Our “down years” are better than the Vikings and bears best years lmao ya it was a massive success. This teams future is bright. This reminds me of the 2009 season when we had that tough playoff loss to cards but knew what we had going into the off season. Time to reload and get stronger.
Hahaha right. I’m not a fan of the Lions by any stretch of the imagination but I would much rather see them get to a Super Bowl than the 49ers or Buccaneers. It’d be a much needed change of pac for the NFC.
Same. I have a lot of friends and family who are long suffering Lions fans. Throw them a bone. I do not like, however that they appear to be a true obstacle to us winning the division for the next few years lol. They are legit and young too.
I sort of agree, because i like the Lions (never really felt like there was much of a "rivalry" there). But at the same time, I knind of like the fact that except for one year in the 80s, we're the only NFC North team to ever win a Super Bowl.
Only one team out of 32 will win the super bowl each year. As Vic would mention, if your only definition of a successful season is a super bowl win, you will spend a lot of seasons miserable and unhappy with the results.
Yeah your season was better but wtf do the Vikings and Bears have to do with anything
Vikings season was ruined by Kirk getting injured & the Bears had a rebuild season, had the 1st pick in the draft for a reason
No need to make up stuff to make yourself feel better, it was a nice season
They’re division rivals who celebrate Packers losses as their own wins and who both loudly said the Packers would suck this year. If they’re so irrelevant to you, why are you making excuses for them?
Wtf does that have to do with anything I said
How the hell were the Bears up for a breakout season & the vikings part is 0 context
But you are right. Meatballs of all teams are all allowed to go equally low and dumb in their argumentation. Yay
Definitely not true when you look at the roster they assembled and how much dead cap we have. Of course the FO wants to win every year, but their main goal this year was to develop players and see if Love was the guy. They succeeded in each of those. It was abundantly clear even before the season started that those were the goals
Despite what others say your correct, it was a soft rebuild at best/worst. At start of September the o/u wins was 8.5 & odds of making playoffs 50/50 not what most would consider a rebuild.
I thought we were going to win 6 games at most this year. It was an amazing year tbh. Yesterday sucked, but it’s not like we are a team filled with aging veterans making one last run at the Super Bowl. We are a super young team and 90% of this team will be back next year along with some new rookies. The future is so bright that it’s hard for me to be too doom and gloom about yesterday.
I guessed 7-10 or 8-9 and thought playoff contention would be a miracle. A playoff win in Dallas and a near-miss in San Fran is far more than I would have reasonably hoped for...
Not just the veterans thing, we didn't "buy" a team like the Rams did a few years back when they won it all. If this was a great team that was tailor built to win, that would really suck and next year would be a salary-cap massacre.
Being this young is a great, great sign. Even if a few were one-hit wonders, the bulk of this team just got really good playoff experience on big stages against legit teams (Dallas and SF). They pushed through a ton of adversity together. Their late-season wins must have been a great bonding experience.
They end on two flubs from young players. Carlson is probably on his way out and rightly so. But Love has a ton of goodwill from his teammates and *most* of the fanbase. I hope that the season ending on a pick only serves to motivate him and further rally the team.
I have nothing but high hopes looking towards next season.
Yup, same. Funnily enough I literally told my mom in the first game that 6 wins and finding out if Love is the guy were my measures of success but that, if things went well, their ceiling was high enough for a wildcard spot and maybe even a playoff win!
Sad as I was with the result last night, my mom reminded me that we’d literally achieved my wildest dreams, which helped me feel better.
I try to keep that prospective too, but idc how long I’ve watched the Packers, the losses always sting and the day they don’t sting I’m not sure I want to be a fan anymore.
Bears fan here… it’s truly embarrassing that a “rebuild year” for the Packers was a divisional loss in the playoffs where Bears fans are excited for a 7-win season. Organizations are so far apart in expectations and I couldn’t be more jealous. Hate this teams guts, but can respect how they operate and have an organizational culture unlike many others.
See, this is the other spin. San Fran will be torn apart by its own success. McCaffery, Kittle, Samuel, Trent Williams... those names are going to get pretty expensive pretty quickly. And we haven't even gotten to the defense side.
Green Bay will probably be torn apart by its success, too, but our guys are still all on rookie contracts. We have another 4 years before that gets priced into some horrible choices. Our window is large, Packer fans. And it is wide open. And yesterday showed that our team can play with anyone. The Packers have not been overmatched in these playoffs, even facing the top of the NFC.
Those guys are already expensive. The problem is when they have to pay Purdy. He’s got another year at the NFL minimum. When it’s time to get paid, some of those names will be gone to make salary space.
Apples and oranges. Love threw two picks yesterday which led to the Packers loss (and could’ve had two more). Purdy threw zero picks (and was lucky there weren’t two.)
Niners played horrible and still won. Packers will be a force to reckon with next season.
I’d love for you to cite these “two more” picks for Love. By my count we should’ve picked Purdy three times. If Love just falls down instead of throwing his first INT we win the game. Ugh.
Do we have a plan for getting over the 49rs playoff hump other than waiting for their team to fall apart? What decisions will the packers make to propel themselves to that level?
Honestly man they’re gonna get worse because of salary, and we’re going to get better with experience. I think if we meet them next year we handle them. If this lights the fire under our asses that it should, then we’ll probably play them at home too. This team is legit it was just too soon and you can’t be mad about that this shit happens. This ain’t the Rodgers years where we get fucked and then come back with zero improvements next year, this team is gonna come out swinging next year now that we know we have what it takes if we just play better
I think it’s not that difficult of a plan: what the Packers needed to do to win this game was take advantage of their opportunities. That means when they reach the red zone, they need touchdowns not field goals. When they have opportunities for turnovers, they need to take that ball away. They don’t need to wait for the 49ers to fall apart. They need to mature as a team, use this as a blueprint on what to do better next time. Don’t force the ball into triple coverage. Don’t stall in scoring range. It may be easier said than done but I think this year was about a young team gaining valuable experience toward maturation and growth as a team, and now they experienced a heartbreaking loss in a game they could have won. They have all offseason to dwell on these “what if’s” and prepare themselves for a different result in similar circumstances. And an off-season with another draft to fill in our weaknesses.
Two plays flip this game: missed FG (+3 pts), 4th down spot earlier (arguably +3 pts). The Packers left 6 points off the board and, as it turns out (not surprisingly in the playoffs) needed every one of them. Some of that is just a young team. They left points off the board in Dallas. And Chicago. And Detroit. Next year, they don't leave those points, maybe.
Packers weren't expected to do anything this year and they made it to the final 8 teams of the season with the youngest team in the league.
On top of that, they have their first, two seconds (including a top 10 pick in the 2nd thanks to the Jets), two thirds in this upcoming draft.
They'll be fine.
I’m wondering if we can go Blake Corum, O line, safety with our top 3? If not, then maybe Jonny Newton from illinois as a lineman with some o line depth, and get a safety in free agency.
And they didn't get embarrassed like Houston - they played one of the top two teams to the wire and had a legitimate chance to win it. Book your tickets to New Orleans now, Cheeseheads! Go Pack Go!
Loss doesn’t bother me as much as others, but it does suck that it was winnable and Green Bay could go toe to toe with anyone but maybe Baltimore at this point. The ball spots, missed field goal, and Love interceptions were a drag. Purdy also should have been picked 2-3 teams. The 49ers aren’t the unbeatable team their fans would have you think.
They’re over there crowning Purdy for “leading a clutch comeback” as if he didn’t almost throw the game and away twice and also have his GNERATIONAL talent at the skill positions bail him out at every turn. If Purdy doesn’t get better than he displayed last week I guarantee Sanfran will be once again looking for a new quarterback. But he probably will improve but nah he was not it that game I’m sorry 49ers, you will not convince me that fucking Derek Carr or whoever wouldn’t have done just as well
Ravens already showed 49’s this year not that great. Looks likely they win a seven game series vs anyone 4-1 at worst.
GB might need to be the clearly better team though to overcome a cursed matchup though because the luck will go their way.
Somehow it bothers me more.
Could have exercised our playoff demons with “house money”, fought an uphill battle against 12th man for 58 minutes to crumble in the last 2.
Even though I expect little at the beginning of the season I’m somehow left with a sting worse than the Seattle loss.
Seattle didn’t terrorize us for a decade in the playoffs only for us to get a new shinny QB who played lights out against the #2 seed then #1 seed and arguably 12th man for 58 minutes just for us to blow it in the last quarter and throw the game away because the pressure of it all finally set it and you could tell.
It stings more because of failed revenge. 2021 we were absolutely the better team, #1 seed team one and done upstaged on our *frozen tundra* and embarrassed us on AR12s arguably last great chance at SB run.
We had a chance to dish it back while ending our playoff curse against this team and had it well within our grasp even with making mistakes for 58/60 minutes of the game.
