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Doug Farrar

49ers QB Brock Purdy (elbow) out for now, replaced by seven-team veteran Josh Johnson

The first quarter of the NFC Championship game couldn’t have gone much worse for the San Francisco 49ers. The Philadelphia Eagles scored a touchdown on their opening drive in part after Kyle Shanahan failed to challenge a DeVonta Smith catch that wasn’t. Then, on the 49ers’ opening drive with 7:03 left in that first quarter, the 49ers tried to block Eagles mega-pass-rusher Haason Reddick with a tight end, with predictable results.

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