If Sunday’s NFC Championship game was the final chapter of the Jimmy Garoppolo era for the 49ers, it ended inauspiciously.
The 49ers needed a final drive to keep their seemingly improbably run alive, trailing the Rams by a field goal with just over a minute remaining. On third-and-long, Garoppolo scrambled back under pressure, and as he was dragged down, he tried to flip a pass away to JaMychal Hasty. The pass sailed over Hasty’s head, however, and Travin Howard picked it off — allowing the Rams to run out the clock.
After the game, Garoppolo was disappointed but composed.