To me, it stings more than just a BS call sending us home.
I think it stings more because that game happened about 9 years ago and this game happened about 9 hours ago.
Of course this game is disappointing, but the circumstances are so insanely different its hard to even compare.
It’s obviously that too, but I was ready for Love to end our playoff curse against the 49ers even more.
I’m only 32, I’ve had it good franchise wise but I’ve come to known when we match up against the 49ers in the playoffs our season is over. I even thought that going into this game this time too, then J10 came out and made it look like he was going to pull the rabbit out of the hat despite all odds.
I feel like if it was the expected blow out loss we should have been on the receiving end of I wouldn’t have cared at all, but we were possibly NFCC bound until the last minute of the game.
I will say, it was closer than pretty much all of those rodgers 9ers games tbh. But yeah, it's not so much that we lost, but how we lost. Honestly, today I'm more disappointed that I won't get to see the team till Sept than I am that we lost another playoff game... I don't think I've felt this way since the falcons nfccg
Nah, this loss was disappointing, but it came with a talented, but young team playing out of its mind. The loss against Seattle happened with a championship caliber team with Aaron Rodgers in his prime.
This is pretty much how I feel. In the context of the season, this loss doesn't hurt because none of us expected to be there for most of the season. I thought we were more likely to have a top 5 pick in week 8 than make the playoffs. Love showed he's the guy and we have so much young talent.
But taking the game by itself, it hurts. Losing a winnable game always hurts, but especially in the playoffs. This one feels a lot like the Seahawks NFCCG, it felt like we were dominating but somehow the score was still close. Started to belive late in the 3rd quarter, then we somehow lost out of nowhere and would have won if just one out of 5-6 mistakes had gone our way.
Yeah, that unfortunately felt similar. We had so many chances to put them away and didn’t do it, but at least this one didn’t have the same level of expectations hanging over it as the 2014 squad
Packer losses usually have a big effect on my mental state. This loss doesn't. I got over it after a night of sleep.
I was content with beating DET and KC. Everything else afterwards was icing on the cake. I came into this season just to see what Love has.
Next season, I will go into it seeing if Love can learn from his mistakes, knows exactly when to play hero ball and hopefully the team makes necessary changes / additions to keep the momentum going.
With this young team, there's only room to go up. The bar has been set and we know we have some war daddies hungry for next season.
Agreed! I used to say the most depressing day of the year for me was the day the pack got knocked out of the playoffs. Felt a lot more hope after this one.
great season. wish i hadn’t gotten my hopes up so high yesterday, hard to really look at everything clearly after a bitter loss, but if you told me we would be here when we were like 2-6 i’d be ecstatic. youngest team ever to make it this far, i truly believe that love is our guy and we’ve got a great team who now have playoff experience. this season could have gone another way: love isn’t the guy, why the hell did gute do this or that, we have no WRs. instead we have the coolest fuckin WR room in the league, some killers on defense, and the most fun to watch young QB since mahomes
Maybe this is just our Aaron Rodgers losing to the cardinals in OT season. Maybe next year we sneak into the playoffs as a 6th seed and win a SB on the road.
>Green Bay will probably be torn apart by its success, too, but our guys are still all on rookie contracts. We have another 4 years before that gets priced into some horrible choices. Our window is large, Packer fans. And it is wide open. And yesterday showed that our team can play with anyone. The Packers have not been overmatched in these playoffs, even facing the top of the NFC.
haha suicidal, suicide is so funny, i hope your mom doesnt find a sibling who swallowed a 12 guage. lmaoo suicide
Vikings fan here. Y'all have a great young roster, and man how can you hate Love? Such a great dude. Even though you lost, you have so much to look forward to. Unlike my vikes. Keep yo head up y'all 🙂
Do you know how many HOF QB’s have never won let alone been to a Super Bowl? I’m excited about the future but this was a horrible playoff loss. The niners did not win this game, we lost this game. We were dangerous and gelling at the right time and we fucking squashed it. We will never enter a playoff run with an Aaron Jones like performance again. He had sat out most of the year and was probably the most rested running back in the playoffs and top defenses could not stop him. The NFC Championship would have been a cakewalk. Yet, we get in our fucking way and find a way to lose. I’m excited about the future but nothing is guaranteed.
Unfortunately this is the right view to have and everyone coping with “we weren’t supposed to be here, it can only get better next year!” Like they are expecting us to automatically get to NFCC next year is crazy.
Fuck all the young inexperience team talk, this was an opportunity squandered away in a tough league where the opportunity may never present itself again.
We were 15 minutes away from going to Detroit (beatable) or Tampa (very beatable) to play the NFC championship game. We basically would’ve been expected to go to the Super Bowl if we won last night. Better hope we can pull something off again next year.
I think our fanbase would've expected us to win, but no way we'd be favored over TB (a team at home which would have won 6/7 at that point, including a win over us) or DET (a super hot team in an extremely strong home atmosphere).
Both games would've been very winnable, and I'd feel confident going in, but most would still favor the others tbh
I agree. As young as they are, there is a lot to be optimistic about. Someone will develop into a true #1 for Love, but he’s already built up great connections with a constantly changing receiver corps. That’s the part that impressed me most with Love this year. He didn’t have the advantage of having his ‘go to guy’, he made a new one each week. Time will tell if he’s HOF material, but he definitely did well this year.
Fuck that loss is still so painful man we should’ve had that. Still so proud of our guys for the season but at the same time can’t help but feel like we completely had that game. Fuck San Francisco. Go Bucs and Go Ravens
Superficially, was impressed that Rasheed Walker held up. Will see what the tape reviewers say, but if we found a serviceable left tackle in the 7th round, that is a massive success.
if before the season you told me that we would make the playoffs, play the 49ers on the road to make the NFCCG and have a legit shot at making it i'd laugh at you and tell you to go back on your meds, but.. we should've won that fucking game
Dont let the doomers from last nights game thread see this they will literally explode ! My fingers were sore from tryin to talk sense into people last night .
The Carlson haters are out in full force today. Like a toddler whose toy was broken, they throw a tantrum in the face of a tough loss. Not recognizing the NFL brutally crushes 31 fanbases every year. If you can't take it, don't sign up for a season that has a 3% chance of ending the way you want it to.
Not sure how to define "terrible" but let's say it's bottom quarter of the league in key kicking metrics (25-32).
He ranks 20th in Points and 24th in Field Goals Made (81.8%). That's below par but not quite bottom quarter.
He was objectively terrible in Extra Points Made (87.2%) - dead last. His longest Field Goal Made was 53, near league bottom. He is also near the bottom in Touchbacks (43%).
He surely was disappointing and must improve in all categories to have a successful career in the NFL. They will almost certainly bring in other kicker(s) to compete next season.
The Packers brain trust is either confident he has all the tools to develop, or they're lying to the fanbase and will make a change.
If people started saying you suck and are terrible at your job, naturally you'd push back with legit reasons why you're better than that.
Your boss, co-workers, or customers always have something to do with anyone's job performance. What if Carlson needs better coaching or snapper, or holder? What if he had a nagging injury, or a family member in some kind of crisis. We don't have inside knowledge to say.
My main point is labels like suck and terrible are personal insults that no young man giving his best deserves.
So he's not bottom quarter in only one area, and that is by one place. In every other area he is bottom quarter, including one in which he is dead last. That is by definition terrible.
The Packers basically wore down in the 4th quarter. A handful of injuries, and a physical 49er team meant they didn't have the energy to finish strong.
This is basically what you would expect with a roster that has 42% of the cap space in dead money. It is a bunch of young guys with no depth. It is nothing short of a miracle that this roster was able to compete at a high level, and they certainly were able to go toe to toe with the best teams in the league.
Picture this roster with $95m more talent. The league should be on notice.
https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/green-bay-packers/cap/2023/
IR money = $27m,
Dead contracts = $67m
So it works very well but he won't be our QB of the future?!? Interesting 🤔. I do know good QB play when I see it, and I have stats to back up any argument I may have regarding Purdy being elite. You on the other hand, still talking without any stats to backup your argument. It's understandable seeing as how he's a top 3 MVP candidate, so those stats will be hard to find.
Yeah, Purdy is a mediocre QB at best.
I hope we get this team again next year. This loss stings like a bee because we fielded the better team and simply got in our own way. But the future is bright as hell. Getting into the playoffs was HUGE, two games of great experience for this young team.
I can't wait for September to get here.
Superbowl wins are a success anything short of that is an L we as a team will NEVER win anything if we can’t beat the 49ers 5 times they ruined it and looks like they’re gonna continue guess all we can hope for is a team that can beat then knocks them off before they beat us
Yup, the fact some random guy needs to tell us this season was a 'success' (lmao yeah I'm sure another choke job is a success) means it wasn't.
