Here we are, once again meeting Philly in the playoffs. Last time of course saw the mercurial rise and devastating crash of Brock Purdy in his rookie season as he came from running the scout team to leading the 49ers into the NFC Championship game.
That ended badly of course as Purdy didn’t get through his second possession. Now? Well, it’s all about the defense. The Eagles defense is about as far away from the Seahawks defense as Seattle is from Philly. They don’t defend the run particularly well, but they don’t allow a lot of points. And with Trent Williams back, the hope is CMC can break off some nice chunk yard runs.
Ricky Pearsall is another matter. He’s a game-time decision. What diff he would have made last week is hard to guess as Purdy had about 0.75 seconds to get his passes off. Why Shanny didn’t adjust to the relentless rush by running slants and quick passes baffles me no end. And all y’all screming about getting 2 TE sets in there is also a valid beef. Then again, how many times can I rail against the soft zone on 3rd down?
Hard to be confident in this game. At least for me. Despite the trials and tribulations overcome this season with all the (once again) injuries and BA turmoil, unexpected wins and crushing losses, I just don’t think we can get over the hump. Then again, this team has zigged a lot this year when I thought they would zag. As they say, one game at a time.
Maybe leave this one up to the football gods. Shanahan certainly doesn’t have the greatest record vs Vic (remember me?) Fangio.
San Francisco 49ers Forever 
80s videos are just amazing things to behold.
I didn’t appreciate a lot of the 80’s and 90’s music at the time but I do so now
Up to Shanahan to get enough out of the offense to make up for whatever happens on other side. Be great to get running game going, set up play action, use weapons you have, keep D off the field et al Special teams have been mostly boon this season, be great to have edge there as well.
Make one play at a time.
You’ve turned me on to a lot of cool 50’s, 60’s stuff.
Fare Thee Well, Bobby . . .
Yeah, sad news indeed.
I love the playoffs, great games so far and 2 lower seeds went through, let’s make that 3.
Niners 24-21
2023 49ers went 12-5 and went to the SB, well here they are at 12-5 again!
Pearsall not playing is getting old, especially in an elimination game.
I dont know for sure but indications are that the team feels he’s being ultra conservative with the knee.
If it doesn’t go well today Pearsall will be the donkey.
Pearsall is are new Jalyn Hurd, well he has played some unlike Hurd who never played an NFL game so Glass not total bust yet..
Everyonbe saying run 2 RB/2TE sets.
Shanny needs to show somw different looks.
Agreed
No Ricky.
If Kyle didn’t watch the Seattle game over and over to figure out what to do, then the Niners are not going very far. I heard on the radio KNBR Purdy has never won a road playoff game, time to exorcise that demon 😈
The only one he lost was the Philly game he got hurt in.
Wow!!!!
Play fucking ACTION!!!!
Yeah that’s the way to shut up the Philly thug base!Right down the field with Mrs.Robinson leading the way!! 1st RD to Shanny over Fangio!!!7-0
Purdy throwing across his body. WOW!
That was an unbelievably difficult TD pass to complete.
2 rushing yards, 74 air yards, masterful play calling.
Demo again, WTF.
Brown missed him
ST may decide this.
And turnovers
Demo switched sides of the field
Saleh with the aggresive D
Slants goddamnit
If we can’t run we are in trouble.
Robinson needs his touches, more productive than CMC.
WE can’t stop a fucking thing and we can’t pass block for shit.
I swear to fucking God how many times can Saleh give up a 3rd and 15.
I mean playing it soft has worked so fucking well.
Damm can you please BLITZ Saleh? 3rd and 14 the usual 4 man rush they pickup almost the whole thing filled by the Push Shit and their moving again!!!
That was cool. Nope. Changed our minds. No penalty.
Saleh can hit the fucking road. So disappointed in his schemes on 3rd down.
EVERYTHING is to the sidelines. Throw a fucking slant.
kittle hurt, right ankle, shit.
This just isn’t our year, injury after injury. IF they stay healthy next year it will be a different story
Especially on the D side.
They need to go for it, even if it is 2 yards and 4th down
Fuck that. We are down a FG. The fucking defense needs to do something.
We should take the [points.
No guts no glory
They miss on that 4th down and the game is pretty much over. And if they were gonna go on 4th they should have thrown on 3rd.
And the D can’t stop them
Take the points on the road.
Tonges time.
The Eagles will burn the clock and score
Maybe. Still first half. Field goal game right now and their kicker is shaky.
The dreaded 3rd and long.
Fuck. Lucked out on that. Got a little pressure.
In fairness to Saleh and the defense, they held the offense to 13 points in the 1st half (albeit, the half is not over). Not a bad job by any means. I’ll take it.
Yeah, big opportunity here. If we can take the lead, it’ll be huge.
Big opportunity here. Get Tonges going.
Right.
Big Dumb babysitting Sirianni again.
Emotional pre-teen.
Shanny running the prevent offense,
THe run game is going nowhere so Shanny runs on 1st down.
Kittle with an achilles injury. Fuck.
Bourne didnt know the play, so many times this year he’s done that.
Damn Kyle call to plays, in the huddle
Fucking wasted 20 seconds to throw the ball away,
Jennings that time.
