The Packers secured a playoff berth Monday night with a dominant 34-0 shutout win over the New Orleans Saints and are the team that no one wants to face when the postseason gets underway, but Green Bay also has a pretty big benefit of their own to look forward to when the NFL Playoffs kickoff.
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Amid a stretch where the Packers have scored 30 or more points in five consecutive games, head coach Matt LaFleur‘s team won’t have to take on a franchise that has had their number in recent years, during their unlikely quest for a Lombardi Trophy.
Just before Christmas, NFL reporter Mike Tanier put together a list of the perfect “stocking stuffers” for each NFL team, including perhaps the Packers’ biggest benefit as the postseason looms.
“[Green Bay] won’t face the 49ers in the playoffs this year,” Tanier writes for The Too Deep Zone. “That’s a pretty awesome gift.”
Unlike the Packers, the 49ers have been eliminated from postseason contention, and won’t have the chance to end a second consecutive Green Bay season as quarterback Brock Purdy and Co. did in last year’s NFC Divisional Playoffs.
Likewise, the Packers were able to exact a pound of flesh against the 49ers, getting some revenge and playing a role in San Francisco missing the postseason when Green Bay toppled San Francisco 38-10 back in Week 12.
Green Bay might not yet know its final seeding or playoff opponent, but the Packers do know it won’t be the 49ers staring at them from across the field on the opposite sideline.
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