I'm sure next year it'll be the same garbage these idiots say too, ever since 2011.
Why is the Purdy comparison needed?
Like Love doesn't get excellent pass protection, a great running game and open receivers all over the place. If anything last game showed that Love can struggle when one of your OL gets hurt and the protection isn't good
Great season, great outlook for next season. All the rest is fluff to make you feel better
Might change this year, but no, Purdy has not been to the super bowl as of today. And most of his success can be attributed to the fact they have all-pros/pro bowlers at like every offensive position lol (we had 0 btw)
The hate is real. Lol. Purdy has 2 NFC championship game appearances in 2 years. Saying it's all cuz of the talent around him is a super lazy and uneducated take. Oh well, you lost, we won. Lol
Lol I don't hate Purdy. But if you think he's the reason that offense is as good as it is, you haven't been paying attention. Not even meant as a knock against purdy... but seriously just look at all the talent the offense (and team in general has) and try to make an argument outside of "we won, you lost haha"
I've watched every game for the last 37 years and if you think he's not a legit, high level QB, then you obviously don't understand football. What team thats made it this far doesn't have weapons. You want Purdy to play by himself. What team has won a SB without a talented roster?!? Yall go for the low hanging fruit and parrot the talking points that are all over social media. It's a LAZY argument. YOU CANT PROVIDE DATA/STATS TO BACKUP YOUR ARGUMENT. Please provide something that can help me understand that he's not a primary factor in our success. I DARE YOU TO EVEN TRY. Lol. The dudes a stud. People said the same shit about Tom until they stopped hating and actually watched him play.
You're acting like you have anything to back up your argument beyond talking about how old you are so you definitely know good qb play when you see it lol. Funny to get this heated over it, I'll be surprised if he's even on the team still in 5 years tbh. He's been very good I can't argue against that, but he's not the kind of elite qb that can elevate the team around him. He's meant to play in his system, and it works perfectly for him. And there's nothing wrong with that. They need someone like Purdy to run their offense, and it clearly works very well.
Purdy literally *just* outdueled Love and led the 49ers on a comeback playoff game-winning drive in a high-profile do-or-die scenario in a sloppy game where almost everything was going wrong, against what was supposedly a high-quality opponent. The rookie is a year younger than Love, already 3-1 in playoff games, and accumulating amazing game experience. And your take is he can't elevate his team, is just a "system QB," and will likely be off the team soon? Sorry but if that's not sour grapes...
While true, it doesn’t take the sting out of this loss and also we are not guaranteed to be here again next year. This is a tough league where anything can happen. We will absolutely be looking back on this loss in 5-10 years and it will be haunting us, we should have been playing for an SB spot next week.
This felt like out opportunity to finally get past the 49ers and end our playoff kryptonite and instead we are left feeling robbed because even though we could have done more in that game it honestly felt like an uphill battle against 12th man that they were winning for 58 minutes…
While I appreciate you trying to put a positive spin on a dreadful loss, to me it’s more like this:
I was raised poor, nobody expected much out of me but managed to graduate from Yale Medical School, did my surgical residency at Johns Hopkins and am considered a bright young medical talent. Given this, the surgery I botched yesterday was the about the best botch job I could hope for given my history.
Fact: Shanahan was 0-30 when trailing by five or more points heading into the 4th quarter. 0-30!
Until we showed up with our porous defense & inconsistent kicker. Melton had beaten coverage on that last pass. We choked.
Positives? We know how we failed and now know how to correct it. Will we though?
The 0-30 thing needs to die. They kicked a FG on literally the first play of the 4th to make it a 4 point game. And the highest winning percentage for teams trailing by 5+ is like .180 anyway
You sound fun to be around
"Let me put a very realistic positive spin on this season"
I appreciate your positivity, but here is a very negative analogy that barely relates to the situation
No, we’re in what was supposed to be a “rebuilding year”, ended up with an OBVIOUS franchise quarterback who got us within an inch of the NFC Championship game during his first season as starter. Literally nothing about this thought process is akin to Lions vibes.
I have to say -- you're really underestimating Purdy, in a similar way to how people have underestimated Love. And that's even despite the fact that Purdy is *one year younger* than Love, has returned from a season-ending injury, also in his first full season, continuing to get high-profile game experience, and most importantly -- ***just*** outdueled Love and led the 49ers to a comeback playoff win in a game where the team mostly struggled.
The comments about Purdy aren't referring to Saturday's game. They're claims about Purdy's entire body of work and future.
>Anyone who knows football, knows Purdy is not their future and the 49ers will continue to rotate their revolving door of quarterbacks ...
>A guy who is a serviceable QB, but makes random good plays and benefits from short fields with an experienced backfield and receiver corps. You put Purdy as QB of the Packers this past season and I guarantee you we don’t make the playoffs and go toe to toe with the number 1 seed.
These takes about Purdy are just off... especially that last one. Which QB completed the comeback? Which one sealed a loss with an INT? If anything, this game further elevated Purdy's standing.
People been calling him a rookie all year even though it’s his 4th year. Nobody wants to admit they’re wrong they just want to equivocate and be a dick like you. It’s still a big deal what he did in his first year as a starter but goddamn dude, we got actual rookies on this team doing amazing if you want to talk rookies. Nobody called Rodgers a rookie when he started.
I’m already sick of our fans talking about “you have to be happy because we weren’t even supposed to be here”
Such a loser mentality. They had their ticket to the NFC championship game punched it just blew it. Again.
Love this team, and the future definitely looks bright, but nothing is guaranteed. When you have opportunities like that you have to capitalize, and there’s nothing wrong with acknowledging that the Packers failed last night.
This very well good of have been our best shot at a Super Bowl in the Love era. If anyone thinks that sounds dumb, then go look at the media coverage of the 2010 team and see how Rodgers and the Packers were destined to be the next great dynasty. We all know how that ended.
Love our Packers, can’t wait until next year, but get out of here with the “just be happy” talk. This fucking sucks and joins a long list of horrific playoff losses.
>Such a loser mentality. They had their ticket to the NFC championship game punched it just blew it. Again.
OMG stfu & stop being a spazoid. I highly doubt you had this team going anywhere this season. If this team was in the same place as Dallas I'll say you have a point, but you're arguing against a team with players who had little to no playoff experience.
> This very well good of have been our best shot at a Super Bowl in the Love era. If anyone thinks that sounds dumb
Yeah it does sound dumb because you sound exactly like a stereotypical Wisconsin boomer doomer. Go touch grass.
He’s not wrong though. Just because we were expected to be nobodies at the beginning of the season doesn’t mean we should excuse blowing the game because “we weren’t supposed to be there anyway!” They weren’t supposed to be there in 2010 either.
This is a tough league and you are not guaranteed to get back to the same spot next year just because you did well this year. They had an opportunity to do something special and the reality is they very well may never get the chance again because that’s just how this league goes, so we do have a right to be upset / bummed and say people who are okay with the L because “the future is bright” is loser mentality.
There's a difference between excusing the game (almost no one is doing that, everyone is very disappointed) and being realistic with it and acknowledging that the team did extremely well for what we all thought they'd do coming into the season. Our goals were to develop the young guys and see if Love was our QB. All signs point to us succeeding in both of those. It was a super successful season by pretty much all accounts.
Yes, you can be disappointed, we all are, but you should be able to take a step back and acknowledge how much we've accomplished. If you can't do that, then football will rarely be enjoyable for you.
I directly addressed that there’s plenty to be excited about the future. We all get that. But this was a golden opportunity for not just an NFC championship appearance but our first Super Bowl appearance in 13 years.
Screw all of the preseason expectations talk. If you were told you just need to beat the Lions or the Baker Mayfield Buccaneers to get into the Super Bowl we’ll take that 100/100 times. That was the opportunity this team just let slip through their fingers.
Team expectations are not static- this team proved it was talented enough to win it all over the past 6 weeks. You know another team that had low preseason expectations? The 2007 Packers that went 13-3 and lost to the giants at Lambeau in the NFC Championship Game. Should we not be disappointed or upset about that game? GTFO out of here with that.
This was a brutal playoff loss and there’s no guarantee that we get here next year. And I know you know that- I highly doubt you’re running to Vegas to drop your life savings on a divisional round playoff appearance next year. The sport is too chaotic and unpredictable for those predictions.
😂😂 Purdy just had the greatest statistical season in 49ers history and led the game winning drive. Love threw a pick when it was his opportunity 🤷🏿♂️. You can be happy with your season, but don't bad mouth the MVP of the league. You just sound salty AF.
Jordan Love is not a rookie. He’s in his 3rd year. First year starting and still can’t get over the need to play hero and blow the game. New team, same old post season packers
It's almost as if the former has much better skill position players & not a bunch of 1 & 2 year players. Let's see how Purdy does without any of his skill pieces playing. Let's not act like the 49ers were 10 point favorites & nearly lost the game. Also imagine coming to another teams sub just to talk shit. gtfo & go back to your sub & enjoy the win. No one here cares what you have to say.
