The Green Bay Packers became the first seventh seed ever to win a playoff game in NFL history. So what are the chances that they become the first seventh seed to defeat a no. 1 seed as well? While others would say that it’s impossible, Aaron Jones would say otherwise.
Jones expressed his confidence that the Packers have what it takes to win when they play the San Francisco 49ers in the divisional round, emphasizing after their Wild Card victory over the Cowboys that they have the “weapons” to make their dream a reality.
It’s not hard to see where Aaron Jones’ confidence is coming from. After all, he was one of the main stars–alongside Jordan Love–in the Green Bay Packers’ 48-32 demolition of the Dallas Cowboys during their playoff showdown.
The 49ers’ small but budding rivalry with the Philadelphia Eagles won’t have another chapter written in the 2024 NFL playoffs after Jalen Hurts and Co. dropped their wild-card game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday night.
While preparing the 49ers for battle on the gridiron, linebackers coach Johnny Holland has waged a different fight off the field for the past four-plus years.
The 58-year-old was diagnosed with an incurable form of cancer, multiple myeloma, before San Francisco’s 2019 NFL season. But one Super Bowl and two NFC Championship Game appearances later, Holland still is coaching a star-studded linebacker group prepared to make its fourth playoff appearance in five campaigns this Saturday at Levi’s Stadium.
Earlier this season, NBC Sports’ Peter King accompanied Holland to one of his monthly chemo treatments before the 49ers’ Week 13 matchup against the Philadelphia Eagles, where the linebackers coach shared how he remains positive in the face of such a horrible disease. The sportswriter shared the story in his “Football Morning in America” column on Monday.
“I used to say, ‘Man, I’m just blessed to have this day.’ But now it’s like, okay, for real, I’m blessed to have another day,” Holland told King on their drive to the UCSF Medical Center in San Francisco. “When
