SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Christian McCaffrey scored his moment landing on a 6-yard run with 1:07 to play games, and the San Francisco 49ers fixed their first second-half comeback of the season to defeat the Green Bay Packers 24-21 in a divisional-round playoff sport on Saturday night time.
Upcoming spending all habitual season as front-runners, the Niners (13-5) had to come from at the back of for a metamorphosis, and Brock Purdy and McCaffrey did simply plenty at the terminating pressure to ship San Francisco to its 1/3 immediately NFC championship sport. The Niners will host the winner of Sunday’s sport between Tampa Bay and Detroit after weekend for a place within the Tremendous Bowl.
Purdy went 6 for 7 for 47 yards at the decisive pressure, changing a 3rd all the way down to Brandon Aiyuk and next a 17-yarder to Chris Conley.
“It’s a team effort,” Purdy stated all the way through his postgame, on-field interview. “The defense was out there, making stops, and we were like, ‘man, we’ve got to do something.’ For myself, it was like ‘calm down, go through your reads, take what they give you, and put a drive together.'”
McCaffrey completed it off along with his run on third-and-short and the 49ers’ protection hung on from there, with Dre Greenlaw intercepting Jordan Love for the second one pace to seal San Francisco’s 5th immediately playoff win over Inexperienced Bay (10-9).
That terminating throw throughout his frame used to be one of the most few errors through Love, who had given the Packers the top with two TD passes within the 1/3 quarter. However his first complete season because the starter in park of Aaron Rodgers had a disappointing finishing.
Love had put the Niners within the bizarre spot of taking part in from at the back of. Inexperienced Bay transformed a third-and-15 when Ambry Thomas used to be known as for a 41-yard cross interference name in opposition to Bo Melton. Love and Melton next hooked up at the after play games for a wide-open 19-yard landing aided through Tashaun Gipson slipping at the rainy turf in protection.
Upcoming McCaffrey put San Francisco again within the top with a 39-yard TD run, Inexperienced Bay struck temporarily due to a 73-yard kick go back through All-Professional Keisean Nixon that he fumbled, handiest to have teammate Eric Wilson recuperate.
4 performs after, Love threw a 2-yard landing cross to Tyler Kraft and the Packers prolonged the top to 21-14 on a 2-point conversion cross to Aaron Jones.
The Niners have been the primary staff to assemble the playoffs in 13 seasons with out overcoming a second-half lack to win a sport.
“After awhile, it was like, ‘I’ve got to get into a rhythm, I’ve got to hit guys that are open.’ That’s on me,” Purdy stated. “Overall, we had to find a way to win, that’s playoff football, we’re going to get their best. And we made it work.”
They were given a 52-yard subject purpose from Jake Moody at the first play games of the fourth quarter to assemble it a four-point sport and it stayed there when rookie Anders Carlson neglected a 41-yarder for Inexperienced Bay.
The Packers moved the ball simply within the first 1/2, entering the crimson zone on 3 immediately drives to available the sport. However they couldn’t completing any of them off, atmosphere for 2 subject objectives and getting prohibited on a fourth-and-1 sneak. They become the primary staff in twenty years to succeed in the crimson zone on their first 3 drives of a playoff sport with out getting a TD.
The Niners made them pay for that with Purdy hitting George Kittle on a 32-yard cross at the run for a TD that gave San Francisco the top.
However San Francisco squandered every other prospect overdue within the 1/2 when teacher Kyle Shanahan wasted pace sooner than settling for a 48-yard subject purpose aim through Moody that used to be banned through Colby Wooden to ship the Niners into the 1/2 with a 7-6 top.
San Francisco huge receiver Deebo Samuel injured his shoulder at the opening pressure and neglected many of the sport.
The Related Press contributed to this document.