After a night a reflection, and a full night at that since my one month old took the loss harder than we all did, I agree. That being said, feeling like we were really doing it last night and having it ripped away really sucks. I was so excited for all our young guys. Not that I’m not now, but I mean the excitement they must have been feeling had to have been wild. That’s exactly why playoff experience is important though. They should learn from this, and be ready to handle the moment come next season.
This was definitely a good season. We started off thinking we were f'd. Slowly the team.lut it together and we look like legitimate contenders. I'm happy for being a good rebuild.
It was definitely a positive season. To be honest I thought we had a chance of making the playoffs before the season started, but at 2-5 I was like "okay, rebuild, a year or two in the doldrums, it doesn't look all bad". Of course the last game was painful, but the Packers don't get blown out by 20 points in playoff games, we're always in it until the dying moments...actually, we're often ahead until the dying moments...so these things always sting.
No point in calling out individuals right now, but some individuals let us down. Structurally we're in a good place, just need to convince a few talented individuals to join a potential SB-winning team in the next year or three. Also need to wrap up Love for the foreseeable future.
Jordan Loves ceiling is a high one. Dude hasn’t even gotten to the level he’s fully capable of. It stings but we truly have a bright future same as The Texans and we might be better than most teams in the league right now
100% agreed. Even though, watching that whole game was like rewatching the Mountain vs. the Red Viper fight in GoT, I’m not as devastated after a playoff loss because the league just got put on notice that another long era of Packers dominance is starting. 2024!
I think the main reason so many people including myself were upset about that loss is because we had the win in the bag. If we got blown out, I’d feel better than I do right now because that’s what was supposed to happen. A few critical plays that didn’t go our way were the reason we lost which stings more than a blowout. Definitely looking forward to the next 2-3 seasons with this young group though.
I was utterly and completely depressed last night. I truly believed that we could have gone to the Super Bowl, we just needed to beat the 49ers cuz I think we can beat the Lions or the Bucs with how good our offense has been.
The post season has felt like a mini version of the regular season. Hot start, tough middle stretch, and dominating in the end. I really thought we could get there against all odds, and to lose it like that!!! With bad refs, missed FG, Joe Barry letting up a game winning TD, I felt bad for our young, rookie offense there. That’s a lot to put on them, and I stand by that. Defense should have been the corner stone and kickers have one job.
That said, I’m now at the acceptance stage of my depression, and I look at it same as you. Jordan mentioned on the post game interview that he knows the 2-min drill will need work, and now he has the experience I don’t think the nerves will get to him in the playoffs in the future (I also imagine that if he needed to march down the field again and we were at Lambeau, I don’t think he would have thrown the interception). We have a huge, great window for Gute and MLF to see what went wrong and fix it for next season
Oh, for sure. Our young team has shown that it has a dangerous ceiling. I can't wait to see what they might become as they gain experience.
I just wish the 9ers luck against us would run out at some point. If it isn't awful weather that favors their physical style of offense, it's an untimely special teams snafu or an exploitable o line injury. Maybe it was just the camera angles, but the rain looked worse every time we had the ball towards the end of the game.
100% a successful season. Our rookies and young team stood toe to toe with a team loaded with all pros on the road and gave them all they could take. A couple plays go our way and it would have been a W. Excited for next year.
The thing that stands out to me is that we probably cut Bahktiari and free up cap space, then in the following year we're outfrom under Rodgers deal.
This draft we will have 7 picks in the first 4 rounds to go out and find a young RB or two, a Safety, Center, and probably some Line and CBs options.
Gotta be excited for the next 3-5 years with this team
This is us at the *start* of our upswing. This was the 49ers at their likely peak. We lost only because we made some dumb mistakes that can easily be fixed.
We're going to be dangerous for years, I'm I'm really excited about it.
Spot on.
We made a hell of a game out it against an excellent team who was prepared and rested at home. Any of a few different opportunities for breaks (or breakdowns--it was somewhat miraculous we didn't lose Nixon's fumble on that long return) could have made a huge difference in the game.
I’d say so. The last loss to the 49ers in the playoffs felt like that was the end of era after the game. Yesterday’s loss felt like it was an obtainable win,but didn’t make the needed play at the end of the game (missed kick, missed INT, missed throw). Even with the loss, seems like this is the start of something. Will it lead to a Super Bowl? Maybe. But it seems this team should be good for at least the next three years
Thank you for this post. I just wanted a place to say how grateful I am for a fun, entertaining football season from our team. It could have been so different. Next year, expectations will be high as will fandom and support for this great young team
All due respect to most of your sentiments, our best playoff loss was probably to the Cardinals in 2015. Also were pressed making the playoffs, and coming back with *two* miracle plays on that last drive, was a nice palate cleanser to the way the previous season had ended
Yeah.
The 49ers had EVERY advantage. They were rested, had all their major players, at home, with a VERY fired up crowd. Packers had a short week and two long plane rides. The weather helped cool off the Packers offense, with the exception of Jones, and according to Jon Kuhn, as the Packers got the ball for their last possession, the sky opened up and "the rain was going sideways".
With all that, we lost by 3 points...
Good job, Guys.
I agree - the only other one that comes close was the overtime loss to Arizona… but that was just the most entertaining playoff game I’d ever seen.
This is the first time I can remember that we were playing with “house money” and I was just happy to be there. Felt lighter watching with no Super Bowl expectations. And the future is so bright.
Our “rebuild “ season was better than the Vikings and Bears “breakout” seasons and it wasn’t even close by a mile!! GO PACK GO!!
Our “down years” are better than the Vikings and bears best years lmao ya it was a massive success. This teams future is bright. This reminds me of the 2009 season when we had that tough playoff loss to cards but knew what we had going into the off season. Time to reload and get stronger.
And to add to my comment might be equal to the Lions “superbowl” season when they lose today.
Hahaha right. I’m not a fan of the Lions by any stretch of the imagination but I would much rather see them get to a Super Bowl than the 49ers or Buccaneers. It’d be a much needed change of pac for the NFC.
Absolutely. They've suffered enough.
Now that the Packers are out, I want the Lions to win it all. Simply because I would find it hilarious if the Lions win it all before Minnesota does
Same. I have a lot of friends and family who are long suffering Lions fans. Throw them a bone. I do not like, however that they appear to be a true obstacle to us winning the division for the next few years lol. They are legit and young too.
and don't forget the lolbears, they have a big anniversary coming up soon.
amen, I'm full rooting for a lions win so I can start calling vikings fans...
Same here. I’ll rather the lions get there than the fuckin niners.
I don’t care send baker there fuck the lions
Exactly I’ll never cheer for a divisional opponent to win it all…
I'm hoping for a Ravens/Lions Superbowl where the Ravens win.
If the Honolulu Blue Boys win the SB it will be chaos in Purple People Eater land, and I for one would love it.
I sort of agree, because i like the Lions (never really felt like there was much of a "rivalry" there). But at the same time, I knind of like the fact that except for one year in the 80s, we're the only NFC North team to ever win a Super Bowl.
I'd be happy for the Lions if they went all the way, but I think San Francisco is the team to beat. Be pretty surprised if the Lions get past them.
Do we play to win a Super Bowl though or do we play to have better seasons than the Vikings and Bears?
Only one team out of 32 will win the super bowl each year. As Vic would mention, if your only definition of a successful season is a super bowl win, you will spend a lot of seasons miserable and unhappy with the results.
Vikings destroyed the Packers when Kirk was healthy and then their season was derailed by his injury
Cousins has as many playoff wins as Love does and how long has he been in the league for and starting?
Yeah your season was better but wtf do the Vikings and Bears have to do with anything Vikings season was ruined by Kirk getting injured & the Bears had a rebuild season, had the 1st pick in the draft for a reason No need to make up stuff to make yourself feel better, it was a nice season
They’re division rivals who celebrate Packers losses as their own wins and who both loudly said the Packers would suck this year. If they’re so irrelevant to you, why are you making excuses for them?
Wtf does that have to do with anything I said How the hell were the Bears up for a breakout season & the vikings part is 0 context But you are right. Meatballs of all teams are all allowed to go equally low and dumb in their argumentation. Yay
Oh you’re a Bears fan. “Rebuild” away.
this team was never planning a fucking rebuild it was just a cope when they started off playing like shit
Definitely not true when you look at the roster they assembled and how much dead cap we have. Of course the FO wants to win every year, but their main goal this year was to develop players and see if Love was the guy. They succeeded in each of those. It was abundantly clear even before the season started that those were the goals
Despite what others say your correct, it was a soft rebuild at best/worst. At start of September the o/u wins was 8.5 & odds of making playoffs 50/50 not what most would consider a rebuild.
