Christian McCaffrey and San Francisco 49ers fall to Philadelphia Eagles in NFC Championship

With a visit to the Tremendous Bowl on the road and the San Francisco 49ers seeming like a crew of future discovering success “Mr. Irrelevant” at quarterback, their season didn’t have the magical ending that the 49er trustworthy had been hoping for. 

After falling behind because of an Eagles rating and a few controversial officiating on the primary drive of the sport, the 49ers noticed their younger star quarterback Brock Purdy go down with an proper elbow harm that stored him out for the rest of the half, and per a report after the sport by ESPN left him unable to throw past 10 yards. In stepped the fourth quarterback of the yr for San Francisco, journeyman Josh Johnson. 

Whereas it wasn’t probably the most clean transition for Johnson who led the 49ers to 2 punts on his first two drives within the sport, San Francisco did find yourself tying the sport at seven within the second quarter on a monster run from Christian McCaffrey. 

The offense was stagnant after that drive nonetheless, and the 49ers would ultimately go down two scores earlier than Jonson would depart the sport early within the third quarter with confusion. This was primarily the start of the top for San Francisco, who appeared to flirt with the concept of placing McCaffrey at quarterback however opted to place within the injured Purdy, who threw simply two extra makes an attempt. Purdy completed 4-of-4 for 23 yards with a median of 1.5 air yards per try, which marked the bottom common by a beginning quarterback in a playoff sport for the reason that stat was first tracked in 2006.

The Eagles would go on to tug away and win 31-7 in the end ending what had the makings of a magical run for the 49ers.