It’s not particularly easy to post six touchdowns in an NFL game. Only five teams have done it in a game this season. Scoring six touchdowns on six consecutive drives is even more difficult. That’s what San Francisco did Sunday in Philadelphia.
The 49ers opened their game with two three-and-outs on offense. They managed negative-six yards in those two series. It was a disaster. Once they got rolling though they became nigh impossible to stop.
After starting out with negative-six yards on six plays, they averaged 9.1 yards per play in their next 51 to finish at 8.0 yards per play. That efficiency resulted in touchdowns on their next six drives something that hasn’t happened in the NFL since 2019. It’s also something the 49ers haven’t done since 1992 per ESPN’s Nick Wagoner:
#49ers scored a TD on 6 straight drives today. It's first time they did that in a game since Oct. 18, 1992 against the Falcons when they also had a streak of 6 straight TD drives.
Over past 10 seasons, only other team to score a TD on 6 straight drives in a game is 2019 Ravens.
— Nick Wagoner (@nwagoner) December 4, 2023
Perhaps the most remarkable part of the 49ers’ six-consecutive scoring drives is that only one of them was shorter than 75 yards, and that one was their final TD where they’d recovered Philadelphia’s onside kick attempt.
It was an offensive masterclass from the 49ers after the face-planted out of the gates. And the fact they did something no 49ers club since 1992 had done is a good illustration of how impressive they were offensively in the biggest game of the year.