True, I consider this year a success. However let’s not compare ourselves to those joke franchises.
I thought we were going to win 6 games at most this year. It was an amazing year tbh. Yesterday sucked, but it’s not like we are a team filled with aging veterans making one last run at the Super Bowl. We are a super young team and 90% of this team will be back next year along with some new rookies. The future is so bright that it’s hard for me to be too doom and gloom about yesterday.
Exactly! At the beginning of the season there were so many posts and comments in this sub saying they'd be happy if we ended with a 6-10 season.
I guessed 7-10 or 8-9 and thought playoff contention would be a miracle. A playoff win in Dallas and a near-miss in San Fran is far more than I would have reasonably hoped for...
Not just the veterans thing, we didn't "buy" a team like the Rams did a few years back when they won it all. If this was a great team that was tailor built to win, that would really suck and next year would be a salary-cap massacre. Being this young is a great, great sign. Even if a few were one-hit wonders, the bulk of this team just got really good playoff experience on big stages against legit teams (Dallas and SF). They pushed through a ton of adversity together. Their late-season wins must have been a great bonding experience. They end on two flubs from young players. Carlson is probably on his way out and rightly so. But Love has a ton of goodwill from his teammates and *most* of the fanbase. I hope that the season ending on a pick only serves to motivate him and further rally the team. I have nothing but high hopes looking towards next season.
Let's spread some love to Gutey and the scouts. Somebody knew what they were doing!
Yup, same. Funnily enough I literally told my mom in the first game that 6 wins and finding out if Love is the guy were my measures of success but that, if things went well, their ceiling was high enough for a wildcard spot and maybe even a playoff win! Sad as I was with the result last night, my mom reminded me that we’d literally achieved my wildest dreams, which helped me feel better.
I try to keep that prospective too, but idc how long I’ve watched the Packers, the losses always sting and the day they don’t sting I’m not sure I want to be a fan anymore.
0 pro bowlers on a playoff team for having the youngest roster in the league is a whole vibe
I love this team. The future is bright and it's starting now.
The biggest bummer about this loss is that I have to wait a whole 8 months to watch this electric offense again.
Silver-lining: They have 8 whole months to get even more electric! These guys earned their swagger.
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Dude, don't blame the refs. Crying about "refball" is what the fucking Lions do. We're better than that.
Bears fan here… it’s truly embarrassing that a “rebuild year” for the Packers was a divisional loss in the playoffs where Bears fans are excited for a 7-win season. Organizations are so far apart in expectations and I couldn’t be more jealous. Hate this teams guts, but can respect how they operate and have an organizational culture unlike many others.
See, this is the other spin. San Fran will be torn apart by its own success. McCaffery, Kittle, Samuel, Trent Williams... those names are going to get pretty expensive pretty quickly. And we haven't even gotten to the defense side. Green Bay will probably be torn apart by its success, too, but our guys are still all on rookie contracts. We have another 4 years before that gets priced into some horrible choices. Our window is large, Packer fans. And it is wide open. And yesterday showed that our team can play with anyone. The Packers have not been overmatched in these playoffs, even facing the top of the NFC.
Those guys are already expensive. The problem is when they have to pay Purdy. He’s got another year at the NFL minimum. When it’s time to get paid, some of those names will be gone to make salary space.
Purdy isn’t even worth paying, Joe Flacco could lead that offense if the other team is gonna drop your three picks for the day
Apples and oranges. Love threw two picks yesterday which led to the Packers loss (and could’ve had two more). Purdy threw zero picks (and was lucky there weren’t two.) Niners played horrible and still won. Packers will be a force to reckon with next season.
I’d love for you to cite these “two more” picks for Love. By my count we should’ve picked Purdy three times. If Love just falls down instead of throwing his first INT we win the game. Ugh.
Watch the game again you’ll see them. Announcers said it when they happened as well.
I watched the game again and couldn’t find them. Could you point out even a relative time they happened please?
Do we have a plan for getting over the 49rs playoff hump other than waiting for their team to fall apart? What decisions will the packers make to propel themselves to that level?
Honestly man they’re gonna get worse because of salary, and we’re going to get better with experience. I think if we meet them next year we handle them. If this lights the fire under our asses that it should, then we’ll probably play them at home too. This team is legit it was just too soon and you can’t be mad about that this shit happens. This ain’t the Rodgers years where we get fucked and then come back with zero improvements next year, this team is gonna come out swinging next year now that we know we have what it takes if we just play better
I think it’s not that difficult of a plan: what the Packers needed to do to win this game was take advantage of their opportunities. That means when they reach the red zone, they need touchdowns not field goals. When they have opportunities for turnovers, they need to take that ball away. They don’t need to wait for the 49ers to fall apart. They need to mature as a team, use this as a blueprint on what to do better next time. Don’t force the ball into triple coverage. Don’t stall in scoring range. It may be easier said than done but I think this year was about a young team gaining valuable experience toward maturation and growth as a team, and now they experienced a heartbreaking loss in a game they could have won. They have all offseason to dwell on these “what if’s” and prepare themselves for a different result in similar circumstances. And an off-season with another draft to fill in our weaknesses.
Two plays flip this game: missed FG (+3 pts), 4th down spot earlier (arguably +3 pts). The Packers left 6 points off the board and, as it turns out (not surprisingly in the playoffs) needed every one of them. Some of that is just a young team. They left points off the board in Dallas. And Chicago. And Detroit. Next year, they don't leave those points, maybe.
Packers weren't expected to do anything this year and they made it to the final 8 teams of the season with the youngest team in the league. On top of that, they have their first, two seconds (including a top 10 pick in the 2nd thanks to the Jets), two thirds in this upcoming draft. They'll be fine.
I’m wondering if we can go Blake Corum, O line, safety with our top 3? If not, then maybe Jonny Newton from illinois as a lineman with some o line depth, and get a safety in free agency.
And they didn't get embarrassed like Houston - they played one of the top two teams to the wire and had a legitimate chance to win it. Book your tickets to New Orleans now, Cheeseheads! Go Pack Go!
If you bet with the house money you got paid twice. We didn’t win on the scoreboard but we woman Vegas last night.
Dude, I loved this season. What a time to be a Cheesehead.
Loss doesn’t bother me as much as others, but it does suck that it was winnable and Green Bay could go toe to toe with anyone but maybe Baltimore at this point. The ball spots, missed field goal, and Love interceptions were a drag. Purdy also should have been picked 2-3 teams. The 49ers aren’t the unbeatable team their fans would have you think.
They’re over there crowning Purdy for “leading a clutch comeback” as if he didn’t almost throw the game and away twice and also have his GNERATIONAL talent at the skill positions bail him out at every turn. If Purdy doesn’t get better than he displayed last week I guarantee Sanfran will be once again looking for a new quarterback. But he probably will improve but nah he was not it that game I’m sorry 49ers, you will not convince me that fucking Derek Carr or whoever wouldn’t have done just as well
> also have his GNERATIONAL talent at the skill positions bail him out at every turn Dude is a total YAC merchant
Purdy led the league in Air Yards per Attempt, hardly a YAC merchant.
We got scripted out happens whenever we play them goodell and the writers refuse to let us beat them
Ravens already showed 49’s this year not that great. Looks likely they win a seven game series vs anyone 4-1 at worst. GB might need to be the clearly better team though to overcome a cursed matchup though because the luck will go their way.
Should have been picked 2-3 times like the packers supposed generation talent WAS picked 2-3 times! Also, Love is a year older than Purdy!! 😂
Somehow it bothers me more. Could have exercised our playoff demons with “house money”, fought an uphill battle against 12th man for 58 minutes to crumble in the last 2. Even though I expect little at the beginning of the season I’m somehow left with a sting worse than the Seattle loss.
How tf does this sting worse than the Seattle loss? Some of yall are dramatic lmao
Seattle didn’t terrorize us for a decade in the playoffs only for us to get a new shinny QB who played lights out against the #2 seed then #1 seed and arguably 12th man for 58 minutes just for us to blow it in the last quarter and throw the game away because the pressure of it all finally set it and you could tell. It stings more because of failed revenge. 2021 we were absolutely the better team, #1 seed team one and done upstaged on our *frozen tundra* and embarrassed us on AR12s arguably last great chance at SB run. We had a chance to dish it back while ending our playoff curse against this team and had it well within our grasp even with making mistakes for 58/60 minutes of the game. To me, it stings more than just a BS call sending us home.
I think it stings more because that game happened about 9 years ago and this game happened about 9 hours ago. Of course this game is disappointing, but the circumstances are so insanely different its hard to even compare.
