margin of error in the first game didn't exactly match the score. I was thinking it this week, before the article, and I think people may be surprised if the Pack shows up differently this time. As good as the SF front 4/front 7 is, losing Bulaga was a big key in wk 12. Unforced and forced mistakes/penalties/turnovers played a major part in that first half. In fact, I remember the thread and how so many of us were happy to be down just 7...just 10...just 13. From there it snowballed. Taking nothing away from SF- they whooped GB hands down. But when this Packer team stays out of its own way, they can compete with anyone. They may not get the W, but I'm definitely feeling better about their chances today than I did earlier in the week. Dictate the tempo, play your own game, and do your best to keep SF off balance, and you have a fighting chance. Remember, it was 24(?) years ago GB went to SF and shocked the world. And sent the message they had arrived. Still one of my top 5 GB memories of all time. 

MNPackman posted:
Pakrz posted:

I just have a feeling that GB is going to win this football game.  I think both lines will play well and the team will limit mistakes  There's also going to be an oddball TD in the form of a pick 6 or a PR/KR. 

I'm going with 27-17.  

I hope like hell you are right.

Die-hard Packer fan so biased, but I get the same vibe.  Gotta get the lead early and then control the game flow.  It could happen.  

ChilliJon posted:

There are like 7 NFC Title Game threads which is fucking nonsense because NOBODY  picked this to happen but everyone is predicting a tough loss but they hope they’re wrong because dealing with failure is just padding a soft landing.

Win  The. Game. Don’t be a dick. Be a fan. 

Ok, yes I took off my Green & Gold goggles for this one. Keepin' it real doesn't make a Packer victory any less sweet or a loss any less bitter. So, with the goggles on: Packers win if all the stars are aligned and everything comes together at once. And just to be sure we all feel good...

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Pistol GB posted:

I agree with whoever said CTFB on defense. SF is probably the better team, but the Packers are good enough overall to keep it close. 2 INT’s will be the difference. Alexander and Amos.

30-27 Pack. Underdogs all day.  KC wins but doesn’t cover.  Super Bowl I rematch. It’s destiny.

"SF is probably the better team..." --but the Packers are the best team SF will face on Sunday. Packers win this one 31-24. Two SF turnovers are the key to the GB victory. One INT and one fumble recovery dash SF's chances of moving on to the Super Bowl!  KC beats the Titans because they stopped Henry when they had to. KC 24 Tennessee 17.

Packy posted:
MNPackman posted:
Pakrz posted:

I just have a feeling that GB is going to win this football game.  I think both lines will play well and the team will limit mistakes  There's also going to be an oddball TD in the form of a pick 6 or a PR/KR. 

I'm going with 27-17.  

I hope like hell you are right.

Die-hard Packer fan so biased, but I get the same vibe.  Gotta get the lead early and then control the game flow.  It could happen.  

It will happen.

PackerPatrick posted:

Hooray we made it this far. I wish that this game was being played in GB. But even this die hard fan cannot see us pulling this one out on the left coast. The Niners are too fast and peaking at the wrong time. We lose by a touchdown in a hard fought game. 

They peaked.  They beat a joke of a Minny team and Kendricks almost picked Jimmy G twice. 

Oline does their job and Jimmy G doesn't.  Packers win this game.  Like it or not, they just need to do what they've done all ugly season and there is zero reason to believe they can't.  No game is the same and the stakes are higher.  There's plenty of green punks on that team.  The Packers QB and tackles have been in the playoffs plenty enough.  Quit dwelling on November. 

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I just don’t have a good feeling about this game.  They beat us pretty handily last time even while missing several key players.  Kwon and Dee back in the mix certainly doesn’t help our chances.   No answer for Kittle.  I think we hang with them early only to get worn down and the Forty Whiners walk away in the end.  A little better showing than last time, but not enough.

13-30

PackerPatrick posted:

 even this die hard fan cannot see us pulling this one out on the left coast. 

Didn't you pick Seattle to win too? Asking for a friend. 

Henry posted:

They peaked.  They beat a joke of a Minny team and Kendricks almost picked Jimmy G twice. 

I watched the way the Niners attacked Vikings in 2nd half. Run the ball. Same thing Packers did on a Monday Night. Don't tell me they didn't use some tape from Green Bay to beat the Vikings. Packers beat them twice. That's no accident. 

Anyone that thinks Packers can't win this game is either....

1) A Viking fan. 

2) Doesn't know football. 

I promise you, the Niners are ready. Their fans are terrified due to previous games where Packers beat them. 

Packers are in the fans psyche. Some Niner players might be over confident but Shanahan has done a good job this week drilling it into their heads that the November game doesn't mean shit. 

It's going to be a war. I fully expect controversy, gut wrenching plays, elation. Yes full on roller coaster ride. I wouldn't want it any other way.

If this train ride ends on Sunday night, so be it. What a fantastic successful season this has been. 

Troy posted:
lovepack posted:

Home teams cover. Easily.

You should change your name to hate pack.  I hope the Packers win and you're fucking miserable.

You pretty much covered the essence of lovepack’s body of work on this forum.

What an oxymoron of a name, with emphasis on “moron”.

TouchdownWhitewaterJesus posted:

I just don’t have a good feeling about this game.  They beat us pretty handily last time even while missing several key players.  Kwon and Dee back in the mix certainly doesn’t help our chances.   No answer for Kittle.  I think we hang with them early only to get worn down and the Forty Whiners walk away in the end.  A little better showing than last time, but not enough.

13-30

Tell me you didn't type that with your Garoppolo jersey on! 

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YooperPackfan posted:

Believe or not Florio picked us to win

That's the fucking kiss of death.

However, I think Green Bay will get smoked so put some money on them. That almost always means they will win.

And I'm taking the Titans. 20 degrees in KC tomorrow. Those little fast guys don't usually do as well when it's cold. Big, monstrous RBs thrive. When you're cold getting beat to hell hurts even more.

TN 27 KC 24

GB 31 SF 27

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