The Green Bay: The Packers surprised the top-seeded 49ers by…
on Saturday evening, the second game of what is often regarded as the league’s most entertaining and thrilling weekend of the year.
Green Bay enters Saturday as 9.5-point underdogs, the lar 49ers clubgest margin of the weekend. That is undoubtedly impacted by the fact that the 49ers are the NFC’s top seed, whereas the Packers are the only 7 seed to ever win a playoff game, as well as San Francisco’s recent postseason victory against Green Bay.
However, only two years ago, a sixth-seeded was in a similar situation to this year’s Packers and pulled off an upset over the two teams on opposite ends of this year’s clash. The 49ers finished 10-7 in the regular season, defeated the Cowboys on the road in the Wild Card round, then stunned the top-seeded Packers on Saturday night in the Divisional round. Can the Packers do the same? At least one of our authors predicts it will happen.
The other games this weekend are all enticing matches, since every home team other than the Cowboys won on Wild Card Weekend. The AFC games set up Patrick Mahomes’ first genuine road playoff game as the third-seeded.
