Gameday at Packers.com:
2013 Week 1 Green Bay @ San Fransicso
Sunday, Sep 08, 2013 at 3:25PM CDT
Weather:
79 Degrees
46% Humidity
0% Chance of Rain
8mph Wind
With The Call:
Play-by-play man Joe Buck and color analyst Troy Aikman will have the call from the broadcast booth with Pam Oliver reporting from the sidelines.
Packers Pregame Radio Show (starts two hours before the game):
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Gamecenter/Rosters:
GREEN BAY’S ROSTER BY AGE (as of Sept. 8):
21-24 - 25 players
25-28 - 19 players
29-32 - 7 players
33-plus - 2 players
BY EXPERIENCE:
R-1 - 13 players
2-3 - 12 players
4-5 - 15 players
6-9 - 11 players
10-plus - 2 players
Captains:
Officials:
Referee- Bill Leavy #127
(Bill Leavy's last Packer game was the Giants playoff game in 2011-2012)
Umpire- Ruben Fowler #71
Head Linesman- John McGrath #5
Line Judge- Mark Perlman #9
Field Judge- Jimmy Buchanan #86
Side Judge- Keith Parham #87
Back Judge- Keith Ferguson #61
Inactives:
(will update when they're posted)
Video:
Packers at 49ers: NFL Films game preview
Final Thoughts With Mike Spofford and Vic Ketchman
Around The Locker Room and MM talk about the game
Packers-49ers Week 1 Dope Sheet
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Sunday’s matchup will feature two of the three teams in the NFL to have won 24 or more regular-season games over the past two years. Since 2011, Green Bay has a 26-6 mark (.813) in the regular season, No. 1 in the league over that span. San Francisco is 24-7-1 (.765) since ’11, No. 3 in the NFL behind only the Packers and New England (25-7, .781).
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, this will be the first Week 1 matchup since 1991 featuring two teams that have won 24-plus games over the previous two regular seasons. On Sept. 2, 1991, San Francisco (28 wins from 1989-90) visited the N.Y. Giants (25 wins from 1989-90) in Week 1 on Monday Night Football.
QB Aaron Rodgers has not thrown an interception in 144 consecutive passing attempts in the regular season, the longest current streak in the league. He has not had a two-INT game in 39 straight regular-season starts, the longest streak in NFL history since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger. continue
One last look: Surprises on tap for opener in San Francisco
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Mike McCarthy has said many times that 20 to 30 percent of the snaps in a Week 1 game are what he refers to as “unscouted looks.”
By all indications, McCarthy and his staff have gained a decent edge over the years in that department. After a shutout loss in McCarthy’s first game as head coach in 2006, the Packers won five straight season openers.
But the Packers might have met their match last year, and they got a double dose of unscouted looks from the offense of the San Francisco 49ers.
In the opener, the 49ers came out scripted and sharp, putting the Packers on their heels as quarterback Alex Smith directed four straight scoring drives in the first half (one TD, three FGs). Only a Clay Matthews third-down sack on the opening drive of the game stopped San Francisco from going 5-for-5 out of the gate, but the 16-7 halftime hole was still too deep for Green Bay in a 30-22 defeat.
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Speaking of peculiar, here’s a rarity: The Packers haven’t seen their season end with a postseason loss and then had to face that same team in the next year’s opener in 71 years.
In 1941, the Chicago Bears beat the Packers in the Western Division playoff, 33-14. The rematch in the ’42 opener was also taken by the Bears, 44-28.
That ancient history will be irrelevant come Sunday, but last year’s double dose of unscouted looks from the 49ers won’t be. The Packers will have to regain their Week 1 edge, and they certainly plan to. They’ve spoken all week that they believe they can turn the tide back their way. continue
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