Updated to include a comment by Packers OC Adam Stenavich
Packers news and rumors time. It’s Friday, the day before the youthful Green Bay Packers play the most important game of the season and their careers. Packers vs San Francisco 49ers is going to be a barn burner, folks.
A win against Kyle Shanahan’s niners will bring the Packers one step closer to a Super Bowl and one step closer to me being able to use this unironically. You have your dreams and I have mine.

Nick Bosa on What Makes Jordan Love Different Than Aaron Rodgers

This comment by Bosa inspired a lot of others to finally say what most of us have been thinking: Aaron Rodgers is a renegade rebel. To a fault. Looks cool on YouTube and in sound bites, but not always on the field consistently.
Some media outlets have chosen to focus more on this comment below, but this seems pretty standard for anyone talking about an opponent’s QB going into the playoffs. I also think maybe Bosa is underestimating the impact of the Packer offensive line here.
It’s no secret to anyone by now that LaFleur likes to get his RBs/TEs involved a lot and RB Aaron Jones’ return to the field in particular has helped Love improve his accuracy and performance (not to mention the fan-freaking-tastic O-line lately and a million other factors).
So many are discounting AJ Dillon, but he still has a role in all this since him lining up can be used as another misdirection for LaFleur. Speaking of misdirection, Packers vs 49ers could end up being a masterclass in it with both Shanahan and LaFleur working with communicative QB1s this season. Bottom line is Dillon and Jones are two different styles of RBs with slightly different expectations from the defense.
LaFleur once referred to Dillon and Jones as having two RB1s and I think he still has that confidence in AJ Dillon and so should we. Dillon is listed as questionable for the game along with CB Jaire Alexander. I expect to see Jaire, but can’t say on Dillon.
Mike McCarthy Sticking with the Cowboys Another Season
Despite the best wishes and incessant social media whining of Skip Bayless, Dallas Cowboys owner and Source-of-the-Problem, Jerry Jones, has decided that stability is exactly what the Cowboys need at the moment and I agree.
Fast food hack hobbyist and statistically successful NFL coach, Mike McCarthy, has the goods, for now, and who knows? Maybe Jones will learn to stay the f— out of the way more in the future.

Cowboys Cheerleaders Claim Packers Dissed Them
A cheerleader for the Dallas Cowboys posted a video on her TikTok in which she described unnamed Packer players yelling at them aggressively during the game. Definitely should be taken seriously, but also seems like something has to be on video somewhere, given where it happened, so I’d like to wait on that.
I have no word of it, but can only assume there is some sort of team investigation into it, so I will post updates.

Aaron Rodgers last play in the 13-10 playoff loss to the 49ers will ever be etched in my mind. Throwing late and incomplete to Davante Adams on a go route in double coverage while a wide open Allan Lazard runs a crossing route. It was never hard to scheme against Aaron Rodgers. He could get away with his free lance nonsense with lesser teams during the regular season. Come playoff time it was a whole different story. Thus his abysmal playoff record. It’s not like Nick Bosa isn’t saying what everyone knows to be true. When you’re willing to use the whole field and throw to everyone. It puts a tremendous amount of stress of a defense. And that’s what Jordan Love does.
The Dallas Cowboys will always have limitations with Dak Prescott at QB and Jerry Jones as owner. If I’m Big Mike, I’m in a no win situation in Dallas, and I’d want out. There’s just no way this ends well for Mike McCarthy. If Joe Barry’s defense played like Dan Quinn’s. Packer fans would want Joe Barry’s head on a platter. Yet it’s McCarthy everyone wants fired.
The key to the game tomorrow will be our offense line. If they can protect Jordan Love, he’ll carve up the 49er secondary. There’s no way system QB Brock Purdy can match Jordan Love in a shootout. Earlier in the season Brock Purdy wasn’t in the same class as Lamar Jackson. Purdy needs the perfect roster. Luckily for him he may have it.
“If Jordan Love can keep improving, he could be the next Brock Purdy” – Princess
I love you guys….so smart 😁
This is the most fun a Packers team has been in quite some time. I don’t care what happens tomorrow, this team is enjoying this position they are in as underdogs, and it’s rubbing off on any fans that aren’t happiness voids. Rather than “this player isn’t producing” despite dick slapping a team all day, I am enjoying the ride. The only problem comes next year when there are expectations. How does this young team handle those expectations?
By believing in themselves, since practically nobody else (including myself) gave them ANY chance; look how they’re acting now. Since they’re already in the playoffs my guess is that, come what may, they’ll want to return. It’ll be up to the coaches to temper their expectations. Look how Jordan Love is playing – did he play like it was his first playoff experience?
Even if they do not go any further, this season’s team will be held up as an example.
What should be held up as an example is the formula of success for 1st round QB’s.
Way too many QB’s are thrown in the fire too early starting their rookie season.
Not many QB’s have success their first year, it happens, but not often. See Stroud, Herbert.
We saw how Love looked in his 2nd season against the Chiefs. So we can then imagine what he would have looked like starting his first season or two being as raw and undeveloped as he was.
I understand not every team has an established HOF QB to provide that luxury,
But at the same time, having/signing a NFL veteran to start, then sitting out your first round QB to learn the NFL game might be the better way to go for the long haul, even if just for one year.
There are a ton of adverse effects that can happen to a 1st round QB struggling his first year, social media and talking heads just tearing him down can be a lot for these kids to handle.
Huge thunderstorm coming to Northern California starting tomorrow. This could work to our favor and greatly slow down the 49er pass rush. At the very least it might just even the playing field for both sides. This could be the type of game AJ Dillion shines. If he can play.
depending on wx and field conditions, the home advantage will be somewhat neutralized, but the conditions also make for a “roll of the dice” outcome due to random breaks for either team e.g. turnovers, ref roulette, etc.
Let’s start with the cheerleader stuff. If and that is a big IF, if it happened, that needs to stop. Young men, would you want someone to do that to your mother? But let’s see some video. In a place that huge, with that many people, where are all the cell phone videos? The 49’er defense in the middle is extremely stout, so that needs to be blocked up well. I think the Packers can block well, enough to get lanes for Jones to explode through. If Dillon plays and he doesn’t trip over himself, or run into his own linemen, he will have opportunities to put some hits on Wagner. The backend of this 49’er defense is nothing special. I think it will be hard to cover all the recievers Green Bay has, Packer tight ends could have a great game today, as could Jones with the dump offs. Packers can win this game, and they don’t need to play perfect to do so, just limit the mistakes. No special team phuck ups, not a lot of missed tackles. As always, Go Pack