GO PACK GO!!!
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++++Thanks to Deebo. His flub turned it all around.
++++Thanks to X for taking advantage
+ we won. We’re 8-3 in the toughest division in the NFL.
+ Jacobs, McKinney
+ Van Ness mentioned in positive manner.
- Jordan Love could have easily had three turnovers today. Luckily, he had none. He needs to freaking play better, and I’m getting a bit tired of saying that.
We won’t go anywhere in the playoffs with him being so careless.
+ Heath!
+Van Ness with a pulse!
+ Ryan with the road grader
+Walker with a couple of plays
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Josh Jacobs is a beast.
Xavier McKinney is playing like a 1st team All-Pro.
Aside from Doubs, this was a pretty healthy game for a team playing in 4 days.
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Gary and Clark are still MIA.
Queens stole a win and the damn Lions don't lose.
++++ Josh Jacobs.
+++ McKinney & Gutey for going out and getting both of them.
++ The OLine dominated.
+ Doubs, Bullard, Kraft, and LVN. (Let’s all say a prayer that LVN can make some more impact plays going forward).
- Only 1 negative tonight. After the best performance of his career last week in Chicago, C. Watson can’t drop that ball, he just can’t.
+++A drubbing in Lambeau. Jacobs with 3 TDs. Heath and Kraft with TDs. Defense created turnovers! Run game came alive. Defense came alive.
---Doubs injury. Some bad passes by Love. vikings beat the Bears. Lions win. Watson dropped a sure TD.
@SteveLuke posted:the best performance of his career last week in Chicago, C. Watson can’t drop that ball, he just can’t.
It was his 1st of the year. I'd much rather see him do it in a 38-10 blowout in the regular season vs the playoffs.
+ The team/staff/fans got a good look at what type of offense the Packers need to play to be successful. Lean on the run.
+ The late game slot combined with my nervous energy, allowed me to get a shitload of my honey-do list accomplished. (It will fill back up by tomorrow)
+ Plus three in turnovers. Yes, Love had a few that coulda/shoulda been picked off, but that's how it goes.
+ Took care of a team that was ripe to lose. If you can't beat a team that is missing it's best defensive player and starting QB, you ain't that good.
+ Cruised to a win without playing the perfect game.
- Watson's drop
- Walker's drop
+ O MVP Jacobs 106yds rushing, TD hat trick
+ D MVP McKinney 4th down stop, INT with 50yd return
+ ST MVP McManus 51 yd FG when game was close
- Love still out of sync, could've had 3 INTs
- Christian Dropson, momentum changer b4 half time, similar to Love's INT last week vs Bares.
- Drop off at CB with 28 out
- D hot and cold but...
+++ Ugly win over conference rival is so sweeeeeet!
Paws
+ Doesn’t feel like we played a great game offensively but still put up a big number.
+ Could be the start of a good run to end the season.
Negs
- The underwear draft champs showing why they are not football champs. Quay looked like a 12 year old girl trying to catch a football. I’m sure he can dominate in the long jump though. Watson has horrible ball skills.
There are only 6 games left in the regular season….. the next four are ALL AT NIGHT!!!! I HATE NIGHT GAMES, then they end with the queens, and the bears. Not sure about our ♥️ guy. He is still in that throw at any cost mode. HE DAMN NEAR HAD INT’s. AGAIN. 🤬 🤬 🤬 sometimes they’re ok, other times, they’re gonna lose games. Ugh……..
Positives:
An NFC win
Any win over SF is a good thing. They were short handed but a win is a win in the NFL. And it put SF in to a hole to catch up in the playoff picture which I hope continues and we won't have to face them again down the road.
I love that they ran the damn ball and stuck to it and imposed their will offensively. Really good to see them do that and out physical a physical team for a change.
Negatives:
Watson is so streaky. Last week he was on fire and this week he had MVS type of stone hands.
-Seems like 10 went into F'it mode at the end of the first half after Watson's drop.
+Surprised to see 10 had 107 rating today (my eyes figured about 80).
-QB rating doesn't match up with eye test
+A win
Positives
McKinney makes winning plays when the opportunity presents itself.
With the exception of maybe 1-2 throws, Love played a safe, game-manager type game. If Watson catches the perfect pass in the last minute of the first half, his stats look a lot better.
Luke Van Ness actually made a play.
Gutey knew he needed a safety and signed an all-pro.
Negatives
Walker and Watson often fail to make plays when the opportunity presents itself.
It seemed like Love was going out of his way to get the ball to Watson after the drop and it almost caused some turnovers.
Gutey should have known he needed an edge rusher and did nothing.
All I know is we kicked their ass and I'm satisfied with the big win. Improve and and have a fish dinner on Thursday night. Boil the Dolphins.
@lambeausouth posted:
+ Van Ness mentioned in positive manner.
Wait..what did I miss?
