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It's nuts that an 8-7-1 team gets a home playoff game against a 12-4 team. But if the 49ers lose this one, the weather will be no excuse. It'll be because they weren't able to get pressure on Rodgers and he was given time to exploit their limping secondary. The 49ers defense is vulnerable - they don't substitute much and they wear down late in the season. They gave up some huge numbers in December and January last year (and made Joe Flacco rich). And they've been getting shredded the last few weeks, following last year's pattern.

But the cold will punish both teams equally, it's not like the Packers field a team of Eskimos - the players on both teams are mostly from Texas or California. And there's precedent for a 49ers win - while it happened before most of the current players were born, the last time the 49ers ventured into the Midwest in blistering cold for a playoff game they demolished Ditka's Bears 28-3 en route to their 3rd Super Bowl win.

It's nuts that an 8-7-1 team gets a home playoff game against a 12-4 team.

Then the 12-4 team should have won its division. And I'll be pulling hard for the Niners.