Last year it was the Giants in the NFCCG, this year we get Green Bay in the divisional round of the playoffs. The Niners seem to be meeting old friends in these playoffs. Green Bay leads the all-time series, one that has seen 62 meetings dating back to 1950. Green Bay leads 34-27-1. Green bay also owns the playoff meetings. In the last 5 playoff meetings between the 2 teams, Green Bay is 4-1. The lone win for the Niners is the Owens Owens Owens! wildcard win back in 1999. The last playoff meeting betwee the 2 teams was in the 2001 wildcard round. The Niners lost in Lambeau 25-15 in a meeting between Brett Favre and Jeff Garcia.
Now? Well, the prognosticators are pretty much giving the game to Green Bay. At least the ones I’ve been seeing. It’s hard to bet against Aaron Rodgers, but Rodgers had a healthy team at the start of the season, and the Niners pretty much flattened them. If not for a gift punt return where the replacement refs missed 2 blatant blocks in the back when they picked up their flags and ate them. Still, the Niners won fairly easily. Saturday night however, the Niners will have their playoff rookie, Colin Kaepernick, behind center, and a team that is banged up a good bit. Gone are Kendall Hunter, Mario Manningham, Kyle Williams, and a limited Justin Smith. In their place are LaMichael James (good), Ted Ginn (bad), and AJ Jenkins (ugly), and a fair Ricky Jean Francois. I hope to see Randy Moss used more, and having Jenkins do more than get one look would help. Still not enough deep balls being thrown to either Moss or Jenkins.
Other than that, the formula remains the same for the Niners. Get to Rodgers early and often. They did that in the first meeting this year, and Rodgers was obviously rattled. If Justin Smith isn’t providing enough support for Aldon Smith, then the Niners should move Aldon around to force mismatches and get him in Rodgers’ face. Offensively? Well, the Niners aren’t going to suddenly go 4 wide and pistol formation every down, but certainly that is something that they should try on occasion. During Kappy’s time at UNR running the pistol, he had 2 RBs go over 1,000 yards the same year. Running out of the spread can be very effective, and Gore has done it the few times we have tried it. Get that going, and play-action out of that works great.
Minimize turnovers, force Rodgers into bad decisions or sacks, and get some early points on the board. Game over. I think I said 34-17, and I’m sticking with that.
Forty Niners Forever 
Did we ever have Ryan Longwell in for a look? It’s hard for me to imagine that Billy Cundiff is better than Longwell.
If they did, Seattle just signed Longwell (and DE Chukwuruha) to keep him off of the Niners.
BLEEP Seattle. I pray they lose big time in Atlanta.
Seattle signed him because their kick pulled up lame in the Redskins game and was put on IR. Didn’t look serious, but I guess it was.
Freakin all FG kickers are lame.Now we have TWO in camp.Lamekers& LameCunt.
Musta missed that, Spit. Didn’t see the game . . .
Young just said the 49ers need to get home with 4, and that Harbaugh has to limit Kaepernick. There’s insight for you…….
Spitty shut the fuck up about how I run this place.
And what the hell does get home with 4 mean? Gang bang?
Gang bang? BLEEP!
“Defensively, Young thinks the 49ers have to get pressure with four and drop everyone else into coverage. If the defense can’t do that, Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers will dictate his offense the way he chooses.
“If they can create havoc with four guys, that’s the secret sauce,” Young said. “Other than that, it’s all Aaron Rodgers.”
http://blog.sfgate.com/49ers/2013/01/09/steve-young-on-what-colin-kaepernick-must-do-against-green-bay/
The latest of the bizzare Jimbo Quotes..
On Justin Smith’s avalability Saturday night, he said:”God willing if the creek don’t rise”
So if the creek rises to high,are we up the creek without a paddle?
it’s more nonsense from Harbaugh, anyone that listens to a thing he says to the press is wasting their time. He’s just fucking with the questions from the press with everything he says, I can’t believe anyone can miss this…………
Yes we are IF… But we could try to “praise the Lord and pass the ammunition” Might work
Our DB’s are gonna have to play their best game this week GB has 3 top WR’s that all catch balls in the middle. It will probably be the most active Willis and Bowman have been in a while. We HAVE to figure a way to get to Rodgers. I think we should run a no huddle offense for the most part and KEEP all penalties to a minimum(hear that db’s and ol-men) 41 – 34 Niners
I’ll update on the next thread Winder
Spit, saying you’re jinxing us by picking the Niners to *stop* Gb isn’t a jinx. It’s just another blathering pick from a no-nothing blogger. You’re as good as your last pick and you correctly recalled your failure last year with the Saint game. I went with a confident Niner win pick that day.
