For a time during Sunday afternoon’s NFC title game, the San Francisco 49ers looked dead in the water. After the journeyman underdog story in Brock Purdy would fumble the ball early (and get injured in the process) — drawing comparisons to a “new Tom Brady” — it seemed like the Philadelphia Eagles would be unopposed in notching a berth in Super Bowl 57.
But the NFL’s best defense and, perhaps more importantly, one of the NFL’s best running backs, Christian McCaffrey, got San Francisco up off the mat.
