The Green Bay Packers‘ preparations for this week’s NFC Championship Game against the San Francisco 49ers will require revisiting November’s meeting with the same team. The 49ers utterly embarrassed the Packers in that game, sending them back to Green Bay after a 37-8 defeat. It placed a spotlight on the gap between the two teams.
Matt LaFleur’s team responded perfectly to this humiliating defeat, winning all six games since, including Sunday’s divisional-round victory over the Seattle Seahawks. Green Bay matched San Francisco’s regular-season record, and had it not been for a stop on the one-yard line in the 49ers’ victory over the Seahawks in Week 17, the top seed would’ve belonged to the Packers.