49ers clinch NFC No. 2 seed, will host Seahawks in wild-card round

49ers Talk: A San Francisco 49ers Podcast

NBC Sports Bay Area

Football, Nfl, San Francisco 49ers, Sports, Matt Maiocco

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 January 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Matt Maiocco and Jennifer Lee Chan break down the 49ers' upcoming Wild Card Weekend matchup with the NFC West rival Seahawks, what the prior games between the teams can teach us for their next game, and how healthy San Francisco is headed into the playoffs. Then, Carlos Ramirez joins the show to discuss how the Christian McCaffrey trade was a turning point in the season and why Brock Purdy should be the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year. (1:34) 49ers to face Seahawks in NFC wild-card game (10:50) Purdy on how the 49ers can continue to elevate their performance (15:13) How will the 49ers attack the Seahawks? (20:50) Should Purdy be the Offensive Rookie of the Year? (27:37) Did the CMC trade turn around the 49ers' season? (34:20) 49ers' defense bounces back after tough Week 17 (42:40) 49ers injury report

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0:00.0	The 49ers remarkable, dare we say unbelievable, regular season is over.
0:05.8	With their week 18 victory over the Arizona Cardinals, the 49ers conclude the regular season
0:11.1	with their 10th consecutive victory and the number two seed in the
0:14.9	NFC playoffs. The 49ers headed to the post season as healthy as they've been all
0:19.2	season. The team is hot with the number one rank defense in the league and rookie quarterback Brock Purdy,
0:25.6	one of the top stories in the NFL.
0:28.1	Geebo Samuel and Eliza Mitchell returned to action against the Cardinals and the challenge now for Coach
0:33.4	Kyle Shanahan is to incorporate them into the team's suddenly explosive
0:37.8	offense in the post season. And that's the next step, the playoffs, which begin next week at Levi's Stadium.
0:45.6	Jennifer Lee Chan, Carlos Ramirez and I will take a look back at the regular season
0:50.2	and look ahead to how the 49ers set up for the playoffs.
0:54.4	All on this episode of 49ers talk coming at you right now.
0:59.4	Welcome to another edition of 49ers talk on NBC Sports Bay Area.com.
1:05.3	Introducing your host, Matt Mayoko.
1:08.8	All right, this is 49ers talk brought to you by Big O tires and I'm joined by Jennifer Lee Chan Carlos Ramirez will be joining us a little bit later but Jennifer 49ers in the season with a 10 game winning streak and all that is out the door because the Seattle Seahawks are coming to town on Saturday and the records don't matter anymore.
1:30.6	It is a single elimination tournament. So I'm just let's start off with the news of the day, which is now the 49ers know who they're going to be hosting in the first round of playoffs and it's their old friends.
1:45.4	Man, what a great matchup again. Anytime the Niners play the Seahawks, it's always a good contest and I think it's going to be a wild and very loud
1:57.8	proud here at Levi Stadium. Yeah there's no question it's always raucous. The 49ers, they had the sweep of
2:06.3	Seattle this season and they clench the NFC west up in Seattle. They
2:11.3	partied it up in their locker room there in Seattle.
2:14.8	So you know, I mean, obviously it's the playoffs.
2:17.8	Every team wants to win, but there's gonna be some added juice to this one.
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