The 49ers are coming off one of the more dramatic seven-day stretches for an NFL team that I’ve recently seen. San Francisco punched their wild-card ticket just eight days ago in overtime of the final week of the regular season against their division rival on the road in Los Angeles. They follow that up with an opening-round upset of the Cowboys on the road in Dallas.
Coming into the game, if Kyle Shanahan’s crew was going to pull off the upset, it was going to take a superhuman effort from Deebo Samuel, a monster rushing attack, and lots of pressure vs.