In scanning a great many of Packer fans’ disparaging comments following the Saturday night giveaway, the one that hits home with me is that by the middle of the third quarter you knew what the outcome of the Packers-Niners game was going to be. That’s exactly how I felt, simply because we’ve been down this road before.
We’ve seen repeated failures to win the NFCCG, we’ve seen the pattern of San Francisco out-playing and out-coaching the Pack, and we’ve seen the tendency to string a bunch of three-and-out offensive drives just when the Pack was in a position to put a game out of reach.