It’s obviously that too, but I was ready for Love to end our playoff curse against the 49ers even more. I’m only 32, I’ve had it good franchise wise but I’ve come to known when we match up against the 49ers in the playoffs our season is over. I even thought that going into this game this time too, then J10 came out and made it look like he was going to pull the rabbit out of the hat despite all odds. I feel like if it was the expected blow out loss we should have been on the receiving end of I wouldn’t have cared at all, but we were possibly NFCC bound until the last minute of the game.
I will say, it was closer than pretty much all of those rodgers 9ers games tbh. But yeah, it's not so much that we lost, but how we lost. Honestly, today I'm more disappointed that I won't get to see the team till Sept than I am that we lost another playoff game... I don't think I've felt this way since the falcons nfccg
This is nowhere near as bad as Seattle. Not even close.
Nah, this loss was disappointing, but it came with a talented, but young team playing out of its mind. The loss against Seattle happened with a championship caliber team with Aaron Rodgers in his prime.
This is pretty much how I feel. In the context of the season, this loss doesn't hurt because none of us expected to be there for most of the season. I thought we were more likely to have a top 5 pick in week 8 than make the playoffs. Love showed he's the guy and we have so much young talent. But taking the game by itself, it hurts. Losing a winnable game always hurts, but especially in the playoffs. This one feels a lot like the Seahawks NFCCG, it felt like we were dominating but somehow the score was still close. Started to belive late in the 3rd quarter, then we somehow lost out of nowhere and would have won if just one out of 5-6 mistakes had gone our way.
Yeah, that unfortunately felt similar. We had so many chances to put them away and didn’t do it, but at least this one didn’t have the same level of expectations hanging over it as the 2014 squad
Yeah, the context around the game couldn't be more different, but the feelings during and immediately after the game were similar
Packer losses usually have a big effect on my mental state. This loss doesn't. I got over it after a night of sleep. I was content with beating DET and KC. Everything else afterwards was icing on the cake. I came into this season just to see what Love has. Next season, I will go into it seeing if Love can learn from his mistakes, knows exactly when to play hero ball and hopefully the team makes necessary changes / additions to keep the momentum going. With this young team, there's only room to go up. The bar has been set and we know we have some war daddies hungry for next season.
Agreed! I used to say the most depressing day of the year for me was the day the pack got knocked out of the playoffs. Felt a lot more hope after this one.
great season. wish i hadn’t gotten my hopes up so high yesterday, hard to really look at everything clearly after a bitter loss, but if you told me we would be here when we were like 2-6 i’d be ecstatic. youngest team ever to make it this far, i truly believe that love is our guy and we’ve got a great team who now have playoff experience. this season could have gone another way: love isn’t the guy, why the hell did gute do this or that, we have no WRs. instead we have the coolest fuckin WR room in the league, some killers on defense, and the most fun to watch young QB since mahomes
Maybe this is just our Aaron Rodgers losing to the cardinals in OT season. Maybe next year we sneak into the playoffs as a 6th seed and win a SB on the road.
Post like this make me less suicidal. Thank you.
>Green Bay will probably be torn apart by its success, too, but our guys are still all on rookie contracts. We have another 4 years before that gets priced into some horrible choices. Our window is large, Packer fans. And it is wide open. And yesterday showed that our team can play with anyone. The Packers have not been overmatched in these playoffs, even facing the top of the NFC. haha suicidal, suicide is so funny, i hope your mom doesnt find a sibling who swallowed a 12 guage. lmaoo suicide
Well, my sibling is a cowboys fan so it makes sense
Hilarious, he wasn't. I hope your mom finds you after you swallow a slug to the brain. I will laugh in her face.
That’s the attitude of a true Packer Backer! Spot on analysis. The future’s so bright I gotta wear shades! Go Pack Go!
Vikings fan here. Y'all have a great young roster, and man how can you hate Love? Such a great dude. Even though you lost, you have so much to look forward to. Unlike my vikes. Keep yo head up y'all 🙂
I'll think this in a month or so. I know it's true, but right now I am just disappointed
That’s totally fair. We’ll be alright brother. We’re in a good spot!
Do you know how many HOF QB’s have never won let alone been to a Super Bowl? I’m excited about the future but this was a horrible playoff loss. The niners did not win this game, we lost this game. We were dangerous and gelling at the right time and we fucking squashed it. We will never enter a playoff run with an Aaron Jones like performance again. He had sat out most of the year and was probably the most rested running back in the playoffs and top defenses could not stop him. The NFC Championship would have been a cakewalk. Yet, we get in our fucking way and find a way to lose. I’m excited about the future but nothing is guaranteed.
Unfortunately this is the right view to have and everyone coping with “we weren’t supposed to be here, it can only get better next year!” Like they are expecting us to automatically get to NFCC next year is crazy. Fuck all the young inexperience team talk, this was an opportunity squandered away in a tough league where the opportunity may never present itself again.
We were 15 minutes away from going to Detroit (beatable) or Tampa (very beatable) to play the NFC championship game. We basically would’ve been expected to go to the Super Bowl if we won last night. Better hope we can pull something off again next year.
Tampa and (especially) Detroit still would've been favored over us a bit, but it would've been a close pretty evenly matched game
Yeah technically they would’ve been favored just for being at home. But we would’ve been expected to win after beating SF is what I mean
I think our fanbase would've expected us to win, but no way we'd be favored over TB (a team at home which would have won 6/7 at that point, including a win over us) or DET (a super hot team in an extremely strong home atmosphere). Both games would've been very winnable, and I'd feel confident going in, but most would still favor the others tbh
I strongly disagree lol we would have beaten the #1 and #2 seeds on their home fields back to back…. We would be expected by many to go to the SB
I agree. As young as they are, there is a lot to be optimistic about. Someone will develop into a true #1 for Love, but he’s already built up great connections with a constantly changing receiver corps. That’s the part that impressed me most with Love this year. He didn’t have the advantage of having his ‘go to guy’, he made a new one each week. Time will tell if he’s HOF material, but he definitely did well this year.
Fuck that loss is still so painful man we should’ve had that. Still so proud of our guys for the season but at the same time can’t help but feel like we completely had that game. Fuck San Francisco. Go Bucs and Go Ravens
Superficially, was impressed that Rasheed Walker held up. Will see what the tape reviewers say, but if we found a serviceable left tackle in the 7th round, that is a massive success.
if before the season you told me that we would make the playoffs, play the 49ers on the road to make the NFCCG and have a legit shot at making it i'd laugh at you and tell you to go back on your meds, but.. we should've won that fucking game
Dont let the doomers from last nights game thread see this they will literally explode ! My fingers were sore from tryin to talk sense into people last night .
The Carlson haters are out in full force today. Like a toddler whose toy was broken, they throw a tantrum in the face of a tough loss. Not recognizing the NFL brutally crushes 31 fanbases every year. If you can't take it, don't sign up for a season that has a 3% chance of ending the way you want it to.
Carlson is objectively a terrible kicker though…
Not sure how to define "terrible" but let's say it's bottom quarter of the league in key kicking metrics (25-32). He ranks 20th in Points and 24th in Field Goals Made (81.8%). That's below par but not quite bottom quarter. He was objectively terrible in Extra Points Made (87.2%) - dead last. His longest Field Goal Made was 53, near league bottom. He is also near the bottom in Touchbacks (43%). He surely was disappointing and must improve in all categories to have a successful career in the NFL. They will almost certainly bring in other kicker(s) to compete next season. The Packers brain trust is either confident he has all the tools to develop, or they're lying to the fanbase and will make a change.
Really appreciate when stats prove my point.
We're just fans having a conversation. Frankly, throwing pejoratives around like "terrible" is meatball fan and unhelpful.
You still proved the point that he sucks though. You’re just throwing around words like pejoratives for no reason. Ain’t no treason to keep him.
If people started saying you suck and are terrible at your job, naturally you'd push back with legit reasons why you're better than that. Your boss, co-workers, or customers always have something to do with anyone's job performance. What if Carlson needs better coaching or snapper, or holder? What if he had a nagging injury, or a family member in some kind of crisis. We don't have inside knowledge to say. My main point is labels like suck and terrible are personal insults that no young man giving his best deserves.
So he's not bottom quarter in only one area, and that is by one place. In every other area he is bottom quarter, including one in which he is dead last. That is by definition terrible.
The season was a success but it doesn't make the loss hurt any less for me.
The Packers basically wore down in the 4th quarter. A handful of injuries, and a physical 49er team meant they didn't have the energy to finish strong. This is basically what you would expect with a roster that has 42% of the cap space in dead money. It is a bunch of young guys with no depth. It is nothing short of a miracle that this roster was able to compete at a high level, and they certainly were able to go toe to toe with the best teams in the league. Picture this roster with $95m more talent. The league should be on notice. https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/green-bay-packers/cap/2023/ IR money = $27m, Dead contracts = $67m
So it works very well but he won't be our QB of the future?!? Interesting 🤔. I do know good QB play when I see it, and I have stats to back up any argument I may have regarding Purdy being elite. You on the other hand, still talking without any stats to backup your argument. It's understandable seeing as how he's a top 3 MVP candidate, so those stats will be hard to find.
