49ers-Colts Week 16 MNF Recap: Brock Purdy and Philip Rivers Give Us a Night to Remember
NFL Daily with Gregg Rosenthal
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🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Gregg Rosenthal and Nick Shook react to the Week 16 Monday Night Football action between the San Francisco 49ers and Indianapolis Colts. Brock Purdy went nuclear with 5 passing touchdowns, but Philip Rivers showed flashes of greatness to keep Indianapolis in the game. In the end, the 49ers pushed forward with high chances at top seeding in the playoffs, and the Colts dropped to near-zero chances of playing deep into January.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.5 | Shanahan used his challenge earlier, so they snapped the ball on third down. |
| 0:08.2 | Now he throws in a near pipeline, and it's caught by McCaffrey. |
| 0:12.7 | Touchdown, 49ers! |
| 0:15.8 | Touchdown! |
| 0:16.8 | I guess when you're such a precise play call or just let one go and get it to Christian McCaffrey |
| 0:22.3 | wide open out in the in the flat. |
| 0:26.9 | The fifth touchdown, a career high for Brock Purdy tonight. |
| 0:32.7 | Oh, how dare you, Brock Purdy? |
| 0:35.9 | On Philip Rivers' night? We're watching Old Man Rivers go up and down the field, |
| 0:41.8 | and you have the gall to put up a 40-burder on a Colts defense that couldn't get a stop all night. |
| 0:48.1 | Yes, Brock Birdie, five touchdowns in a 48 to 27 victory over the Indianapolis Colts, all but eliminating the Colts from |
| 0:59.4 | playoff contention and clinching a playoff spot for three AFC teams, the Bills, the Jags, and |
| 1:06.7 | the Chargers. But this night, my friend Nick Shook, was all about Brock Purdy and Philip Rivers. And we're going to give Philip Rivers a lot of time. And if you're looking for that pick six at the end of the game, you're not going to find it on this show. We don't support Philip Rivers pick sixes. But we do support an awesome performance by this 49ers offense, which we just got to give them their flowers. They are, to me, |
| 1:28.2 | the team that no one is going to want to face in the NFC playoffs. Absolutely. This is a team that |
| 1:33.4 | has been fighting through so many injuries since the start of training camp. There was much, you know, |
| 1:37.8 | news made about how they were missing so many receivers in camp. And then they lose Brock Purdy and |
| 1:42.4 | they lose George Kittle. And yet they somehow continued to find ways to win with Mack Jones. They lost Fred Warner. Their defense is still playing good ball. And now they're getting hot at the right time. They seem to be healthier than at any other point in this season. And Brock Purdy is back to full strength. He's back. He's better than ever. He sets a career high with five touchdown passes. |
| 2:01.5 | Get out of the Niners way. It just might be their year. I can't believe how easy they made it look. |
| 2:08.4 | And sometimes Purdy and whoever's quarterbacking the 49ers, like the receivers are so open that |
| 2:15.6 | you give Kyle Shanahan all the credit. But if you think about the throws that Purdy made during this game, |
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