The 49ers lost to the Packers by 28 points on Sunday, the franchise’s largest margin of defeat in 74 meetings with Green Bay. Said linebacker Fred Warner: « This is probably one of the worst ones I’ve been a part of. »
— Moments after suffering the franchise’s worst loss to the Green Bay Packers in the history of the series — and the third-largest defeat of any kind since he became head coach in 2017 — the San Francisco 49ers’ Kyle Shanahan was asked to name the most disappointing part of his team’s performance.
Shanahan couldn’t limit himself to just one area and instead spent roughly the next 40 seconds laying out all the ways the Niners failed in Sunday’s 38-10 defeat to the Packers, summing it up best with his opening words.
« The whole game was [disappointing] », Shanahan said. « When you have those penalties, we didn’t stop the run like we did, and we had those three turnovers in the second half. That’s how you get embarrassed. »
Embarrassed was the word of the day in the San Francisco locker room after a beatdown that left them 5-6 and on a two-game losing streak heading into a holiday week with a trip to Buffalo to face the surging Bills next Sunday night.
The loss at Lambeau Field was the franchise’s largest margin of defeat in 74 meetings with the Packers, surpassing a 27-point loss in 1960. The 49ers hadn’t lost to Green Bay by more than 20 since a 21-point defeat in 1997.
What’s more, it was the third-biggest margin of defeat for the Niners since Shanahan took over and their biggest regular-season loss since a 29-point defeat to the Los Angeles Rams in 2018. It also was the team’s worst road loss with Shanahan at the helm.
« This is probably one of the worst ones I’ve been a part of », 49ers linebacker Fred Warner said. « It is embarrassing. You’ve got to take it on the chin, take it like a man, and move on. »
Moving on this week might be particularly difficult given all of the issues that plagued the Niners.