Well maybe if they didn’t dick around burning extra seconds before Purdy’s scramble they get off a FG attempt!!
Kittle done for the year and most of next year, Achilles. Tig Brown has a hammy, probably done for the rest of this game.
Injury after injury.
Oh and Malik Turner who hasn’t caught a ball in 5 freaking years and it showed on his easy catch can keep his jacket on the rest of the game! Overall like Blade mentioned their still hanging in the game..
AJ Brown off to the Patriots next year book it,No way Sirianni and him can coexist..
We are going to see a lot of Tonges now. He might be the heir apparent to Kittle.
can anyone explain why that was a 10 second run off? The ball landed ob. Dead ball there.
They said by rule inside the 2 min it’s a 10 sec run off, or something like that.
Great stop, let’s go O
Irony, now he plays 2 TE but Farrell missed his block
And then a pass.
Play Tonges and Robinson for goodness sakes.
Retarded play
Derp. They have everyobe up close so, throw passes behind the line.
Purdy probably couldn’t even see over Philly’s line, i.e., a “blind” pass. SMH . . .
Can’t afford to turn it over.
what the actual fuck?
And what was Purdy looking at other than Mitchell’s jersey number?Jennings was wide open on a slant in the middle?Damm just self inflicted mistakes.,
And yet their only down a FG go figure?
uh oh. 3rd and long
time for Purdy to get his shit together.
Shanahan cannot figure out how to deisgn a quick pass to save his life
Offense is being given an opportunity “gift” by our defense. No idea how long this close score is going to last, but offense needs to PERFORM, despite the hostile crowd, wind, and Philly defense.
Wind is killing passes and punts.
They really need a bigger RB out there, CMC doesn’t have the beef or the burst against that D.
Shqanahan’s passing game is garbage. 2 weeks of the same fades to the sidelines that go nowhere.
3rd and long. If we do t bkirz
4th qtr Niners will have the wind for the win.
sirianni playong wimpy
Sirianni is the team mascot
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sheesh, even had my own eyeballs fooled for a millesecond.
holy shit!!!
Helluva catch by #23. Touchdown 49ers!
outstanding catch by CMC
Ha ha the Eagles. Coach can’t believe what happened
Finally a stop on 3rd and long
Sigle making a ton of tackles.
the awesome screen pass to 23.
McCaffrey surging in 2nd half.
TD puts exclamation mark on what I said.
Touchdown 49ers! Purdy finds 23 in end zone!
TD SAN FRANCISCO!!! CMC on 3rd and goal ! We aren’t settling for a FG Bitches!!!
So Proud of these guys,!!CMC,Jennings,Purdy,And especially Demarcus Robinson huge game with over 100 yards receiving!! Hang tough boys!!
clutch 5 minute drive matriculates football into the end zone.
gotta love it
Let’s Go Defense!!!
Shit. At least he sent pressire
Hurts pass incomplete short middle to A.Brown was a gift . . . The only way this guy’s name would ever be in lights is if his parents had named him EXIT.
Moment of truth for our defense . . . and Philly’s offense.
Siriasnni is gonna get roasted for playing soft in the 3rd quarter.
OC as well. Fans no happy about play calling.
All off season to think about it.
Yeah baby we’re moving on!!! What a game! Bang Bang Motherfuckers !! Eat Crow Sirianni &Fat Fuck Dom and u fucking Eagles losing fans!!!!
went to well once too often. Goedart was blanketed by 3 guys.
Sirianni went conservative all through the 3rd quarter.
Our defense was outstanding! Offense battled and played hard nose football when it mattered. Nice win!
The other chump (which I already mentioned) is Brown. Not certain, but he missed not 1, not 2, but 3 passes in this game. He’ll be in the Eagle dog house all off season.
Thank you Niners!
LOL I’m Always open AJ and yet he can’t make a catch all game and bitched and pouted with his coach and checked out like Vernon Davis once when Singletary said I rather play with 10 then a player that doesn’t want to be out there! Can’t do it, can’t coach him!
I want Winners!!
Spot on AK!
A chance to redeem themselves against the Sheattle Shehawks next week and I welcome it.
Last time the team was playing it’s 3rd prime time game in 13 days and back to back 6 day weeks.
Its going to be different this time around.
Unreal outcome. Saleh did show a lot more 5 man fronts in the 2nd half and it slowed down their run game. But Sirianni really went conservo. He should have tried to go downfield more when we brought the LBs closer and tried to clog the running lanes. Maybe partly because AJ bitched and dropped his way out of the game.
Late in the second quarter, Brown dropped a deep ball on a third-and-9. Sirianni raced down the sideline to seemingly confront him. Brown took issue with whatever his coach said, and also had some words for Sirianni before the two parties were separated by staff members – including DiSandro.
My question is this . . . Was it due to the dropped ball and/or to make sure he was getting off the field so that he wouldn’t pick up a penalty for too many men on the field???
https://x.com/jjones9/status/2010486597901267274?s=20
Hard to blame AJ for that one as the wind was blowing deep passes like that all over the place, but yeah, those 2 don’t get along. He may end up a Niner next year.
New thread is up.