Tom Brady didn’t face the 49ers often during his 23-year career. His teams squared off against his hometown team just five times, and going into this year he’d mostly had success against them. Then Brock Purdy came along and made the 49ers one of just three teams to finish with a positive point differential against Brady.
Prior to this year, Brady’s teams had seen the 49ers four times. He missed the 2008 meeting because of his torn ACL, but he won two of the other three in mostly convincing fashion – 21-7 in 2005 and 30-17 in the 2016 season. Sandwiched in between there was a 41-34 victory for the 49ers in 2012 when Colin Kaepernick went to Foxboro in December and out-dueled the future Hall of Famer.
