Green Bay Packers vs San Francisco 49ers Prediction: Can 49ers Defense Stifle Jordan Love in Divisional Round?
Jordan Love and this Green Bay Packers offense absolutely decimated the Dallas Cowboys at home last week to hand them their first home loss of the season in devastating fashion as they were blown out as nearly eight point favorites. How will Green Bay fare against the juggernaut of the San Francisco 49ers offense? Let’s break it down.
Joey Ruiz - January 20, 2024, 1:36 PM EST
5 minGreen Bay Packers vs San Francisco 49ers Prediction: Can 49ers Defense Stifle Jordan Love in Divisional Round?
Jordan Love had a near perfect game last week in a very Aaron Rodgers-esque type performance. He was pressured all day, and the Dallas Cowboys pass rush just could not get home, and Jordan love took full advantage as he made some big-time throws down field for chunk plays while under pressure.
Packers vs. 49ers Date, Time, and Where to Watch
- Date: January 20, 2024
- Game Time: 8:15 pm ET
- Where to Watch: FOX
Green Bay Packers vs. San Francisco 49ers Prediction
Matt LaFleur has completely taken the training wheels off of Jordan love in this Packers offense as their full repertoire of schematic play calling was on full display against Dallas and the Cowboys simply had no answers. Now it wasn’t a complete shock that the Cowboys lost though as this has been their MO for a while now. Have a great regular season and choke in the playoffs and that is exactly what they did again.
Now the Packers are rewarded by traveling to San Francisco to play the likely Super Bowl favorite 49ers led by Kyle Shanahan, Brock Purdy, and Christian McCaffrey. The 49ers have been dominant for most of the season as they have been one of the few NFL teams this season that have consistently won with margin. The rushing attack of McCaffrey really opens up the play action pass to San Francisco’s deadly trio of receivers Deebo Samuel, Brandon Aiyuk, and George Kittle.
I think at least two of those guys are going to have huge days against a Packers secondary that is below average outside of Jaire Alexander, who also may be a step slow as he is dealing with an ankle injury of his own coming into the game.
Jordan Love has been red hot over the last six to eight weeks but the Cowboys pass rush was just unable to get home on nearly all of their blitzes which is what allowed Love the time to pick them apart.
I do not think the Packers OL is going to hold up as well as they did against Dallas and think the 49ers will get to Love for multiple sacks today which should lead to multiple stalled drives. With that being said, I am rolling with 49ers -9.5 at -111 for 2U as one of my most confident NFL Plays of the Day as I think San Francisco ends Green Bay’s cinderella run in impressive fashion with some margin.
Green Bay Packers vs. San Francisco 49ers Pick
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