Game Preview: Green Bay Packers at San Francisco 49ers
Previewing the San Francisco 49ers' divisional playoff game against the Green Bay Packers.
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00:00 Weather's important.
00:01 We'll talk about why in a minute, but I'm looking on my phone, Santa Clara tomorrow,
00:05 there's a 55% chance of rain.
00:07 They don't know.
00:08 Happened, couldn't.
00:09 And it's, I'm looking on the iPhone.
00:11 I don't know how accurate it is, but it seems like if the rain is going to come down right
00:16 now, it's going to come down in the evening when the game happens.
00:18 So don't know, but it's something the Niners have to be prepared for.
00:22 And I think like, this is when maybe, maybe Brock Purdy's physical limitations come to
00:31 the forefront of your mind.
00:33 Because when it's a game like this, a quarterback like him or Tua, you start to think, well,
00:39 how's the ball going to leave his hand?
00:42 How's it going to travel through the air?
00:43 You don't think about that as much with a quarterback like Josh Allen or maybe even
00:47 Jordan Love who can really, really drive the ball.
00:51 Brock does everything well.
00:52 He doesn't really drive the ball like that.
00:56 Do you think the rain would be like an equalizer or something that would play in the Packers
01:00 favor?
01:02 No.
01:04 I think the rain is actually going to play in our favor.
01:07 I feel like the Packers, they want to take the air out of the football.
01:11 They want a slow down pace, a slow down pace game.
01:15 I just believe that we are not only just a better team talent wise, but schematically
01:20 they have problems facing us.
01:22 The Packers don't do well in stopping the run, particularly outside zone.
01:26 They're pretty bad at it.
01:29 They're not as bad as what they're absolutely worse at, which is stopping inside zone.
01:35 The Packers defense has got a lot of work on their hands coming in here to face us.
01:40 With the weather being in question, I really do look for us to open up the stables, let
01:47 Christian McCaffrey do his thing, Debo Samuel get on the edges and get these boys running
01:52 and then allow Brock to do what he does best, which is distribute and short the intermediate
01:56 passes and extend plays.
02:00 I honestly, I tried because I know it's sexy to kind of see why the Packers are going to
02:06 win this game, but I really do see this falling right into our hands, especially with the
02:12 weather, right?
02:13 Because it's going to be, they're going to flip, they're going to try to take the out
02:16 of the ball.
02:17 What they really want to do for the Packers is they want to keep our defense aligned on
02:20 the field.
02:22 They want to keep us, they want to keep us out there and get us tired because they feel
02:25 as though that they have a run game that's going to be able to protect what they really
02:28 like to do is their play action game with Jordan Love, which is how he turns on immediately.
02:34 And I just think that the play action game is going to suffer with not being able to
02:38 get a lot of traction and we play in natural turf.
02:41 So we're going to have these boys running.
02:44 I just don't think weather is going to be a factor in this one.
02:48 We don't know if it's going to rain or not.
02:49 If it does, it'll be interesting to see what is the footing like, because if it's slippery
02:54 on the grass, then it might be tough to run outside zone because that you need to make
02:58 that one cut as opposed to just running between the tackles where you just kind of run forward,
03:05 depending on what the footing is.
03:06 So we'll see.
03:07 And then I got to feel if it's actually coming down, that affects Brock more than love and
03:14 that it would be an equalizer that we saw Brock in Cleveland with like a mist.
03:19 It wasn't even raining that hard.
03:21 And I don't know if we're going to coincidence or not, but it was, it was probably his worst
03:25 game of the year that are Baltimore.
03:27 But I mean, he completed 44% of his throws.
03:29 If you go back and watch, he was just missing.
03:31 The ball was like slipping out of his hand.
03:33 It felt like to the point where I wondered, should you be wearing a glove?
03:38 Like Kenny picker.
03:39 So that's, that's one thing I feel like the Niners are definitely better than the Packers,
03:44 but something like this could make it a different type of game, a messy game, mark it up, which
03:50 would benefit the inferior team.
03:52 Yeah.
03:53 I mean, I can understand, I can understand how, you know, you just can't get around the
03:57 elements of the game and how the boys are going to be able to perform.
04:01 But I, I understand that Brock, I don't, I think that's kind of Kyle's job to keep Brock
04:07 out of those situations where he's going to be trying to throw the ball over 25 to 30
04:12 times a game.
04:13 I think that our run game is really going to stand tried and true in this game.
04:16 And it's going to be more in a way, I kind of see that this game being back in 2019,
04:21 the NFC championship game at home, when we beat the Packers and we threw the ball eight
04:26 times.
04:27 I don't think it's going to be that drastic because I believe we have a much better quarterback
04:29 in Brock Purdy than Jimmy Garoppolo.
04:32 But I do see this being a game where it's the Packers are going to slow it down anyway.
04:37 And when you slow the game down, weather kind of just doesn't tend to be a factor.
04:42 Now I can see if we were playing another finesse team or a team like Detroit, where they like
04:47 to get you spread you wide and, you know, making, making passes and being on time is
04:53 something that is necessarily going to be at a premium.
04:57 Oh, where'd you go?
05:00 Good.
05:01 I can hear you.
05:03 You hear me?
05:04 Elgato.
05:05 No signal.
05:06 It says I can hear you.
05:07 Yeah.
05:08 All right.
05:09 You can still hear me.
05:10 Hold on.
05:11 I'm Elgato.
05:12 Yeah.
05:13 Yeah.
05:14 But for me, I, I just don't think that it's necessarily going to be that big of a factor.
05:19 I think the weather plays in our hand.
05:21 I don't know what's going on right now, but we're going to, we're going to push through.
05:24 I wasn't expecting you to say that the weather plays in the Niners hand.
05:27 I feel like it plays in the Packers hand and the Niners should be hoping that it's clear
05:32 skies and the Packers should be hoping for any type of chaos they can get because I don't
05:40 think they're anywhere near as good as the Niners, even though they beat the Cowboys by
05:45 a lot, like they don't have enough talent.
05:47 [Music]