Yeah I watched the game with my friend who's a 49ers fan and he was getting frustrated by their missed opportunities all game. So it really does depend on perspective.Kerb Hohl wrote:Ron Swanson wrote:If the NFL has taught me anything, it's that you throw out the analytics once you get to the postseason. We didn't play our best football and yet still should have beaten the team everyone said was an unstoppable NFC juggernaut. I'm just gonna disagree that you chalk it up to "well, it was a tough road so you can't blame them". The opportunities were there and we just didn't execute. "Youngest team in the league" or not, they certainly weren't playing like it the past 10-12 weeks, and I think that should therefore shift your expectations. All that said, yes, I'm very excited about the future going forward, just also very bummed that we should arguably be favorites to come out of the NFC right now instead of sitting at home.
I mean, again, we are wearing Packers glasses. The 49ers played a spectacularly **** game by their standards. If we're judging how we should feel coming out of a game, I can guarantee you the 49ers can play a way better game than that. Purdy's hands did not do him favors in the rain. We got so many gifted bad throws on 3rd down or whatever, even if we dropped some key INTs.
About all I can say is I would never "throw out the analytics." Yes, the full season analytics would say the 49ers were head-and-shoulders better than the Packers. The last 10 weeks analytics agreed, the Packers were a top 5 NFL team. But they also had a short week of rest and were on the road, so that cancelled out a bit...but still was probably why the Packers covered the spread and had a chance to win. But you could kind of say similar things about the Texans. They have CJ Stroud and blew the doors off the Browns. But the Ravens played well and kicked the **** out of them, as they should have.
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