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REPORT: The 49ers Will Play the Packers Week 12

Last season, the 49ers and Packers faced each other in the playoffs on a rainy evening in Santa Clara, and Brock Purdy didn't play well.
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January 20, 2024; Santa Clara, CA, USA; Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love (10) is pushed out
January 20, 2024; Santa Clara, CA, USA; Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love (10) is pushed out | Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports

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At least it won't be December or January.

The 49ers' schedule has been getting leaked game by game, and they reportedly will face the Green Bay Packers on the road in Week 12 -- that's Nov. 24 at 1:25 Pacific Time. That game most likely will be cold, but it might not rain or snow, which would be great news for the 49ers and Brock Purdy in particular.

Last season, the 49ers and Packers faced each other in the playoffs on a rainy evening in Santa Clara, and Purdy didn't play well. He completed an uncharacteristically-low 59 percent of his throws and the 49ers won by just three points despite coming into the game as big-time favorites. In fact, they trailed the Packers for most of the game until Jordan Love melted down late.

Now these teams will have to face each other in Green Bay, which is an advantage for the Packers. In addition, the Packers were one of the youngest teams in the NFL last season, so they should be better this season. They recently signed running back Josh Jacobs, who's outstanding. Two years ago when he played for the Raiders and the 49ers faced him, Nick Bosa called him the best running back in the NFL, and that was after the 49ers had traded for Christian McCaffrey. So the Packers will be a tough opponent for the 49ers, whose core is getting old.

After this game, the 49ers will have to travel to Buffalo to face the Bills in another game that could be quite cold. It will be interesting to see if the 49ers stay on the midwest between games to save themselves a trip.

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Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.

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