[From The Deer Stand]

Packers played the final defensive series without six of their starters. 15 players on injured reserve. A healthy Packers team would have whollopped the 49ers today. Now we’ll have to wait until next week for that to happen.

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Packers played the final defensive series without six of their starters. 15 players on injured reserve. A healthy Packers team would have whollopped the 49ers today.

Ah, ifs and buts. OK, let me try - if the Packers had been healthy but their offensive tackle Bakhtiari had not been allowed to get away with his game-long offensive holding on Aldon Smith, the 49ers would have still won. The 49ers have beaten the Packers four straight now, two in SF and two at Lambeau. That's no fluke - the 49ers are flat out better, whether the Packers have Clay Matthews and Sam Shields on the field or not. That'll be the case until the Packers finally figure out how to defend Kaepernick, who probably wishes he could play Green Bay every week.

Now we’ll have to wait until next week for that to happen.

Or maybe longer. The 49ers lost to Carolina by one point in a game they played flat, bored football. There's nothing at all guaranteed about Carolina beating the 49ers, as there seems to be with the 49ers beating Green Bay.