SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS vs DETROIT LIONS - 2023 Season NFC Championship

Originally posted by Cisco0623:
Side note to the actual game - I loved seeing ownership get Montana back into the fold. Him hugging Barry Sanders at the 50 was awesome stuff. Two all time greats.

I think its wise they brig in the old dynasty guys to be around todays team. I think its a positive thing.

Might have been teammates but the Lions GM was stupid.

Wayne Fontes, who was the Lions coach at the time, told Sanders in Amazon's new documentary on the superstar running back that Montana reached out about playing for the Lions ahead of the 1993 season. Montana was on his way out of San Francisco and apparently wanted to share a backfield with the future Hall of Famer.

"[Montana] called me and he said, 'I'd love to play with you and Barry Sanders,' Fontes said. "I nearly jumped off my desk."

While Fontes was elated with the news, the team's general manager at the time didn't share his coach's enthusiasm.

"I went and saw Chuck Schmidt and I said, 'We got a chance at Joe Montana,' Fontes recalled. "But Chuck Schmidt said, 'He's too old. He's over the hill. He's done, another year.' I went back to Joe and said, 'I'm sorry.'"

I'm really looking forward to re-watching this game. And seeing an All 22 breakdown.

I still don't know how exactly we won and pulled this out. There seemed to be a lot of poor performances by many.

Our offense put up 30+ points but our oline seemed to struggle a lot. Kittle was invisible for a large chunk of the game. Aiyuk too was fairly invisible but had the huge long catch. CMC had some nice tough yards but was bottled up a lot. Purdy seemed to miss some throws and panicked with some reads but had some clutch plays and runs.

kind of amazing our offense was as good as it was and able to put up that many points when I'm just remembering individual performances.

Re-watching will be big though since the heat of the moment and emotions of a huge playoff game makes it tough to evaluate and even remember exactly how it went down.

I was among those that were posting at halftime when the Niners were down 24-7. I noted the Lions comeback in 1957 but I didn't feel strongly that the Niners coild do the same. It's rare to see a playoff game flip so quickly. One big play and a couple of gambles and the door was open.

That spark was all Deebo. The man put the team on his shoulder when we needed him most.

Dan Campbell was almost crying in his postgame interview.

Originally posted by 49ersvsPackers:
Dan Campbell was almost crying in his postgame interview.

Dude cries after every game lol

Originally posted by ninerfan4life:
Dude cries after every game lol

Lion fans are hurting this morning all over my Facebook feed.

Originally posted by 49ersvsPackers:

Originally posted by ninerfan4life:
Dude cries after every game lol

Lion fans are hurting this morning all over my Facebook feed.

Their coach said it, not gonna be easy to get back next year. Everyone is gonna be gunning for them.

i dont mind CJ Gardner too much cause he didn't do anything cheap or dirty on deebo. good game lions! better luck next time

Originally posted by picklejuice:
i dont mind CJ Gardner too much cause he didn't do anything cheap or dirty on deebo. good game lions! better luck next time

He blindside blocked Deebo and costed his team 15 yards.

Originally posted by picklejuice:
i dont mind CJ Gardner too much cause he didn't do anything cheap or dirty on deebo. good game lions! better luck next time

You miss his cheap blindside hit on Deebo?

Originally posted by Phoenix49ers:

Originally posted by Cisco0623:
Side note to the actual game - I loved seeing ownership get Montana back into the fold. Him hugging Barry Sanders at the 50 was awesome stuff. Two all time greats.

I think its wise they brig in the old dynasty guys to be around todays team. I think its a positive thing.

Might have been teammates but the Lions GM was stupid.

Wayne Fontes, who was the Lions coach at the time, told Sanders in Amazon's new documentary on the superstar running back that Montana reached out about playing for the Lions ahead of the 1993 season. Montana was on his way out of San Francisco and apparently wanted to share a backfield with the future Hall of Famer.

"[Montana] called me and he said, 'I'd love to play with you and Barry Sanders,' Fontes said. "I nearly jumped off my desk."

While Fontes was elated with the news, the team's general manager at the time didn't share his coach's enthusiasm.

"I went and saw Chuck Schmidt and I said, 'We got a chance at Joe Montana,' Fontes recalled. "But Chuck Schmidt said, 'He's too old. He's over the hill. He's done, another year.' I went back to Joe and said, 'I'm sorry.'"

Incredible. That would have a been insane.

The Lions lost this game. Basically s**t the bed by taking 6 points off the board on those 4th downs. Dan Campbell is an idiot. Exact opposite of Kyle. I get being aggressive, but his calls were Brandon Staley level stupid.

Worked in our favor of course. But Lions were the better team…

24-7. Thats going to be a hard lead to forget for Lions fans. Bound to be on their mind every day. Thinking about it all the time. Every hour of every day of every week. Just brewing in that 24/7.

Originally posted by Crown:

Originally posted by lamontb:
I got a whole plate of crow to eat b/c I was mad as f**k at halftime...I would like to apologize to KS Purdy and Wilks

I will apologize to KS because I still dont understand why he didnt run CMC behind Trent.

But Wilks is still on my s**t list.

This game should have never been this close.

Sad part is I don't expect anything different in his game plan against the Chiefs. Will come out in those same vanilla schemes, wait until they run up the score…then have Kyle yell in his ear before he makes the adjustments.

Did anyone hear his post game interview with Maiocco ? Said he went into halftime, saw how serious the players were….and knew right then and there that the Niners were going to win it. In other words, my scheme is not the problem, the players are. When the players adjust then my scheme works.

Give me a break