Matching Up With the Niners

[Fritz]

Can this year's team match up with the Niners? Sure doesn't seem so, at least on defense. How can this defense stop McCaffrey AND Kittle/Samuels/Ayiuk? Can they even stop the run?

And of course Jordan Love, great as he's played, is due for a stinker of a game, like the Giants' game. He's still young - can you really expect him to have another lights-out performance?

Knowing that, of course the Niner defense is going to key heavily on Jones. Stop him, you stop the Pack.

[texaspackerbacker]

We matched up just fine with Lamb, Cook, Ferguson, Gallup, etc. I'd say that's as good, probably better than Kittle/Samuels/Aiyuk, especially with our QB who is way better than their QB. How are they gonna match up with Reed, Wicks, Watson, Melton, Doubs, Kraft, Musgrave? A healthy Aaron Jones is about as good as McCaffrey.

The Niner D isn't as good overall as the team we crushed last week.

Or was your post just more sarcasm?

[Fritz]

We matched up just fine with Lamb, Cook, Ferguson, Gallup, etc. I'd say that's as good, probably better than Kittle/Samuels/Aiyuk, especially with our QB who is way better than their QB. How are they gonna match up with Reed, Wicks, Watson, Melton, Doubs, Kraft, Musgrave? A healthy Aaron Jones is about as good as McCaffrey.

The Niner D isn't as good overall as the team we crushed last week.

Or was your post just more sarcasm?

No, Tex, it wasn't. I am vacillating between what seems, on paper, a much stronger 49ers team that should beat up this young Packer team (especially a strong feeling when you watch highlights from the 2019 and 2021 games) and a sense I have that this young Packer team is confident, loose, and on a hot streak. They remind me of this one other Packer team from about thirteen or so years ago . . .

So in one post I say that the Niners should really beat up on the young Pack, and in the next I am writing about how exciting this young Packer team is, and how loose they seem.

[texaspackerbacker]

So you're saying you're bi-polar? hahahahahaha

[NewsBruin]

Fritz, I've had a hard time buying the past seasons of the Shanahan Jr 49ers because it seemed like their offensive playmaker were injury-prone. I'm surprised everyone has lasted this long into the postseason.

I feel like we have a puncher's chance in this game. By which, I mean if Quay can drop McCaffrey and Deebo with uppercuts when the replays aren't looking, we could keep it close.