Kevin Burkhardt and Greg Olsen talk about the Philadelphia Eagles defeating the San Francisco 49ers to head back to the Super Bowl for the first time in five years when they defeated the New England Patriots.
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The team with the best record in the NFC all season is Super Bowl bound.
The hugely anticipated NFC Championship between the San Francisco 49ers and Philadelphia Eagles unfortunately was not much of a game.
In a choppy, penalty-filled, ill-tempered affair at Lincoln Financial Field, the Eagles stamped their ticket to the Super Bowl with an emphatic 31-7 win over the 49ers, who by the third quarter had no healthy quarterbacks active on the roster.
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Things got a bit testy in the final minutes of Sunday’s NFC championship game.
Sunday’s NFC championship game between the Eagles and 49ers took a turn for the ugly in the dying minutes, as an afternoon full of frustration appeared to reach a breaking point for San Francisco.
With Philadelphia holding a commanding 31–7 lead, tempers flared on the 49ers’ final possession of the game. After a third-down rush by Christian McCaffrey that left San Francisco short of the line, action continued through the referees’ whistle as players kept pushing and jawing at each other.
Michael Strahan, Rob Gronkowski and the rest of the “FOX NFL Sunday” crew react to the Philadelphia Eagles’ dominant victory over the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship.
Miles Sanders couldn’t be stopped, as his 13-yard rushing TD in the second quarter helped the Philadelphia Eagles to a 31-7 victory over the San Francisco 49ers in the NFC Championship game.
The NFC Championship Game was decided well before the final whistle blew. 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy got hurt on the team’s first drive. Backup quarterback Josh Johnson suffered a concussion on the team’s first drive of the second half. The Philadelphia Eagles advanced to the Super Bowl practically by default.
There’s an argument to be made that the Eagles faced the easiest path to the Super Bowl in history.
Brock Purdy | Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images
San Francisco has its answer at quarterback
It didn’t well for Brock Purdy and the San Francisco 49ers Sunday, but in the big picture, the franchise has its answer at the game’s most important position.
The 49ers’ spunky rookie left the game in the first quarter at the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC championship game after getting hit on the right elbow and losing a fumble on a planned pass play. At halftime, San Francisco coach Kyle Shanahan told the broadcast that Purdy would not be able to return.
49ers quarterback Brock Purdy suffered a right elbow injury on San Francisco’s sixth offensive snap but returned in the third quarter after Josh Johnson took a hard hit.
The National Basketball Referees Association admitted to missing Jayson Tatum’s foul on LeBron James at the end of regulation and called the mistake “gut-wrenching.