NFL Playoff Picture: Why Home Field Gives the Green Bay Packers a Real Advantage

The Packers have a REAL advantage playing at home against everybody except the 49ers! Don't get me wrong, we will have the crowd advantage, but that is probably about all the advantage home field will provide against THAT team. Home field advantage is very big against every other team in the NFC playoffs.

except the 49er's? thought it was homefield, throughout?

Go Blue wrote:

except the 49er's? thought it was homefield, throughout?

It is. I just don't see a huge homefield advantage over the 49ers. The Packers have a homefield advantage over the 49ers, but it's smaller than the advantage over other NFC playoff teams. The 49ers have played very well on the road so far this season and they have a team that should play well in adverse weather.

Maybe mostly because the 49ers are good, not due to weather, even to, they aren't used to real cold.......they may have the ability to run the ball, at Matthews, which nullifies his persuit....

Conventional wisdom says a high powered offense is needed to beat the Packers but those teams have failed every time. Kansas City is much more like the 49ers than the Saints! I've been telling a 49er friend of mine for months that I'm more concerned about his team than the ones all the experts say have the best chance to beat the Packers. In the end, there can be only one. Regardless of relative strengths and weaknesses one team will reign victorious. I'm hoping it will be the Packers, but nearly every playoff game is a close battle and anything can happen and sometimes does.

49ers are a good running team so the cold wont hurt them nearly as much as N.O. and SF has a better defense as well.

eric wrote:

49ers are a good running team so the cold wont hurt them nearly as much as N.O. and SF has a better defense as well.

Personally, if the Saints and 49ers meet, I'm rooting for the Saints.

eric wrote:

49ers are a good running team so the cold wont hurt them nearly as much as N.O. and SF has a better defense as well.

I agree....anyone on here, see the defensive end, for the Lions, intercept the pass from Rivers of the Chargers?....with one hand....geesh.....you know, the Lions could play up a bit, in the playoffs.....

Chargers stink...

Go Blue wrote:

<quoted text> I agree....anyone on here, see the defensive end, for the Lions, intercept the pass from Rivers of the Chargers?....with one hand....geesh.....you know, the Lions could play up a bit, in the playoffs.....

But at the end of the day, "they are the lions" and will find a way to lose a playoff game

Laughing Bear Fan wrote:

<quoted text>But at the end of the day, "they are the lions" and will find a way to lose a playoff game

Much like the Saints...

Chokefest wrote:

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Much like the Saints...

Have to watch out for the Giants...
between the Zebra's doing everything to keep the NYC market tuned to the playoffs
Coach Turn Head and Coughlin's grasp of reality-
Mario Slammingham's hand-checking
The Giants could turn out to be the cinder-fella of this years playoffs

Laughing Bear Fan wrote:

<quoted text>Have to watch out for the Giants...
between the Zebra's doing everything to keep the NYC market tuned to the playoffs
Coach Turn Head and Coughlin's grasp of reality-
Mario Slammingham's hand-checking
The Giants could turn out to be the cinder-fella of this years playoffs

I wouldnt discount anyone in the playoffs EXCEPT who ever makes it from the AFC West, the loser Texans and the overrated Saints...

Eli has Down Syndrome wrote:

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I wouldnt discount anyone in the playoffs EXCEPT who ever makes it from the AFC West, the loser Texans and the overrated Saints...

timmy 55:6 ...and The Lord shall riseth on the 7th day, part the red sea and produce turnover after turnover. And he shal feedeth the starving with all his turnovers

Laughing Bear Fan wrote:

<quoted text>But at the end of the day, "they are the lions" and will find a way to lose a playoff game

We were both laughing last year, when the Packers got in as a wildcard.....whether you admit it or not.....

Go Blue wrote:

<quoted text> We were both laughing last year, when the Packers got in as a wildcard.....whether you admit it or not.....

I'm always laughing

I was'nt laughing, when Cutler went down.....

Go Blue wrote:

I was'nt laughing, when Cutler went down.....

Its inevitable. Martz let him have it early this year and last year

Go Blue wrote:

I was'nt laughing, when Cutler went down.....

LBF knows Cutler always goes down...lol...

Jay BJ wrote:

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LBF knows Cutler always goes down...lol...

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