Pride on the line as Lions visit Levi's in rematch of last season's NFC Championship

49ers Talk with Matt Maiocco

NBC Sports Bay Area

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

4.6 • 988 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Matt Maiocco and Jennifer Lee Chan remember the iconic 2024 NFC Championship Game last season between the 49ers and the Detroit Lions. San Francisco's 17-point comeback was tied for the largest NFC title game comeback in NFL history. With much less on the line in their Week 17 rematch, Matt and Jennifer discuss how both teams will cope with injuries and what motivates the 49ers with two games remaining after being eliminated from playoff contention.

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0:00.0	The rematch of last year's NFC championship game looks nothing like last year's NFC championship game.
0:11.8	We all know the 49ers have been ravaged by injuries this season,
0:15.1	but the Detroit Lions have experienced their own share of injuries, more, in fact, than the 49ers have.
0:21.7	Yet the Lions are still right there atop the NFC standings entering this matchup on Monday night
0:26.9	football. The 49ers will have to piece together their offensive line to protect quarterback
0:31.8	Brock Purdy against the revenge-seeking lions. Jennifer Lee Chan and I will bring you up to date on all the latest from
0:38.7	the 49ers who have been officially eliminated from playoff contention. Then the voice of the 49ers
0:44.7	Greg Papa will join us for our weekly Ask Papa segment. We'll take a look back at that remarkable
0:50.3	playoff game at Levi Stadium. It's a game that will largely be forgotten because the 49ers
0:56.1	did not win the Super Bowl, but Papa will share what he remembers from that showdown. We'll have all
1:02.1	that and much more on this episode of 49ers talk coming at you right now. Welcome to another episode of 49ers
1:10.3	talk on NBC Sports Bay Area.com.
1:13.9	Introducing your hosts, Matt Mayoko and Jennifer Lee Chan.
1:18.7	All right, this is 49ers Talk, brought you by your locally owned Bigotires, the team you trust.
1:24.0	Matt Mayoko, Jennifer Lee Chan, and Jennifer, what was the first thing you looked at when that schedule came out in the spring?
1:31.3	How exciting this Monday Night Football matchup would be with the Detroit Lions. It is a playoff rematch, but it didn't really turn out that way.
1:39.3	No, it was like, oh my gosh, that gave me from the number one scene, one scene. Yes. You know what I actually thought?
1:44.9	I actually thought that the lions would take a dip.
1:48.8	I thought that whenever a team like that kind of not necessarily comes out of nowhere,
1:54.6	but kind of that you get that far in the postseason, you lose in the kind of the dramatic fashion they lost,
2:02.3	I thought that it would take that franchise a while to recover. And so if you were to tell me
2:08.6	probably back then, you know, maybe there's one of those teams that won't be in the position,
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