Good: Barry, his game plan, how fired up the D were and pretty much everyone on the D. Garry is a beast.

Bad: the offensive play calling, Rodgers ignoring open receivers, going away from the run, refusing to use Taylor, the call on the interception being overturned.

Ugly: Matt La Fleur proving to be unable to learn and grow and actually win a coaching battle in game or face up to how historically inept Drayton is all season. STs has never been close to this bad and it was hardly unpredictable. The fact that we are likely stuck with LaFleur for a while.

This one kind of writes itself. Staying more general now, may individualize a little more on game and lame.

Good: The Defense - major shoutout to Rashan Gary.
Bad: Offense. Kind of sharing this among playcalling, so-so line play, horrific TE play, and not Rodgers's very best. (Jonesy looked good, and Adams was good, if not great.)
Ugly: As I said, this one kind of writes itself. How do you get a chip shot FG blocked and a punt not only blocked but run back for a TD?! (For the first time, Amari looked pretty good, actually. Bojo actually had two very big punts, but, but, but...

Other: Deebo fumbled that!! Shocking to see Big Dog fumble...but not his fault that the O never really got in a good rhythm afterward. Josiah dropped an easy first down and while our line has held up all year, not so well today.

Good:

duh, the defense

Bad:

1a. Aaron Jones cutting in instead of out on that 75-yard pass. May have scored, would've at least got more yardage and saved a time out.

1b. putting Billy Turner at right tackle over Yosh Nijman, and not at right tackle where he belongs.

1c. The refs. That was a fumble. And that was intentional grounding.

Ugly:

Aaron Rodgers. Say what you want about special teams, an MVP quarterback puts more than 10 points on the board, and more than 58 yards in the second half. He had 2 drives in the end to win the game and failed both times. That simply was not championship quarterback play. He is Dan Marino with a ring.

Before this year started, I predicted a 13-4 regular season, with a classic choke job in the playoffs.

This was utterly predictable.

I know the Packers under Aaron Rodgers. FIFTY-EIGHT YARDS in the second half. Special teams maladies aside… this is the MVP of the league. And you got FIFTY-EIGHT YARDS AND THREE POINTS. Not good enough.

You deserved to lose. A fitting end to your career in Green Bay. I don't even really care that it's over. More relieved than anything. Go anyone but the Bucs. Congrats to the 49ers. You were the better team.

Thanks for the (regular season) memories, 12. Time to move on. I look forward to seeing you in Broncos Orange or Steelers Black next year, but more than that, I look forward to the draft compensation for you and Adams. And maybe Bakhtiari after next year.

Blow it up. I know the Packers. I expected this gag job. This is the TENTH such January loss since 92 that they should have won and very possibly had the best team in the NFL. (95,97,99,03,07,09,13,14,20,21)

The Good- Clark The Bad: MLF - The Ugly- Special Teams, Blocking everywhere, Drops. Everything that could go wrong, did.

Ugly: Rodgers will retire and we will get nothing.
Bad: losing a bunch if other players
Good: maybe we will get something for some if them

Tough time to be a Packers fan alas

Good:
No more weekly fryed nerves as the game gets closer wondering if luck will continue to hold.

Bad:
No more euphoria from the luck holding up.

Ugly:
The Achilles heel (special teams) that finally plunges the dagger and all fades to black.

The Wrap:
It was fun, until the luck simply ran dry.

IF, special teams does their job score is 13 - 3, Packers win!

Good - doesn't matter but you have to mention the D playing their hearts out.
Bad - doesn't matter
Ugly - ST coaching and every part of management that didn't fix it all year. If the team breaks apart next year which it probably will, MLF will be a .500 team coach and be gone a few years and deservedly so. That's what we have to look forward to. Thank you MLF for being too weak to fire the ST coach and thank you for not having your team ready to play 60 minutes for even a single game this year and thank you AR for playing poorly in what is probably your last game as a GB QB - it will make it easier to move on from you. Both of you let everyone down.

At least that's how I feel tonight. What a lousy way for it to end.

Good: Gary & defense. They came to play!.
Bad: Rodgers, MLF. They did not.
Ugly: Drayton

Perhaps now is not the time to fire everybody and declare the season to be a lost cause. Disappointing conclusion, yes, but, the bumpy ride was exhilarating. 13-4 is one hell of a good ride.

What Matt LaFleur managed to do with so many pieces falling to the wayside, and still remain competitive, will be examined for years to come. He is getting better as a coach. No, not perfect, but he is progressing.

What Joe Barry did was also worthy of note. He has given the Defense a personality and a direction. You could see the Defense buying in to what Joe was selling. Next year already looks better.