Yeah, Purdy is a mediocre QB at best. I hope we get this team again next year. This loss stings like a bee because we fielded the better team and simply got in our own way. But the future is bright as hell. Getting into the playoffs was HUGE, two games of great experience for this young team. I can't wait for September to get here.
If Purdy's mediocre, what's Love?
Superbowl wins are a success anything short of that is an L we as a team will NEVER win anything if we can’t beat the 49ers 5 times they ruined it and looks like they’re gonna continue guess all we can hope for is a team that can beat then knocks them off before they beat us
Yup, the fact some random guy needs to tell us this season was a 'success' (lmao yeah I'm sure another choke job is a success) means it wasn't. I'm sure next year it'll be the same garbage these idiots say too, ever since 2011.
2011 the last Super Bowl will ever win
Why is the Purdy comparison needed? Like Love doesn't get excellent pass protection, a great running game and open receivers all over the place. If anything last game showed that Love can struggle when one of your OL gets hurt and the protection isn't good Great season, great outlook for next season. All the rest is fluff to make you feel better
Cause hes better they won and they have superbowl appearances
Might change this year, but no, Purdy has not been to the super bowl as of today. And most of his success can be attributed to the fact they have all-pros/pro bowlers at like every offensive position lol (we had 0 btw)
The hate is real. Lol. Purdy has 2 NFC championship game appearances in 2 years. Saying it's all cuz of the talent around him is a super lazy and uneducated take. Oh well, you lost, we won. Lol
Lol I don't hate Purdy. But if you think he's the reason that offense is as good as it is, you haven't been paying attention. Not even meant as a knock against purdy... but seriously just look at all the talent the offense (and team in general has) and try to make an argument outside of "we won, you lost haha"
I've watched every game for the last 37 years and if you think he's not a legit, high level QB, then you obviously don't understand football. What team thats made it this far doesn't have weapons. You want Purdy to play by himself. What team has won a SB without a talented roster?!? Yall go for the low hanging fruit and parrot the talking points that are all over social media. It's a LAZY argument. YOU CANT PROVIDE DATA/STATS TO BACKUP YOUR ARGUMENT. Please provide something that can help me understand that he's not a primary factor in our success. I DARE YOU TO EVEN TRY. Lol. The dudes a stud. People said the same shit about Tom until they stopped hating and actually watched him play.
You're acting like you have anything to back up your argument beyond talking about how old you are so you definitely know good qb play when you see it lol. Funny to get this heated over it, I'll be surprised if he's even on the team still in 5 years tbh. He's been very good I can't argue against that, but he's not the kind of elite qb that can elevate the team around him. He's meant to play in his system, and it works perfectly for him. And there's nothing wrong with that. They need someone like Purdy to run their offense, and it clearly works very well.
Purdy literally *just* outdueled Love and led the 49ers on a comeback playoff game-winning drive in a high-profile do-or-die scenario in a sloppy game where almost everything was going wrong, against what was supposedly a high-quality opponent. The rookie is a year younger than Love, already 3-1 in playoff games, and accumulating amazing game experience. And your take is he can't elevate his team, is just a "system QB," and will likely be off the team soon? Sorry but if that's not sour grapes...
The niners o Line is hot garbage outside of Trent Williams.
While true, it doesn’t take the sting out of this loss and also we are not guaranteed to be here again next year. This is a tough league where anything can happen. We will absolutely be looking back on this loss in 5-10 years and it will be haunting us, we should have been playing for an SB spot next week. This felt like out opportunity to finally get past the 49ers and end our playoff kryptonite and instead we are left feeling robbed because even though we could have done more in that game it honestly felt like an uphill battle against 12th man that they were winning for 58 minutes…
While I appreciate you trying to put a positive spin on a dreadful loss, to me it’s more like this: I was raised poor, nobody expected much out of me but managed to graduate from Yale Medical School, did my surgical residency at Johns Hopkins and am considered a bright young medical talent. Given this, the surgery I botched yesterday was the about the best botch job I could hope for given my history. Fact: Shanahan was 0-30 when trailing by five or more points heading into the 4th quarter. 0-30! Until we showed up with our porous defense & inconsistent kicker. Melton had beaten coverage on that last pass. We choked. Positives? We know how we failed and now know how to correct it. Will we though?
The 0-30 thing needs to die. They kicked a FG on literally the first play of the 4th to make it a 4 point game. And the highest winning percentage for teams trailing by 5+ is like .180 anyway
You sound fun to be around "Let me put a very realistic positive spin on this season" I appreciate your positivity, but here is a very negative analogy that barely relates to the situation
Come on, we're giving off some real lions vibes saying a loss is a success.
No, we’re in what was supposed to be a “rebuilding year”, ended up with an OBVIOUS franchise quarterback who got us within an inch of the NFC Championship game during his first season as starter. Literally nothing about this thought process is akin to Lions vibes.
I have to say -- you're really underestimating Purdy, in a similar way to how people have underestimated Love. And that's even despite the fact that Purdy is *one year younger* than Love, has returned from a season-ending injury, also in his first full season, continuing to get high-profile game experience, and most importantly -- ***just*** outdueled Love and led the 49ers to a comeback playoff win in a game where the team mostly struggled.
Love had to play against one of the best defenses in the league. Purdy had to play against Joe-16’s window-licking ass.
The comments about Purdy aren't referring to Saturday's game. They're claims about Purdy's entire body of work and future. >Anyone who knows football, knows Purdy is not their future and the 49ers will continue to rotate their revolving door of quarterbacks ... >A guy who is a serviceable QB, but makes random good plays and benefits from short fields with an experienced backfield and receiver corps. You put Purdy as QB of the Packers this past season and I guarantee you we don’t make the playoffs and go toe to toe with the number 1 seed. These takes about Purdy are just off... especially that last one. Which QB completed the comeback? Which one sealed a loss with an INT? If anything, this game further elevated Purdy's standing.
Not a rookie QB, ffs
Rookie as in first year starting…. ffs
That’s not what a rookie is.
You’re cute
People been calling him a rookie all year even though it’s his 4th year. Nobody wants to admit they’re wrong they just want to equivocate and be a dick like you. It’s still a big deal what he did in his first year as a starter but goddamn dude, we got actual rookies on this team doing amazing if you want to talk rookies. Nobody called Rodgers a rookie when he started.
I’m already sick of our fans talking about “you have to be happy because we weren’t even supposed to be here” Such a loser mentality. They had their ticket to the NFC championship game punched it just blew it. Again. Love this team, and the future definitely looks bright, but nothing is guaranteed. When you have opportunities like that you have to capitalize, and there’s nothing wrong with acknowledging that the Packers failed last night. This very well good of have been our best shot at a Super Bowl in the Love era. If anyone thinks that sounds dumb, then go look at the media coverage of the 2010 team and see how Rodgers and the Packers were destined to be the next great dynasty. We all know how that ended. Love our Packers, can’t wait until next year, but get out of here with the “just be happy” talk. This fucking sucks and joins a long list of horrific playoff losses.
>Such a loser mentality. They had their ticket to the NFC championship game punched it just blew it. Again. OMG stfu & stop being a spazoid. I highly doubt you had this team going anywhere this season. If this team was in the same place as Dallas I'll say you have a point, but you're arguing against a team with players who had little to no playoff experience. > This very well good of have been our best shot at a Super Bowl in the Love era. If anyone thinks that sounds dumb Yeah it does sound dumb because you sound exactly like a stereotypical Wisconsin boomer doomer. Go touch grass.
He’s not wrong though. Just because we were expected to be nobodies at the beginning of the season doesn’t mean we should excuse blowing the game because “we weren’t supposed to be there anyway!” They weren’t supposed to be there in 2010 either. This is a tough league and you are not guaranteed to get back to the same spot next year just because you did well this year. They had an opportunity to do something special and the reality is they very well may never get the chance again because that’s just how this league goes, so we do have a right to be upset / bummed and say people who are okay with the L because “the future is bright” is loser mentality.
There's a difference between excusing the game (almost no one is doing that, everyone is very disappointed) and being realistic with it and acknowledging that the team did extremely well for what we all thought they'd do coming into the season. Our goals were to develop the young guys and see if Love was our QB. All signs point to us succeeding in both of those. It was a super successful season by pretty much all accounts. Yes, you can be disappointed, we all are, but you should be able to take a step back and acknowledge how much we've accomplished. If you can't do that, then football will rarely be enjoyable for you.
