The 49ers won. San Francisco is now 1-30 under Kyle Shanahan when trailing by 7+ points in the 4th quarter. They did it without Deebo Samuel, whose first-quarter injury cast a pall over the game, a gloom matched only by the murky downpour that stifled the Niners at every turn. They did it without a single sack from their vaunted defensive line, freshly reinforced by interior stalwart Arik Armstead. They did it needing to stop the hottest quarterback on the planet after their own turned in his ugliest performance since Christmas. But they did it.
Brock Purdy hit George Kittle for a long, arcing touchdown pass that dispelled the rain for a few precious moments. Christian McCaffrey, the focal point of the Niners' offense once Samuel went down, chugged along for 128 yards on 24 total touches (17 rushes, 7 receptions), and Dre Greenlaw hauled in two key interceptions and nearly 30 full seconds of circus-route returns between the two that had 49ers fans screaming, "Get down already!" Oh, and kicker Jake Moody redeemed his blocked 48-yard field goal at the end of the first half with a crucial 52-yarder early in the fourth that cut the Packers' lead to 4. Despite his rocky conclusion to the regular season, the amplified pressure of the comeback, and the curtains of rain that separated San Francisco from the NFC Championship Game, Moody was as clutch as clutch gets with a solid make on that field goal and another late extra point.
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