The problem all season has been with Special Teams. Every week it's another excuse, another miscue, another blocked kick. There was not really any bright spot for this unit, with one minor exception, David Moore - he may be the answer at Returner. We'll see. Major coaching and personnel changes need to be made. Tough cuts are coming.

This was a great season with a disappointing conclusion. Anything short of a Super Bowl is always disappointing. Still, Packers fans are lucky that our last 3 decades have produced some phenomenally entertaining football. Our path is stable and our future looks bright. #GoPackGo

Good: Defense.
Bad: Offense
Ugly: ST's

Extra ugly: When people who are brave look back at the all 22 and review that 3rd & 11 play.

3rd and 11, Rodgers drops back and heaves a deep shot to a double covered Davante Adams. With the safety shading over to the top of Adams' route, and the 49ers sending the rest of the house at Rodgers, that means there's one on ones elsewhere.

ESB has single coverage on the left perimeter. He's also got his man beat and is running over the top of the coverage- more than an arms length ahead of the corner. He's literally open for the deep touchdown.

Even worse: Roughly 10-15 yards short of Adams and ESB, it looks like **Aaron Jones runs a dig route out of the left hand slot and completely smokes his coverage, breaking wide open from left to right across the middle of the field. That's an easy first down.

**** EDIT*** Apparently, it was Lazard, not Jones, who was the receiver I was referring to. I thought I saw jersey #33, I guess it was 13.

Just move the sticks. Just move the effin sticks.

The Good: Rashan Gary, De'Vondre Campbell, Kenny Clark, Zadarius Smith, and the defensive unit as a whole for keeping the Niners' vaunted running attack under control for most of the game.

The Bad: Deguara for a big drop and Marcedes Lewis for the fumble.

The Ugly: Aaron Rodgers whose performance was pitiful in the second half. One can blame many of the Packers' previous playoffs losses on the defense which gave up an average of nearly 40 points per game and the man whose name must not be mentioned in the Seattle loss. But this time AR12 must take responsibility for his lacklustre, ineffective, and bizarre play in the second half. I re-watched the second half and noticed many open receivers that he ignored or failed to spot in his progressions. The horror, the horror...

Oh yes, the MORON who decided that our star running back and bad weather battering ram A. J. Dillon should be playing on kickoff special teams units. His loss was one of the factors in the Packers' loss.

And, of course, the woeful special teams which was the determining factor in the loss that cost Green Bay ten points. This is another lapse that can be attributed to MLF or Gutekunst for failing to fire Drayton mid-season rather than pray that he can change a losing pattern.

Affirmative action hire Maurice Drayton cost the Packers the season , Packers were afraid to fire him because of this , no other team would have kept him on.

With Rodgers gone, Packers fans will become accustomed, once again, to hoping for a winning season, and possibly a playoff spot, behind whatever collection of players and coaches MM and the front office cobble together. In other words, back to the ‘80s. Definitely less stress, and probably less excitement and anticipation, then the past 30+ years.

The Good - our ineptitude brought to full light for all to see and for our front office to deal with. Kind of like Cam on Ferris Beuller when the Ferrari ends up in the ravine, Murphy and Gute will have to respond. There is no hiding our issues.

The Bad - Mason Crosby deserved better if last night was his swan song.

The Real Ugly - can’t add much to what has been already posted. Great teams find ways to get it done, good teams settle for less, bad teams find anyone and/or anything to blame other than themselves.

For those of your AR haters, GB STs ranks 32 in the NFL, they constantly start with bad field position and give up great position to the opposing team every game! AR did not fumble the ball or throw an interception or drop a perfect pass over the middle that cost us a first down and possible FG, he didn’t have and punt blocked, and the refs made a horrible call that prevented us from getting that turnover that WAS a fumble. Do you people even realize what you are saying?? This I’m on Howdy Doody and BG, and MLF and Drayton period.

Need a new category: Fugly. That goes to Maurice Drayton. To put a cherry on top of the special teams ineptitude this season, on the last play of the season they could only manage to get ten men on the field for the Niners’ FG attempt. Would they have blocked it with 11? Doubtful. But it perfectly encapsulates what an utter, utter failure the Drayton tenure has been on special teams. And ultimately it falls on MLF for not getting this corrected one way or another all season.

Adding to the good, don’t we pick 4 spots earlier? Too bad we didn’t lose in the wild card round. Could have been even four spots earlier.

Good- defense
Bad- Another gut punch
Ugly- rebuild, gonna be no fun but has to happen.

Didn’t see the game because of being at a required event….thought there was no way the Packers would lose. Read how they lost and thought…yep makes all the sense in the world.
Watched the Bengal’s QB in the first half get killed by the Titans rush, but he didn’t flinch and kept his eye on hitting his receivers. Thought he’s doing something that Rodgers doesn’t…stays focus and figures a way to win.
Sorry this team went out like they did.

