Sunday’s NFC Championship Game between the 49ers and Eagles will be a throwback to brutal, facemask-to-facemask, mud-and-blood football.
SANTA CLARA — Football can be a beautiful game, replete with dazzling athletic feats of finesse, improvisation and grace.
This will be football in its cardinal form. The NFL has become a pass-first league, but these two teams didn’t join the trend. The Eagles were second in the NFL in rushing attempts this season, the 49ers were fifth. So this game will be settled in the trenches by the burly, manhandling offensive and defensive lines, with input only coming from smaller players if they can punch well above their weight.And here’s the thing about this game in particular: I don’t know who will win.
The Niners line up with the Bay Area’s ideals, too. Kyle Shanahan’s offense is the NFL’s most innovative, the roster is built off a true meritocracy , and the stadium is impressive, but not nearly impressive enough to cost that much to build or visit.The Niners are truly West Coast. They might be nice and say complimentary things about the Eagles, but they are not kind.
“Then you get on the field on Sunday, and the film after the game will show you. … I know we’re going to come out and be violent and physical. I’m expecting them to do the same thing. We’ll see.” The 49ers will need linebacker Fred Warner — arguably the best linebacker in the NFL — to have his best game of the year. If the Niners call the wrong defense — or Hurts changes his mind midplay — it’ll be Warner’s job to clean up the mess. If Warner fails to do that, it could be a big mess, indeed. The Eagles’ offense is a juggernaut.
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