Bernman wrote:Kerb Hohl wrote:McCarthy is just owning the mind games here. What a mentality and mindset to exercise the mental demons this year so far.
Oh yeah...toughness, too. They should open up Candlestick and play a game there to exercise those demons.
You are really something else. You don't let things go, even when you're proven wrong, you try and twist it around to make it seem like you are the voice of reason.
Most athletes will tell you by the time you get to this level the sport is mostly mental because the physical differences aren't that big. The game against Seattle last year couldn't have reinforced that more. We grinded out a win vs. Seattle in a different environment, and one against a 49ers' team that was a shell of themselves. That's a positive to not play the "here we go again" game in subsequent meetings in different environments maybe or when they are more stout. That's a component of whether you win and lose, beyond skill match-ups, and who is purely better.
Now, let it go. It's unhealthy that you can't.
Beating Seattle i think was important beyond just the win vs a team the Packers potentially could see in the playoffs again.
Had we lost to this version of the 49ers though today, i really doubt that the players would have cared anymore than losing to a different below average team which should have been a win. Harbaugh is gone, a lot of what made up their great defense is gone, and their OL no longer could push our defense around.
The only way i could have seen a Packers loss today bringing about old demons is if Kaepernick and their offense has read optioned the defense into numerous big back breaking gains, bringing back nightmares of arguably the worst defensive game plan ever in a playoff loss when Capers was left with a blank look on his face multiple times as San Fran absolutely shredded his defense to the tune of nearly 600 yards.
Playing San Fran today would be somewhat similar to the 90's Packers facing a bad Dallas team without Jimmy Johnson, multiple members of their once dominant OL gone or old, no Deion Sanders, no Emmitt, no Michael Irvin, etc. Finally beating them no longer a huge deal as most of what made those Dallas teams both so great and so frustrating to lose to were no longer there.