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Brock Purdy and the 49ers won’t quickly forget the opportunities they lost in the Super Bowl.
LAS VEGAS: The San Francisco 49ers were thinking about Patrick Mahomes even when they controlled the ball on Sunday.
In overtime, facing third-and-four from the Chiefs’ 9-yard line, 49ers quarterback Patrick Mahomes would have a chance to reply with the kind of game-winning drive that has made him a star, so Brock Purdy said he knew the team couldn’t settle for a field goal.
Purdy stated, “You just don’t want to give him a chance to go down and win the game with a touchdown.”
That’s precisely what took place.
The 49ers’ third-down play was a good one. It called for Jauan Jennings, a strong contender for the game’s MVP award at that point, to start inside, then cut quickly back to the near pylon. He did, shaking his defender in the process.
“It looked like Jauan killed him, won pretty good,” 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan said afterward.
