It sure feels the vast majority of San Francisco 49ers contests over the past five weeks have felt like playoff football. And given the postseason-seeding implications of each contest and how hotly contested the NFC is this season, the Niners’ last five games arguably have been.
And such was the case on Saturday night at Levi’s Stadium, where San Francisco managed a 34-31 victory over the Los Angeles Rams, pushing head coach Kyle Shanahan’s squad to 12-3 on the season while also ending the Rams’ bid for a return to the playoffs.
Kicker Robbie Gould‘s game-winning field goal was set up by two first-down conversions on 3rd-and-16, which highlighted quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo‘s abilities to at least come through in clutch situations.