The devastating loss on Sunday is still very much fresh in the minds of Dallas Cowboys supporters, and Kyle Shanahan is making matters worse.
It turns out that the coach of the San Francisco 49ers began preparing for the Green Bay Packers earlier than expected, having not waited until the conclusion of the Wild Card game. Midway through the second quarter of Green Bay’s rout of the Dallas Cowboys, Shanahan disclosed angrily that he and his staff started concentrating on the Packers matchup.
#49ers HC Kyle Shanahan said they already started preparing for the #Packers during the second quarter of Sunday's game vs. Dallas. 💀pic.twitter.com/MPNX7ko0J8
— Ari Meirov (@MySportsUpdate) January 16, 2024
“We were already in here. We were doing it that day,” Shanahan said when asked about his team’s preparation timeline for the NFC divisional round matchup. “… Started really focusing on [the Packers] halfway through the second quarter.”
The 49ers’ opponent would have been up in the air going into Sunday night if the Cowboys had managed to win that game. The 49ers are overwhelming 9.5-point favorites at DraftKings Sportsbook going into the weekend, but Green Bay just demonstrated how meaningless that is by dominating a club that hadn’t dropped a home game all season in AT&T Stadium.
Against the second-seeded Cowboys, Jordan Love passed for 272 yards and three touchdowns, while Aaron Jones ran for 118 yards and three more scores as the Packers dominated from the off.
San Francisco is ready for a lengthy postseason run, but they can’t afford to ignore a Packers team that is competing for a championship.