Then I went 0-4 this week with my playoff picks.
That makes both of us dipshit prognosticators. Stand down and let others who haven’t failed go before you (if that blogger exists)……
Everyone fails, or Vegas wouldn’t be rich.
Looks like Flavor got drunk…… good for him. Lol.
Just about everyone was 3-1 last week. I’ll put up a thread tomorrow about picking this weekend’s games.
I can almost guarantee, no one is going to go 11-0 for the post-season. If it was that easy, we’d all make Vegas our bitch.
Umm..Not everyone Chuck.Still enjoying by fat cigar& Scotch…
The reason I’m saying the 49ers dominate the Packers is because I think Harbaugh, Fangio and Roman have a lot up their sleeves they’ve been showing for a while now. Do you remember Harbaugh’s first preseason? They ran vanilla all over the field. Sure, it was a strike-shortened off season and the 49ers were up against it, but the team was very different week one than they were in the preseason. We all know Harbaugh has a lot of gamesmanship in him. Did you recently hear the Colin Kaepernick interview where he said, “Talking to the media gives away your edge.” That’s clearly the culture in SF – deception. That said, I do believe this team was tired going into the last two weeks of the season. But I also think (alongside the team being tired and not showing much), that Harbaugh and his coaches are playing games with other potential playoff teams. Harbaugh is smart enough to know long ago that his team was going to the playoffs and he’s been setting it up the scouts for a while now.
All trickeration aside, the game is still the game. It’s nicer to get home with 4 (meaning you don’t have to blitz), but sometimes you have to gamble, and gambling needs to be smart. The 49ers do have a young qb, and like Steve Young said, they can’t drop Kaep back alla Mike Martz all day long. But I think like Jaws thinks – I think Kaep is more ready than Harbaugh is letting on. I think Kaep can and will sit back in the pocket, not need all the tricks or gimmicks, and Kaep will open up the passing game more than we’ve seen. Why? Because Harbaugh isn’t stupid. Kaep was inserted for a reason. If the 49ers just wanted to run their way to a Super Bowl (or try) they’d have stayed with Smith.
I think the 49ers beat the Packers 42-17, and I think they do it with Justin Smith being expectantly limited.
Your dreaming if you think Harbaugh is going to go all pass happy. the only way the Niners score that many points is if the pass/run ratio is like 65/35. Not happening with Harbaugh. He will stay conservative unless the Niners are down 10-14 points.
Jags dump Mike (what a bunch) of Mularkey.
No suprise their…Doubtful he will be included in any of the Coaching Carouse jobs going forward..
Watched “Outside the Lines.” Junior Seau …… I’ll tell what the NFL is going to move towards. I don’t know about the kickoffs, but I truly believe the NFL will move towards ejecting players mid game and also using instant replay to see if a player lead with his head intentionally or couldn’t have tackled another player differently. That’s managing intent, which everyone knows is tough to do. But I truly believe the owners will approve the refs’ ability eject players for unsportsmanlike conduct.
Jack Harbaugh is such a polite and congenial old chap. How did his son become such a surly and curt prick? Jimbo must take after his mother. Mrs. Harbaugh must be one mean old battle axe.
Jimbo is sticking with Akers. Stubborn fuck. His old battle axe of a mom should beat ’em over the head with a switch.
“Jimbo is sticking with Akers.”
Told ya. Spitblood I think said the same: ‘Cundiff won’t be playing’. To which I added “JH is just playing with matches”. As speculated this was all a ploy to light a fire under Akers ass. Competition for the kicking job? No way Harbaugh switches kickers going into the playoff unless DA’s problems are seriously physical not seriously mental. JimBO is crazy true but not as crazy as yer bible toting Grandma- yet.
Akers shanks a couple FGs against GB, okay Flavor’s a genius…
Sorry it was Alleykat who made the comments about Cundiff not kicking not Spit
Thanks Phil,for putting the right comment to me over Spit blood.(bad little spitty)Called it all the way Jimbo would stick with Akers.Like all my calls so far in the playoffs.Spot on!!! (grin)
If JH really wanted a competition, he would have brought in Longwell. The only good news is the only kicker worse than Akers was GB’s Jackie Mason Crosby. . .
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New thread is up you game pickers, you.