Official Packers @ Sanfrancisco Divisional Playoff Round 2012

[HarveyWallbangers]

How cool would it be to pay the Chickens back in GB for the title? They scare me more than the 69ers do at this point. It's going to be interesting to see the injury status of the good guys as the week goes on. Who pays center this week?

Jesus fucking Christ Harrell....put a bit more effort into the thread title will ya.

Could be a revenge playoff run. Beat three teams (Minnesota, San Fran, and Seattle) who beat us in the regular season.

[Willard]

Could be a revenge playoff run. Beat three teams (Minnesota, San Fran, and Seattle) who beat us in the regular season.

Then we avenge the SB XXXII blemish by taking down Elway's donkeys!

[pbmax]

Still needs work:

Jason Wilde @jasonjwilde
Why run more? RT @TomPelissero: 5 of #Vikings 6 read-option plays went for first downs. Gains of 17, 11, 5, 3 (on third-and-2), 18, 11.

[denverYooper]

Could be a revenge playoff run. Beat three teams (Minnesota, San Fran, and Seattle) who beat us in the regular season.

I'm rooting for this story.

[denverYooper]

Still needs work:

Jason Wilde @jasonjwilde
Why run more? RT @TomPelissero: 5 of #Vikings 6 read-option plays went for first downs. Gains of 17, 11, 5, 3 (on third-and-2), 18, 11.

How many of those were on the first drive?

[Patler]

Still needs work:

Jason Wilde @jasonjwilde
Why run more? RT @TomPelissero: 5 of #Vikings 6 read-option plays went for first downs. Gains of 17, 11, 5, 3 (on third-and-2), 18, 11.

Makes it even better for game prep v. SF:

"This is what you should do." (diagram defense)
"This is what happens when you don't do that." (show video from MN game).

[rbaloha1]

I'm rooting for this story.

Me too -- what should the title be -- "Revenge of the ...

[red]

this game should tel us all we need to know

if we win this, we can win the superbowl

IMO this is the toughest team we will face in the playoffs

[Pugger]

Oh, and Gore has lost a step. I've watched a few games this year and he's not even the same guy he was last year, let alone Adrian Peterson. He still runs between the tackles about as well as AP, but the guy has no where near the breakaway speed of AP on the outside.

I like Kapernick, but I don't think he's ready for this stage. He'll make enough misthrows, bad decisions and "hold the ball too long sacks" for us to take advantage of. He's no Aaron Rodgers.

Candle stick park is no toilet bowl when it comes to noise, and we might have as many fans in that shit hole as they do. I'm not expecting some big home field advantage for them.

They don't scare me. I think we have this one.

[George Cumby]

I feel much more confident about this game. This is not the same team that was beat up in week one. Much more battle-hardened and without Bush starting at corner

[denverYooper]

Vandermause tweet:

"Since 2005 NFL's No. 1 and No. 2 seeds, coming off bye and playing at home, are just 14-14 in divisional playoff games. "

[denverYooper]

I feel much more confident about this game. This is not the same team that was beat up in week one. Much more battle-hardened and without Bush starting at corner

It's going to be a tough game. Most stat sites and pundits FWIW have the two very, very close, generally 4-5th best behind Denver, New England, and Seattle.
CHFF has Pack 4/SF 5,
FO and Peter King have SF 4/GB 5
Brian Burke has SF 2 and GB 5 (behind Carolina ?!)

Also, SF has more of a known identity and more tape on Kaepernick. Though they still have a Tenacious D, their O has been really variable this year. GB has just seemed to find their style lately with the emergence of Harris, Jennings getting healthy, etc. Jordy's injury has been keeping his snaps down, but I expect they'll continue to work him in limited fashion. Their defense with Woodson is undoubtedly better now, with him moving around again. And I honestly feel that last week's game was great preparation for this coming weekend.

All that aside, San Fran's D plays a brand of ball that can slow down GB's passing game and the game is in the Stick so I wouldn't be surprised to see some creative gaming wrt HFA. It'll be worth watching to see how Justin Smith's injury affects that front. I'd also read somewhere that San Fran's D starters have played nearly 1k snaps this season and could be susceptible to some fatigue, even with the extra rest.

2 years ago they were going into Atlanta in a hostile stadium against a team that had pushed them around in the regular season.

This is going to be a battle.

[mraynrand]

It will be interesting to see whether the officials will let the niners secondary beat up the Packers WRs. They allowed a lot of contact in the Wash/Sea game. If they do, advantage SF; GB plays more Deion coverage and SF plays more Mel Blount style.

[denverYooper]

It will be interesting to see whether the officials will let the niners secondary beat up the Packers WRs. They allowed a lot of contact in the Wash/Sea game. If they do, advantage SF; GB plays more Deion coverage and SF plays more Mel Blount style.

Jerome Boger will be the Ref.

He reffed the Packers-Texans game so we might be able to infer that he won't mess up the offense's flow. Home teams have won 7% more than average this year with him calling the penalties but only 2% for his career and a quick look at his games list shows generally better home teams.

I didn't look into it far enough to determine PI penalties... maybe someone else here knows his record there.

[denverYooper]

Green Bay is still theoretically due some fumble luck. Even with the 2/2 last week, the D has 7 recoveries of 20 fumbles on the year. I'll leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out how many successful fumble recoveries they'll need to get to 50% in the quickest way possible .

Their offense is right at 50% - 8/16.