As I said after the Bills game, if you let a bad team hang around in the first half, you had better blow them out in the third quarter, and that's pretty much what happened again.
I'm not concerned about the slow start, but it was annoying at the time. Maybe it was just a case of the Packers playing down to the level of their shitty uniforms with the turd-like helmets. It was not a good sign when our new millionaire DB, Tramon Williams, got burned deep for maybe the first time this season on the third play of the game.
The offense had a good first drive before Aaron Rodgers weirdly self-destructed in the red zone, overthrowing a wide open Donald Driver in the end zone, then committing an intentional grounding penalty on the next play. Maybe Rodgers had to get used to the wind. James Jones got open deep twice and Rodgers underthrew him one time and overthrew him the next time.
The defense gave up several big plays in the first half--very uncharacteristic of them. They seemed to forget that it is perhaps a good idea to cover Vernon Davis. But they shut down the running game, and Troy Smith was not going to beat us through the air, so I was never too worried.
Thankfully, the discrepancy in talent between the two teams was too big for the 49ers to overcome, and the Packers won it going away. That long pass that Aaron threw to Greg Jennings in the third quarter was spectacular. It must've traveled about 60 yards in the air, and it was a perfect strike.