Brock Purdy and the 49ers pour it on late to ground Seahawks in NFC unquestionable benefit tie
Brock Purdy threw three score passes and ran for a fourth score in his season finisher debut, driving the San Francisco 49ers to a 41-23 victory over the Seattle Seahawks in a surprising case game on Saturday.
“We have a target of winning the whole thing,” Purdy said. “We’re in a contest, so anything can happen. I have such a remarkable get-together, O-line, subject matter experts, and watch, across the whole board, man. It’s start and end except for a restrictive show. I’m astoundingly regarded. Appreciative to be here.”
Purdy took up where he disregarded in the standard season for the 49ers (14-4) and offered relatively few traces of season-finisher nerves by winning his sixth moderate start since displacing a hurt Jimmy Garoppolo without even batting an eye in Seven days 13 win over Miami.
The Niners advanced to the divisional round where they will have either Minnesota, Tampa Straight, or Dallas multi week’s end from now.
“While we’re playing our best football, the offense is doing our thing, the watch is doing their thing, we’re a hard collecting to beat,” Purdy said. “We know “That. We should essentially keep on tapping on all chambers.”
The Niners tore it open when Deebo Samuel took a short pass from Purdy and hustled in for a 74-yard score.
Purdy threw for 332 yards – the second most ever for a novice near the culmination of the time games to Russell Wilson’s 385 in misfortune to Atlanta a long time back – and he changed into point of fact the essential learner QB to address four TDs in a season finisher game.
The Seahawks (9-9) kept it close for most of 3/4 going before a strip sack by Charles Omenihu late in the second last quarter obliterated a red zone drive.
Purdy then, at that point, hit Jauan Jennings on a 33-yard pass to set up the TD pass to Mitchell that tore the game open. Purdy tied an NFL record for youngsters set by Justin Herbert with his seventh moderate game with different TD passes.
San Francisco store on starting there.
The trouble gave a confounding finish to a stunning season for the Seahawks, who got into the fruition of the time games on the last week’s end in their most imperative season following trading away Wilson.
Geno Smith stepped in fairly, throwing 30 TD passes in the ordinary season and keeping it close for quite a while in the season finisher game thanks to a 50-yard TD pass to DK Metcalf in the focal half.
Smith finished 25 for 35 for 253 yards, two TDs, and one impedance.
The Niners hustled out to a 10-0 lead after two effects getting a field objective on the fundamental drive and sometime later a 3-yard pass from Purdy to McCaffrey following McCaffrey’s 68-yard run on the subsequent having a spot.
Regardless, Seattle battled back with a 14-play drive covered by Kenneth Walker’s seven-yard run and the tremendous pass to Metcalf.
The Seahawks took a 17-16 lead into the half considering a bonehead play by Niners thriving Jimmie Ward. Smith blended nine yards to his own 47 with one second left in the half, yet Ward hit him late after he started sliding.
The 15-yard discipline moved the ball to the San Francisco 38 and Jason Myers made a 56-yard field objective to make it 17-16 at the half.
Seattle changed into the third collecting beginning from the start of the 2000 postseason to lead at the half in a season finisher game coming to fruition to follow by something like 10 close to the culmination of the central quarter.