
Maybe a few months from now, the San Francisco 49ers will look back on Dec. 7, the night before they dismantled a Chicago Bears team in transition, and find their turning point. At the very least, the evening can give a proud old team some hope that all the pain, difficulty and frustration of the fall of 2024 might actually take this group somewhere.
The setting was the team hotel. The speakers were quarterback Brock Purdy and corner Deommodore Lenoir, two guys who don’t typically say much in these settings.