Should also mention that Whelan is the best punter in GB since Craig Hentrich and McManus has been so consistent that I am back to expecting field goals and extras points to go in rather than watching with trepidation.
@SteveLuke posted:Should also mention that Whelan is the best punter in GB since Craig Hentrich and McManus has been so consistent that I am back to expecting field goals and extras points to go in rather than with trepidation.
If we feel this way about place kicks, imagine how much of a weight this lifts off the actual players on the team.
What, no it's Dolphins week thread? Let's go!
@DurangoDoug posted:All I know is we kicked their ass and I'm satisfied with the big win. Improve and and have a fish dinner on Thursday night. Boil the Dolphins.
"Squish the fish" is what they say in Buffalo.
Biggest Minus: I keep hoping that we’ll see Jordan Love take another step in development and move closer to being an elite QB. He still didn’t take that step this week and unfortunately for him, the best pass he made all day was the dropped bomb by Christian Watson.
Biggest Plus: Defense got a bunch of turnovers. McKinney’s INT on the Deebo tipped pass was huge.
2nd biggest plus: Josh Jacobs was incredible. I didn’t feel like he had great blocking today, he just sort of made his own holes on a number of occasions.
@The Heckler posted:Positives:
An NFC win
Any win over SF is a good thing. They were short handed but a win is a win in the NFL. And it put SF in to a hole to catch up in the playoff picture which I hope continues and we won't have to face them again down the road.
I love that they ran the damn ball and stuck to it and imposed their will offensively. Really good to see them do that and out physical a physical team for a change.
Negatives:
Watson is so streaky. Last week he was on fire and this week he had MVS type of stone hands.
He's not really streaky, he has a clear deficiency in tracking throws over his head and shoulders.
Watson struggles to track the ball in the air when he's running away from the line of scrimmage. On the catches last week, he was able to run parallel to the line of scrimmage and track the ball coming at him. He was good with the jump ball into double coverage last week because he could sit and wait for it a bit. He's good on crossing routes and fine on post patterns.
If he has to track it over his head and catch it over his shoulders, no matter easy the catch looks, he really struggles.
How did Myers do today? Seems like the big uglies were pretty solid.
Packers O-Line was solid all game. Jenkins had a penalty early & Rhyan had a penalty but overall they were excellent as they should've been with the Niners minus their best pass rusher.
Still have stuff to work on but winning by 4 TD's over the Niners is excellent work.
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Comfortable win
Josh Jacobs
Defensive takeaways
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Walker and Watson drops
Love made a couple of careless decisions with the football and fortunately it didn't cost the team.
Doubs injury on a short week.
@michiganjoe posted:Doubs injury on a short week.
Looks like he may have smacked his head on the turf when he landed. Probably needs to pass concussion protocol which isn't easy to do in 4 days.
Keisean Nixon doesn't want to hear that the 49ers were banged up:
— Matt Schneidman (@mattschneidman) November 25, 2024
"It's the NFL. It's not an excuse. We didn't have our quarterback. We won three games, so we don't wanna hear that. We came to play. They should've came to play."
Concussions are the most difficult to predict as far as how quickly guys get cleared. Although players have returned the following week, as Boris pointed out I don't know if anyone has cleared in 4 days. I shudder when I think back too playing in high school and being encouraged to "lead with you head" when tackling. The goal was to get every opponents helmet color on your helmet 
- I didn't get to see the game.
+ The Packers were absolutely dominant in the highlights that I watched later.
The missed tackles by SF in the first half being at an NFL record level was very interesting. They were without Bosa but him being on the field wouldn't have made every other player not miss any tackles. Was their DL just not up for the game? Were they not prepared for tackling Jacobs?
Either way that's a huge + for the OL and JJ. Especially considering how their D has always been more physical than our OL in the past.
Chongo had a bunker buster of a comment in the game thread. "Love is an average QB with above average arm talent." That's going to be really hard to get out of my head. And will no doubt have its own thread at some point.
While it's true injuries aren't an excuse and GB won 3 games with their backup QB, Allen's mistakes were the clear differentiator in the game. I'm not 100% convinced they beat SF if Purdy plays.
@DH13 posted:I'm not 100% convinced they beat SF if Purdy plays.
I am. They were close to blowing out the Niners in the first half until Watson dropped that gorgeous pass from our "average" QB with above average arm talent.
I knew they were going to get some takeaways, the key was always going to be...no giveaways....and they had Z-E-R-O.
The biggest loss for the Niners was LT Trent Williams. He's a huge key for the stuff they do on offense. Deebo had a rough day. Let a couple passes slip right thru his hands & on 1 of them, X was right there for the game changer INT.
Purdy isn't tackling Josh Jacobs....neither did any of the other Niners players 🤭😆
A very satisfying win and I am 100% sure they win even with Purdy playing.