Richard Sherman shocked us when he explained the San Francisco 49ers’ game plan against the Green Bay Packers in their regular season matchup last year. It centered around stopping the run, the inference being the Green Bay receivers wouldn’t be able to get open against man-to-man and single-high safety coverage. That approach clearly worked for the 49ers, but when Mike Zimmer tried it on Sunday, Aaron Rodgers did what Aaron Rodgers used to do against defenses like that: lit them on fire.
“I just see as it as disrespect and I think the whole wideout group looks at it like that,” Davante Adams said of loaded boxes, after tying a Packers franchise record with 14 grabs for 156 yards and 2 touchdowns against the Vikings.