Good: Coaches and Mgmt must see now that things aren't great and they need fixin starting with ST.
Bad: Vikes Lions and even the bears will get better as we shuttle some good players due to lack of money.
UglY: Years ahead of losing seasons as Rodgers bids a found fairwell.
Adios Amigos

Three strikes and your out ! Time to end this futility and move on. Of course we wont come near 13 win season and a division title again for a very long time, as I predict another 70's stretch of mediocrity. You cant win with Aaron Rodgers and all the Veteran Free agents they had when will you ever do again? Call me a poor sport or a bad fan but there is no point in watching this team next year, I have absolutely no confidence in them at all. Time to find something else to do with my Sunday afternoons and I would recommend that to others too. Maybe in ten years or so they will be able to build another team but what they have now was there last shot for a very long time and it couldn't have ended any more disappointing then it did. Aaron Rodgers was nothing more then a tease and his legacy for the back end of his career is he couldn't win the big games when they needed. La Fleurs creative game plans all but disappear in the playoffs as well. Sorry for all the negativity I am just so terribly disappointed in how the Rodgers era ended and don't see another chance for a SB for quite some time.

I think we should blame the bottom of the roster for not being perfect on special teams instead of the offensive guys at the top of the roster for not doing squat.

I had a feeling this is how the Rodgers era would end. : Rodgers would be ineffective and we’d blame special teams. This is the worst offensive showing by the Packers in a playoff game at Lambeau since the stadium was built.

Good:
* Refs. (except for the fumble/no fumble calls - see 'ugly' #1 below), the officiating did not seem to sway the game. Hallelujah - I don't have to grind my teeth all off season about a suspect bad pass interference call being made or a hold being missed on a SF touchdown pass, etc. No penalties on kick returns? WFT - was I actually watching an NFL game? Aren't penalty calls required on kick returns?

* Gary and Preston. They both held the edge (greatly reducing potency of SF's run game) and got pressure on Jimmy G. Kenny Clark also had a great game. At minimum, 2 of those 3 will be back next year.

* GB's punting. Hard ball, bad conditions. Nonetheless there were some boomers and field position did not change b/c of GB's punts.

* In San Francisco's three trips to the red zone, the team only came out of the game with three points.

* Losing to SF. I do not (yet) harbor the same hatred of the 9ers that I do of Dallas, MN, Seattle and now the Brady-led Bucs. I disdained Harbaugh when he coached the team. But, IF IF GB had to lose, I wish the 9ers well. I like Bosa, Armstead and a tough defense. If Deebo played for us, wow...that'd be cool. They're not a cocky bunch of az*es IMHO...as such, at least I'm not pissed off about losing to a team I loathe.

Bad:
* Weather. I'll have to look again, but as conditions deteriorated in the 2nd half, neither team could do much on offense. In the first half, GB had the nice opening drive, was moving the ball until Lewis 'fumble' and had the long pass to Jones...so they were moving the ball 'somewhat' against a tough SF defense. SF mostly did nothing on offense all night. If the weather was better the entire game, I think GB's offense does more...but ALSO that Deebo and Mitchell do a lot more on offense. Remember in the 'old days' when low scoring games in nasty weather were determined by a few plays? This was one of those games. Unfortunately...

* Special team disasters. Yes. Plain and simple they directly cost us the game. 10 points in a game decided by 3 points. Plus, I'd add '2 points' in giving SF much better field possession after kickoffs than GB enjoyed.

* Tight end play. Was there any? I hope we get a healthy Tonyan back next year. I don't want to say we've now recently wasted two 3rd rounders on TEs that have done little but...

* SF's last drive. Why can SF complete these quick passes over the middle and move the chains but GB both can't do same on offense - and- stop SF on defense? As has happened in other games, GB's defense DID allow the opposing team to move down the field when the game was on the line. There were no 4th down pickups on this drive -- it was all on 3 downs or less...march down, kick winning field goal.

Ugly:
* 13 ways of looking at a fumble. I need to research & review. I thought a pass was completed and a fumble happened if a player, on securing the ball, made a 'football move'. If so, and the ball comes loose, then it's a fumble. Unless I've been sleeping all season (possible), I've never heard the 'player has to take 3 steps' explanation given by the 'sage in the sky' explanation. I record and delay watch the games. Immediately after the ruling that Deebo (?) play was not a catch fumble (b/c 3 steps were not taken), I rewound to Lewis' fumble. In that play I did not see 'the player taking 3 steps' after the catch...so Lewis' play should then also not be a fumble? WTF! I'll need to look more closely - and know others will micro-analyze these 2 plays....so we'll get to the truth.

