Two scores? Don't think so. Too much ale perhaps?

The overrated 9’r D was on their heels most of the game. The Packer D was on their heels the last four minutes.
The NFL had better develop a training program for spotting the ball.
How did Purdy(boy) find his way into the MVP conversation; check downs and dropped INT’s describe his day.
I’m sick of the 9’rs and their coaches and organization—especially their GM. He’s a smug….
We nearly pulled it off folks—any self respecting 9’r fan realizes they dodged a bullet.
Go Packers!!!

THROWING THE FLAG - Comon Aaron, you can NOT pin a "BAD" on Darnell Savage for dropping a possible INT in Q1. If you do you better include Jorden Love for throwing the back breaking interception that was thrown so short there were 2 defenders in between our receiver and the line of scrimmage and the guy that picked it was the furthest from the receiver and closest to the line of scrimmage. There were plenty of single bad plays Aaron, how about the 9 year old style bump attempt tackle that nudged McCafrey as he waltzed in for a touchdown, it wa like hitting a pot hole on I-43..... a little bump but hardly missed stride. Pretty bad Aaron, and there is plenty more. Hanging it on Savage is pretty short sighted.

I'm just saying......

The good… I guess the season, because there is nothing good about winning for 59 minutes and finally losing.
The bad… Savage dropping an int, missing a tackle on McCaffrey’s 39 yard TD, and getting lost on Kittle’s TD. Carrington Valentine, Carlson, Gary, and a few of MLFs decisions were bad also.
The ugly… the results of a packers blitz package. Overall the blitzes were resulting in positive yardage for SF.
As long as this team sheds Barry, Savage, Bahktiari, Stokes, Campbell , Smith and Carlson , it’s all good.

The good: Kenny Clark& Aaron Jones
The bad:losing Zack Tom
The Ugly:Homer Refs

Ugly goes to MLF/Gute for not doing something about Carlson. Just like they didn't do anything about Mo a couple years ago.
How can you blame Carlson for performing just as he has all year?
Same basically goes for Joe Barry too.

I'm a bit surprised I got many thumbs down for calling them out on this on the Gut Reactions thread.

I've been saying it for years. MLF is the problem. He is certainly not the worst coach in the NFL and it seems he has done wonders in the last half of the season. But he is not going to get us to a SB by not making hard decisions.

There was No ugly on this team.
Don’t let Your expectations, shape and bend your reality.
These guys Fought hard and didn't tank.
They made the playoffs thanks to good coaching.
And a Qb who had time to throw.
The Green Bay Packers became a team again.
And they gave us everything they had.

The Good has to be the offensive line, they played outstanding football all season keeping Love clean in the pocket.
The Bad has to be Anders Carlson, I know he's a rookie but we knew he would lose us a game so why didn't we bring Crosby back and let this kid learn for a season?
The Ugly has to be losing, ,it sucks period, I really had high hopes for this team after the Cowboys game only to be let down by a ST mistake once again!

while everyone is talking about love's terrible last throw i have not heard much about his decision not to tuck it and run. jones was set to block the nearest pursuer and there was a lot of green grass ahead. maybe a 20 yard gain? or jones could have released and gotten the same yardage with a little flick of a pass. just can't believe love didn't see all the room he had to take off downfield.

Bad play calling by MLF in the red zone in the first half ! What a fuck up not converting that third and one handing off to Jones when he is in the fucking shotgun! LA Pussy gets schooled again by his buddy! Carlson looks like a scared rabbit every time he goes out there! BRUTAL!!!!!!

The good? We made it to the second round! Blew out the two seed in their house and took the one seed to the wire in their house, oh yeah, and without Aaron Rodgers, who was no doubt sitting in the dark on his couch in NY doing peyote, smoking banana peels, or sniffing Elmers glue trying to remember what a playoff win was; Heads up to Kenny Clarke, AJ, and the old man, Preston Smith for busting his ass from gun to gun. Jordan love deserves a nod too, for three quarters, he did a good job until the rookie mistakes started. The bad? The kicking game. Not to beat a dead horse, but the kicking has been inconsistent all year long. This time, it burned our asses. Two dropped picks. Two poor throws under pressure. Tackling? what tackling? Better tackling would have won this game. The ugly? I cant really find any ugly This young team is like a tree thats been planted-it will be pruned in the off season and will bear fruit next year!! GOPACKGO!

Savage Sucks!

Game ball to Shanahan. Again he out coached the Packer coach. First he tried to explore weaknesses by not running the best back in the league but passing like a maniac to see what the pack did had to offer.
He knew he had a run game but wanted to see if he had a pass game first.
When that didnt work so well he shifted, key words shifted geats and ran McCaffee all over the place.
He did everything he could to win, not to not lose.
That has been my gripe since the Rodgers days, LeFleur coaches more to not lose to not make mistakes rather then to trying to win and forcing the issues.

This game was ideal for the Packers to take advantage of a weak QB who couldn't hit a barn with a tractor and they failed to do so. You get the worst kicker in college you deserve him. When it was all done, the niners in the end played like the niners and the packers played like the 5-6 packers again.

The Packers lost because of the defensive coordinator. That last drive. How many third and long. Didn't generate enough pressure.
You win by being aggressive. Lafleur is, but Barry is not.

The Super Bowl victory. Did Rodgers win it. No. Pittsburgh had a chance to win the game in the last two minutes. The defense stuffed them to put the game away.

Until LaFleur realizes this, we won't make it to the Super Bowl.

