49ers' Secret Weapon Revealed: Can They Defy the Odds and Run It Back?

The 49ers have already gone into Seattle this season and beat the Seahawks. That occurred in the first week of the season when the team seemed relatively healthy. San Francisco has been one of the better offensive teams this season, but in that game it was a low-scoring affair that they just kind of outlasted Seattle. One of the bets I made last week was to take the 49ers with the points against the Eagles. I just didn’t see Philadelphia making the progress I thought they needed in order to justify a substantial spread. Part of my argument was that if the game became a shootout, Philadelphia would be in trouble. I turned out that it wasn’t a shootout and the 49ers won a bit of a grind-it-out type game. Brock Purdy even tried to help the Eagles, giving up two interceptions, but the Eagles only came up with three points off of them. The question was always about if San Francisco’s defense could come up with a stop when it needed one. They did. The Eagles had a chance to win the game, and San Francisco stopped them, turning the ball over on downs and ending the big for a repeat. This also means we get two new teams in the Super Bowl for the first time in three years.