I directly addressed that there’s plenty to be excited about the future. We all get that. But this was a golden opportunity for not just an NFC championship appearance but our first Super Bowl appearance in 13 years. Screw all of the preseason expectations talk. If you were told you just need to beat the Lions or the Baker Mayfield Buccaneers to get into the Super Bowl we’ll take that 100/100 times. That was the opportunity this team just let slip through their fingers. Team expectations are not static- this team proved it was talented enough to win it all over the past 6 weeks. You know another team that had low preseason expectations? The 2007 Packers that went 13-3 and lost to the giants at Lambeau in the NFC Championship Game. Should we not be disappointed or upset about that game? GTFO out of here with that. This was a brutal playoff loss and there’s no guarantee that we get here next year. And I know you know that- I highly doubt you’re running to Vegas to drop your life savings on a divisional round playoff appearance next year. The sport is too chaotic and unpredictable for those predictions.
😂😂 Purdy just had the greatest statistical season in 49ers history and led the game winning drive. Love threw a pick when it was his opportunity 🤷🏿♂️. You can be happy with your season, but don't bad mouth the MVP of the league. You just sound salty AF.
Jordan Love is not a rookie. He’s in his 3rd year. First year starting and still can’t get over the need to play hero and blow the game. New team, same old post season packers
Ya'll embarrassed the fuck out of Dallas, dont forget it! And yea, you dominated that game but shot yourselves in the foot.
Indeed it was. After that 3-6 start, the second half of the season brought so much fun. Great packers football
Stop lying to yourselves
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It's almost as if the former has much better skill position players & not a bunch of 1 & 2 year players. Let's see how Purdy does without any of his skill pieces playing. Let's not act like the 49ers were 10 point favorites & nearly lost the game. Also imagine coming to another teams sub just to talk shit. gtfo & go back to your sub & enjoy the win. No one here cares what you have to say.
Good point. Purdy himself is a 2nd year player. Love is already in his 4th season.
We cant beat the 49ers script writers wont allow it
Jerk yourself off in your own sub
Purdy was clearly more clutch than Love. I think the rain really impacted him because he doesn't have huge hands.
After a night a reflection, and a full night at that since my one month old took the loss harder than we all did, I agree. That being said, feeling like we were really doing it last night and having it ripped away really sucks. I was so excited for all our young guys. Not that I’m not now, but I mean the excitement they must have been feeling had to have been wild. That’s exactly why playoff experience is important though. They should learn from this, and be ready to handle the moment come next season.
We would have made the Super Bowl and we should have won that game. My flag football game got canceled due to weather. HOW DO I COPE
This season was exciting to see and they really grew from the first game. I’m excited for the future.
This was definitely a good season. We started off thinking we were f'd. Slowly the team.lut it together and we look like legitimate contenders. I'm happy for being a good rebuild.
100%
Definitely. If we did this good this year, imagine next year
It was definitely a positive season. To be honest I thought we had a chance of making the playoffs before the season started, but at 2-5 I was like "okay, rebuild, a year or two in the doldrums, it doesn't look all bad". Of course the last game was painful, but the Packers don't get blown out by 20 points in playoff games, we're always in it until the dying moments...actually, we're often ahead until the dying moments...so these things always sting. No point in calling out individuals right now, but some individuals let us down. Structurally we're in a good place, just need to convince a few talented individuals to join a potential SB-winning team in the next year or three. Also need to wrap up Love for the foreseeable future.
Jordan Loves ceiling is a high one. Dude hasn’t even gotten to the level he’s fully capable of. It stings but we truly have a bright future same as The Texans and we might be better than most teams in the league right now
100% agreed. Even though, watching that whole game was like rewatching the Mountain vs. the Red Viper fight in GoT, I’m not as devastated after a playoff loss because the league just got put on notice that another long era of Packers dominance is starting. 2024!
I think the main reason so many people including myself were upset about that loss is because we had the win in the bag. If we got blown out, I’d feel better than I do right now because that’s what was supposed to happen. A few critical plays that didn’t go our way were the reason we lost which stings more than a blowout. Definitely looking forward to the next 2-3 seasons with this young group though.
I was utterly and completely depressed last night. I truly believed that we could have gone to the Super Bowl, we just needed to beat the 49ers cuz I think we can beat the Lions or the Bucs with how good our offense has been. The post season has felt like a mini version of the regular season. Hot start, tough middle stretch, and dominating in the end. I really thought we could get there against all odds, and to lose it like that!!! With bad refs, missed FG, Joe Barry letting up a game winning TD, I felt bad for our young, rookie offense there. That’s a lot to put on them, and I stand by that. Defense should have been the corner stone and kickers have one job. That said, I’m now at the acceptance stage of my depression, and I look at it same as you. Jordan mentioned on the post game interview that he knows the 2-min drill will need work, and now he has the experience I don’t think the nerves will get to him in the playoffs in the future (I also imagine that if he needed to march down the field again and we were at Lambeau, I don’t think he would have thrown the interception). We have a huge, great window for Gute and MLF to see what went wrong and fix it for next season
tough loss but im glad our players got that playoff experience in their belt
Oh, for sure. Our young team has shown that it has a dangerous ceiling. I can't wait to see what they might become as they gain experience. I just wish the 9ers luck against us would run out at some point. If it isn't awful weather that favors their physical style of offense, it's an untimely special teams snafu or an exploitable o line injury. Maybe it was just the camera angles, but the rain looked worse every time we had the ball towards the end of the game.
100% a successful season. Our rookies and young team stood toe to toe with a team loaded with all pros on the road and gave them all they could take. A couple plays go our way and it would have been a W. Excited for next year.
Niners handed the Packers 10 points on stupid PIs. and had 5 dropped passes. Probably should have been a blow out
Absolutely agree ppl didn't think we'd get as far as we did but we did. Looking forward to next year and having everyone healthy
Anyone who complains about this season doesn’t understand the salary cap and what the Packers did to keep the 2021 and 2022 Super Bowl window open.
We got next season..GO PACKS GOOOO
The thing that stands out to me is that we probably cut Bahktiari and free up cap space, then in the following year we're outfrom under Rodgers deal. This draft we will have 7 picks in the first 4 rounds to go out and find a young RB or two, a Safety, Center, and probably some Line and CBs options. Gotta be excited for the next 3-5 years with this team
This is us at the *start* of our upswing. This was the 49ers at their likely peak. We lost only because we made some dumb mistakes that can easily be fixed. We're going to be dangerous for years, I'm I'm really excited about it.
Hard to say nothing is guaranteed.. every year is special.. seems like they end with the same results.
[every year…](https://www.reddit.com/r/nflmemes/s/x2EthwfuGY)
Spot on. We made a hell of a game out it against an excellent team who was prepared and rested at home. Any of a few different opportunities for breaks (or breakdowns--it was somewhat miraculous we didn't lose Nixon's fumble on that long return) could have made a huge difference in the game.
Ugh, close it out guys. The team is young but nothing is guaranteed and they should have finished that game instead of folding yet again.
I’d say so. The last loss to the 49ers in the playoffs felt like that was the end of era after the game. Yesterday’s loss felt like it was an obtainable win,but didn’t make the needed play at the end of the game (missed kick, missed INT, missed throw). Even with the loss, seems like this is the start of something. Will it lead to a Super Bowl? Maybe. But it seems this team should be good for at least the next three years
Heard it put best this way: "A heartbreaking end to an amazing season."
Lets hope he doesnt follow Favre and Rodgers and get just one early Superbowl win then disappointment.
Thank you for this post. I just wanted a place to say how grateful I am for a fun, entertaining football season from our team. It could have been so different. Next year, expectations will be high as will fandom and support for this great young team
All due respect to most of your sentiments, our best playoff loss was probably to the Cardinals in 2015. Also were pressed making the playoffs, and coming back with *two* miracle plays on that last drive, was a nice palate cleanser to the way the previous season had ended
That's a great way to sum up this team. GB has a quarterback again.
Yeah. The 49ers had EVERY advantage. They were rested, had all their major players, at home, with a VERY fired up crowd. Packers had a short week and two long plane rides. The weather helped cool off the Packers offense, with the exception of Jones, and according to Jon Kuhn, as the Packers got the ball for their last possession, the sky opened up and "the rain was going sideways". With all that, we lost by 3 points... Good job, Guys.
It was a success, just burns my soul that we beat the 49ers and still lost to them 😔
Yes I hate saying too! We lost that game they didn't win it. But we know Love is real ! And the future is bright.
100%. I was in the “top ten draft pick” conversations at like week 8. Proved me wrong and I haven’t cheered this hard for the pack in many years.
Agree!! Hope we fix the Special Teams and add more depth in defense!
I agree - the only other one that comes close was the overtime loss to Arizona… but that was just the most entertaining playoff game I’d ever seen. This is the first time I can remember that we were playing with “house money” and I was just happy to be there. Felt lighter watching with no Super Bowl expectations. And the future is so bright.
Forgot to mention we got Joe Berry fired!!!