They would have been up by seven… not two scores… there’s that…

Good .. Getting this far into the playoffs when we all thought this was the year to check out if Love was our QB or not
Bad. MLF....I just think he questions himself too much .... what happened in the Red zone?
Is it because we didn't have Dillon or why didn't we kick a field goal in the 1st quarter...is it because he kept Carlson all throughout the season?
Ugly ... Love's last throw ... We still had time to even get a field goal to tie the game. Was it coaching or inexperience from Love. And the last ugly is Barry

It's still fun to watch the Packer's play with the CheeseheadTV crowd. It makes watching the Packers even more enjoyable whether we win or lose

Good, the future.
Bad, young players making mistakes.
Ugly, losing a game that should have been won.

The Good:
GB showed it can play at a high level against a top tier team - despite coming up a bit short.
The O-line seems to be gelling together; this gives us at least a good starting foundation to shore up next season. What the heck: Wheelen - he fielded a really bad bouncing snap for proper placement on a made field goal. Wilson's hustle play in recovering Nixon's KR fumble 'on the fly'.

The Bad:
Losing Deebo Samuel early on, SF had to at least somewhat revamp their game plan on the fly. It also probably took a little life out of SF's offensive players. This is 'bad' b/c it will artificially make Joe Barry look better yesterday than he should get credit for and give more reason for MLF to keep Barry around ('Barry's D held a high-powered team SF mostly in check. Maybe I'll keep him around').

It ended up not mattering - but it certainly could have. At the end of the game when MLF was calling time outs, why the heck is it better to let the clock run down to 2:00 warning, have SF run a play, then call a TO at around 1:50...instead of calling a TO with 2:12, SF runs a play to the 2:00 warning? Isn't it better to have 2:00 on the clock than 1:50 after SF runs the same number of plays when you're trying to save time?

Both Good and Bad: Love's last throw of the season. Bad for all the obvious reasons. Good in that it likely - better! - stick in his craw all off-season and discipline him more in the future to not do 'stupid, stupid' stuff. Throwing off platform is all fine but that's different than making extremely poor clock/game management decisions on the fly (like Olsen said 'it's not 4th down - just throw it away - it was first and 10 and you have 2 time outs!)

Ugly: Carlson. Someone elsewhere said 'maybe that's why you don't draft kickers'. I think that's a great point -- in that when you draft one, you're completely susceptible to 'sunk cost' and needing to rationalize ad nauseam why he should be kept over another kicker.

We were playing with house money. This is Love's first year and he will punish himself enough for that last play without the fanbase crucifying him. Don't worry, he'll never do it again...geez, we weren't even supposed to be there.

Love learned a very tough lesson about understanding the situation you are in, in the moment.

His adrenaline told him it was fight or flight; that it was absolutely now or never, that in this moment it was win it all or go home.. when in truth, he had 3 more downs and 3 time outs in which he needed to take a singular step of moving the chains, one foot in front of the other as you take steps toward the goal.

He fell victim to the lure of the "hero ball" moment, when the situation called for restraint and actually provided time and space to 'live to see another down.'' It was a youthful over reach that cost the team dearly, but it is one I truly believe he will learn from.

Lots of factors contributed to this heartbreaking loss. We're all talking about Anders' miss, lost opportunities on interceptions, etc, and they are all valid examples that had they unfolded differently, we could have seen an outcome more representative of the play on the field- the Packers outplayed the 9ers and should have won this game.

Two things I have NOT seen discussed much- the decision to go for it on 4th & 1 at the 14 yard line with a 3-0 lead when on the road vs. the 1 seed in a playoff game as opposed to taking a FG attempt; and the shift away from running Aaron Jones between the tackles in the second half of the game.

Much like the team as a whole learned the gravity and importance of seizing every opportunity in the playoffs, and the lesson Jordan love learned about understanding with clarity the reality of the situation as opposed to allowing yourself to fall prey to the pressure and false sense of "now or never" in the big moment- I feel that Matt LaFleur needs to walk away from this game with a lesson learned about having the patience and faith in your teams' talent to let the game come to you and embrace the close grind, the long game.. my impression is that MLF got impatient and was somewhat pushing to create the 2-possession lead. I understand the desire, but I also feel this game was played on razor-thin margins and perhaps taking what you are given and trusting your team will continue to handle their business would have been a better policy in some situations yesterday.

Overall, impressed and proud of this team to walk into San Francisco's house as a 7 seed and give the #1 seed all it could handle. This insanely young team- in a rebuild season- under leadership of a 1st year starter- did not get outplayed by arguably the best team in the league. The Packers controlled the outcome and they fell just short. The WILL learn from the experience. I could have never imagined this team would find itself where it landed to conclude the 2023 season. Just amazing.

I feel like we have our Franchise QB and he's so much further along in his development than anyone could have ever dreamed. We have an amazingly talented set of skill position players for the foreseeable future. The OL went from chaos to solidified and seems a strength again. There will be questions at RB and a number of moves on the defensive side of the ball that will warrant scrutiny, but I also believe Gutekunst has shown that when left to do his job unhindered by outside constraints, he is capable of handling the rigors of building an NFL roster that can compete. MLF, while not perfect, has proven his worth over the last 10 weeks and is also learning and growing into the role much like his young QB. MLF has clearly demonstrated that this teams' success over his tenure was not simply a byproduct of his HoF QB running the show; he's not a puppet coach- in fact, he may have been hindered in the past. He's his own man and this is his team.

Looking forward to a motivated off season and what 2024 will bring.

Go Pack Go.

When I think about how they looked at midseason compared to how they look now, the arrow is sharply pointed UP.
At least SOME cap relief and 5 picks in the first 3 rounds? I’ll take it!

Good: the 2023 season , despite the ending. The team is on the upswing.

Bad: Losing in the playoffs to the same damn team all the time.

Ugly: Fans scapegoating various players and/or coaches and staff.