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The 49ers are 2.5-Point Favorites to Beat the Packers in Week 12

This will be the Packers' Super Bowl. They'll want to make a big statement by beating the 49ers.
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January 20, 2024; Santa Clara, CA, USA; Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love (10) during the
January 20, 2024; Santa Clara, CA, USA; Green Bay Packers quarterback Jordan Love (10) during the | Kyle Terada-USA TODAY Sports

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The Packers were one of the hottest teams in the NFL when the 49ers eliminated them from the playoffs last season.

The Packers had won 7 of its previous 9 games. Then they traveled to Santa Clara to play in the rain against the 49ers, who had an extra week to prepare and lost by just 3 points. And Green Bay led for most of the game. They probably would have won if their quarterback, Jordan Love, hadn't melted down in the fourth quarter.

Now the 49ers and Packers will have a rematch in Green Bay during Week 12, and the 49ers currently are 2.5-point favorites. Which is a bit surprising, considering homefield advantage is worth three points and the Packers lost by just three in Santa Clara.

Now the Packers are better. They're one of the youngest teams in the NFL, so their core players all should be improved. Plus they signed running back Josh Jacobs this offseason, who's a significant upgrade over their previous running back, Aaron Jones.

Finally, this game should be extremely cold. It might even rain or snow. And precipitation doesn't favor the 49ers, because Brock Purdy struggles to throw a wet football. We saw that multiple times last season. And head coach Kyle Shanahan refuses to let his players practice with a wet football during the week before a rainy game. So Purdy has to pray the sky is clear for this game.

This will be the Packers' Super Bowl. They'll want to make a big statement by beating the 49ers. I wouldn't pick the 49ers to win this one.

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Grant Cohn
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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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