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Packers-49ers live score and updates: Brock Purdy and Jordan Love face battle in an NFC Divisional duel.
After scoring 48 points in Dallas, Jordan Love and Green Bay face Brock Purdy,y, a Christian McCaffrend the NFC’s top seed.
Romeo Doubs defeated Ambry Thomas. He didn’t defeat Charvarius Ward.
The Packers score a field goal to grab a 3-0 lead.
Kyle Shanahan and Matt LaFleur, close friends and former coworkers, will square off again in the postseason, and it should be a terrific chess match between two of the league’s greatest offensive minds.
Shanahan and LaFleur have worked together since 2008, when Shanahan was the Texans’ offensive coordinator and LaFleur was the offensive assistant. From there, the two collaborated in Washington, where Shanahan was offensive coordinator and LaFleur was quarterback coach.
They then collaborated in Atlanta in the same positions. LaFleur followed fellow former Washington assistant Sean McVay in Los Angeles when McVay got the head coaching position with the Rams in 2017, and the Packers came calling two years later.
Mike Shanahan’s system is known for its zone-blocking tactics, bootlegs, and quick-hitters.
The game came in the 2021 divisional round, and San Francisco defeated the home Packers 13-10.
For his first few hectic months as general manager of the San Francisco 49ers in 2017, John Lynch left his family behind in San Diego. His temporary residence at the Santa Clara Marriott became a brainstorming hub for reviving a dormant franchise.
The 49ers, coming off a 2-14 season, had one of the NFL’s poorest rosters. Lynch lacked NFL front office experience. He would have to learn on the fly from coach Kyle Shanahan, his new partner at the top of the 49ers’ power pyramid.
Tony Dungy, Lynch’s Hall of Fame coach of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, suggested that he and Shanahan form an organic relationship by studying as much video together as possible. So the duo
San Francisco is 0-5 ATS in its past five home games. According to BetMGM, the 49ers are -10 points in this game.
San Francisco has gone 5-1 against the spread in postseason games since 2021.
Eight of Green Bay’s last 10 away games have gone over in total points. BetMGM has set a total point over/under of 50.5 for this clash.
Green Bay is 3-0 against the spread over its previous three games.
San Francisco is 0-3 against the spread in its previous three games against teams with winning records.
Green Bay’s previous three games with fewer than six days off have gone over in total points.
Six of Green Bay’s previous seven games from December or later have hit the
George Kittle vs Packers linebackers.
During the regular season, the 49ers had the second most snaps out of 21 personnel (two backs, one tight end, and two receivers). With Christian McCaffrey in the mix, Kyle Shanahan’s play-design options are limitless.
To prevent being gashed on the ground, the logical defensive approach is to match up with heavy personnel and play base (a mix of seven defensive linemen and linebackers with four defensive backs), but the 49ers have eviscerated base personnel through the air. They top the league in net yards per pass attempt (10.7) and total yards per game (129.1) versus base runners.
They are also sixth in yards per carry (4.2) against it. If the teams desire to
Saturday’s playoff game is shaping up to be a battle of the ages, putting a veteran-laden San Francisco 49ers club that has advanced to the postseason in the previous two years against a Green Bay Packers team that was the league’s youngest this season.
While Green Bay has two players in their 30s — defensive end Preston Smith, 31, and linebacker De’Vondre Campbell, 30 — the 49ers’ roster is stacked with 30-somethings. Thirteen players on the current roster are 30 or older, with eight of them expected to start on offense or defense Saturday.
A significant exception is the person who does the most of the talking in the San Francisco secondary. Safety Ji’Ayir Brown is the lone 49ers rookie who’s started a game in 2023, after missing the past two.
The recent postseason history is not a perfect prediction of anything, but it serves as a guideline. It’s an etched-out trail. It provides a clear indication of what it takes to win playoff games, what may work in the postseason right now, and, most crucially, what virtually always fails.
The NFL playoffs sometimes, or frequently, repeat themselves, with similar events occurring every January to the same types of teams and characters, and if you want an example, just look at Mike McCarthy’s Dallas Cowboys following their monumental flop against the Green Bay Packers last Sunday.
Or Kyle Shanahan’s 49ers, who head into Saturday’s divisional-round game against the exact same Packers at Levi’s Stadium knowing three very plain facts about their early-round
The San Francisco 49ers watched the Green Bay Packers’ 48-32 wild-card victory against the Dallas Cowboys live on television this past Sunday, but only for a brief time. That’s because it rapidly became clear that the Packers, who were piling up touchdown after score with little response from Dallas, would be the 49ers’ opponents.
Green Bay quarterback Jordan Love was on fire, and the 49ers understood it was time to get into the details of preparation.
“We started really focusing on them in the second quarter,” 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan stated this week.
The Packers were establishing a 27-0 halftime advantage. Love was in the midst of the most efficient one-game effort in Green Bay’s
