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49ers QB Brock PurdyTim Nwachukwu/Getty Images
On Sunday, the San Francisco 49ers fought the Philadelphia Eagles in a rematch of in 2015’s NFC Championship Game.
While Philadelphia entered the video game with a league-best 10-1 record and had home-field benefit, the 49ers took it to the safeguarding NFC champs, entrusting to a definitive success.
The 49ers did adequate to restrict Jalen Hurts, while the offense got big video games from Deebo Samuel, Christian McCaffrey, George Kittle and Brock Purdy. While the Eagles still have control of the conference’s No. 1 seed, San Francisco showed that, for a minimum of one day, it is the NFC’s leading group.
Here’s what else we discovered throughout the 49ers’ Week 13 win over the Eagles.
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49ers WR Deebo SamuelTim Nwachukwu/Getty Images
The Eagles controlled the 49ers in 2015’s NFC title video game, winning 31-7 and punching a ticket to Super Bowl LVII while doing so. Purdy and backup quarterback Josh Johnson were both knocked out of that video game.
“We lost since we had fun with 10 individuals,” 49ers wideout Deebo Samuel stated of that video game in May, per Zion Olojede of Complex.
It definitely seemed like the 49ers aspired to show that they were the much better group in Sunday’s rematch. Gamers were seen disrupting the Eagles pre-game warmups, and linebacker Dre Greenlaw was later on ejected following an interaction with a Philadelphia employee.
Both groups played a physical brand name of ball, and things were chippy and tense throughout the contest.
If San Francisco was undoubtedly utilizing in 2015’s loss as inspiration, it worked. Samuel, in specific, was magnificent, ending up with 166 getting lawns, 22 hurrying lawns and 3 goals.
While Philadelphia tallied 333 lawns and went 8-of-15 on 3rd down, it tape-recorded just 19 points in 5 journeys into San Francisco area.
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Brock PurdyMitchell Leff/Getty Images
On Thursday night, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott made a strong push for NFL MVP with a 299-yard, three-touchdown efficiency in a thriller versus the Seattle Seahawks.
Purdy addressed with his own huge getaway and another signature win on Sunday. He completed 19-of-27 for 314 backyards and 4 goals without any interceptions. While a few of his greatest plays were of the catch-and-run range, Purdy was amazing total.
Purdy’s MVP case is strong. He went into Week 13 leading the league in conclusion portion (70.2 ), backyards per effort (9.4 ), passer ranking (112.3) and QBR (75.6 ). He had actually tossed for 2,871 lawns with 19 goals and just 6 interceptions.