* Dillon injury. This likely cost us the game. He WAS the basher in the first half getting us tough yardage and keeping the offense somewhat balanced. When gone, the consistency (or confidence in) of the running game disappeared. Jones did alright running. There seemed to be no confidence in RB3 - maybe that he couldn't pick up pass play blocks, etc. GB became much more 1-dimensional on offense w/o Dillon and it cost us.

Not sure about:
* AR's performance. Maybe he missed some open receivers. Could he see them or was he under too much SF DL pressure? It 'felt' to me that AR was worth 10 more points than Jimmy G was to his team. That should be enough to win a game. It was just offset by s***t for special teams.

* MLF being outcoached. Shanahan did not employ his typical amount of mis-direction/jet sweep type plays in this game (maybe due to field conditions/fear of cold weather ball handling/fumbles). If indeed he was more conservative in play calling, was same true for MLF and for the same reasons?

Good: Won't need to cringe anymore when ARod says something on a Podcast.
Bad: The aura of Lambeau in January - in the snow no less - has completely lost all relevance.
Ugly: Another year wasted, SB hopes dashed and seemingly out of reach for a few more years.

Good: Won't need to cringe anymore when ARod says something on a Podcast.
Bad: The aura of Lambeau in January - in the snow no less - has completely lost all relevance.
Ugly: Another year wasted, SB hopes dashed and seemingly out of reach for a few more years.

Good - packers in regular season
Bad - Once again the 49ers ruin the season
Ugly - losing in the snow at home

Used to be IF Packers ever made post season and played at home- automatic win. Now they are 2-4 over last 6 home playoff games and the Magic of Lambeau is gone. This hurts the most- the identity of Wisconsin football is now that of overrated choke artists tarnishing the legacy of a charter NFL team. The fans and the team deserve better

Late to the table so not sure what I can add that is different, but will try not to be a broken record but probably will.
The Good: Fans did their part. Joe Barry and the over all defense. Gary, Clark and the gang did their best.
Rodgers admitting in his presser that he didn't play well, missed some throws, and should have
hit some " CHECK DOWNS" .
The Bad: Play calling and decisions before and during the game. Why have Billy Turner who is coming off an
Injury, and not playing LT all year, play there in the biggest game of the year. Why no Yosh is a
head-scratcher. No in came adjustments. No creative play calling. No slants, misdirections, EMPTY
BACKFIELD AGAINST THAT DEFENSE, the long pass plays, and the final heave downfield- great
percentage play was almost the what the....... exclamation point for the game.
The Ugly: Of course as duly noted already the ST's that we all predicted would cost us a game at some point.
Growing tired of coaches taking the blame, not putting players in the right position, is a broken
record that keeps on spinning. Rodgers body language and seemingly apathy outside of the first series
that is. At least with Farve with all his mistakes and short-comings in big games, his heart and drive to
win were never questioned.

There needs to be house cleaning in GB. Start with Murf, the knucklehead who brought Gute & Le Fleur into Tinseltown and then his two devotees. Gute is way over his head and La Fleur is not the boy wonder coach he's been put up to be. Look at the record,
I don't mean numbers. Look at who they beat and who they lost to in the last 3 years and by what score. They can't ever put anyone away. They are a good team, just not even near great. They get 6 automatic wins from the NFC N. Well not this year. They let the Vikes beat them at home. .

A lot of sadness, a lot of unhappiness.

Face it. These were two good teams playing in less than optimal conditions. The Packers offense was better than the 9rs. The Packers defense was better. The GB Special Teams were so much worse than the 9ers in just about every phase, it was the problem. Hard imagine being that inept. ST have been an issue for years for GB. Remember the onside kick by Seattle? ST.
wayne

Good: Packers defense. Contrary to many of the comments on here, the future is bright for that group. They will likely lose a few big names but Stokes, Alexander, Clark, and Gary will be a solid group to build around.

Bad: Aaron Rodgers’s inability to adjust his game against elite defenses. Passing up underneath routes for deep balls has worked well for him throughout his career, against mediocre to bad defenses. It has plagued him against elite defenses that can get to him before his receivers can adjust.

Ugly: You already know. Blame Mo, he deserves it. But don’t forget, he is not in charge of personnel. He didn’t ask for Wirtel but he did fail to protect him from getting demolished on that blocked punt.

I know it hurts Packer fans. We’ve all said some things in the last 24 hours that we will regret when the sting of this wears off. Just remember the adversity this team went through to get where they were. If we’re honest about that, they actually overachieved. The core group of coaches did an incredible job and this is one of the best football organizations in the league. They will have this team ready to play again next year. Bank it. GPG Forever!! 🧀

Rodgers choked again.
You may not like my comment but
Rodgers can’t win a close game in the playoffs.
Trade him, get what you can for him, we won’t win another SB with Rodgers at qb anyway.