Any time you spend almost five months trying to reach the NFL’s summit, the Super Bowl, and still fall short, emotions will understandably run high. After all that hard work and effort, it almost feels like it all might have been wasted.
But nothing excuses how the San Francisco 49ers and Trent Williams reacted at the end of a 31-7 NFC title game blowout loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. With the 49ers’ chances of winning partly influenced by an unfortunate quarterback-injury situation (one that almost saw Christian McCaffrey take snaps), frustrations started to boil over.
