The San Francisco 49ers are roughly 28 hours away from their playoff game against the Philadelphia Eagles. On Saturday, there are a pair of NFC games in the Wild Card round. Let’s walk through how the Divisional Round would look based on Saturday’s results if the Niners can pull off the upset this weekend.

The Los Angeles Rams played their starters in Week 18 after Sean McVay felt like his team needed to play better. They travel east to take on the Carolina Panthers. This game is a rematch from Week 13, when the Panthers shocked the Rams at home...

Sunday’s Wild Card game between the San Francisco 49ers and Philadelphia Eagles will be a fistfight. The 49ers offense is looking to bounce back after its showing against Seattle, and the Eagles will look to shake their regular-season offensive woes.

Vic Fangio and Robert Saleh aren’t working with the same talent level on defense, but both have similar philosophies on defense. More specifically, coverage-wise.

The Eagles don’t blitz much, but can generate pressure with their front four. The 49ers don’t blitz much, but the defensive line is at the bottom of the league in pressure rate and sacks.

So, how...

The 49ers are clear underdogs for their wild-card matchup with the Philadelphia Eagles, despite a hugely impressive 12-win season.

San Francisco has not played a playoff game against Philadelphia since the 2022 season, when an injury to Brock Purdy ended their hopes in the NFC Championship Game.

Much has changed since that defeat, and the 49ers got a measure of revenge with a blowout win in Philadelphia in the subsequent season en route to the Super Bowl.

But, as the 49ers aim to upset the odds and make amends for that disappointment at Lincoln Financial Field, I checked in with...

The Associated Press announced the first and second-team All-Pro, and a pair of San Francisco 49ers made the list.

Christian McCaffrey made it as the All-Purpose player, with Bijan Robinson of the Atlanta Falcons getting the nod at running back. Unsurprisingly, Kyle Juszczyk gets the fullback spot. That rounds out the list of Niners on the first team. Left tackle Trent Williams, who appeared in every game but the final 1.9 games due to a hamstring injury, was the second-team All-Pro left tackle.

Williams gets recognized for his fourth All-Pro team. It marks the third time that McCaffrey has made...

I actually saw someone asking about where the mailbag was on the feed. Don’t worry, I wouldn’t pass up such a critical moment to give my (useless) answers to your (incredible) questions. For those of you who wonder, I usually post a question thread in the feed on Sunday/Monday. Hit me with your questions there. I’ll also see if there are any good feed posts outside of that to mention here. When the offseason hits, we’ll try to keep it going, but we’ll make it a bit more casual. Talk football, but also movies, video games, Golden Girls reruns— Whatever....

Kyle Shanahan shares final updates ahead of 49ers-Eagles Wild Card matchup
“On Wednesday you were less optimistic about Jacob Cowing playing, but after watching the last few days, any change of mind there?

“No.”

Does Ricky fall into the boat of a player who didn’t practice this week who could have a chance to go on Sunday?

“Yes. Yep. Ricky’s been doing this this year. Jake’s just different. This was his first practice this year was this week. He didn’t get any in training camp either.”

**[49ers’ improved special teams reflect Brant Boyer and the man who helped save him...

The San Francisco 49ers’ final injury report is out. For the second straight day, Trent Williams practiced. For the third consecutive day, Ricky Pearsall did not. Nobody has been ruled out. The following players are questionable

LB Dee Winters (ankle)

Edge rusher Keion White (grion)

LT Trent Williams (hamstring)

WR Ricky Pearsall (knee)

LB Luke Gifford (quad)

CB Renardo Green (foot)

WR Jacob Cowing

Kyle Shanahan said Green has a foot injury that happened during practice, which is why he was added to the injury report.

Shanahan also said Pearsall wasn’t able to do anything during Friday’s session, while Williams...

Going head-to-head with positions doesn’t make much sense, since Brock Purdy isn’t going to be on the field at the same time as Jalen Hurts. Could you imagine how Purdy would look with A.J. Brown and Devonta Smith? It would be all hypothetical.

So we’ll preview the San Francisco 49ers and Philadelphia Eagles based on the units that will face each other.

49ers pass catchers versus Eagles secondary

One quarterback will be tasked with elevating the talent in a difficult matchup, while the other has one of the more favorable matchups this weekend.

That’s not to make excuses for...

The San Francisco 49ers are on the road to begin the playoffs, facing the Philadelphia Eagles in the wild-card round on Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field.

The 49ers had a disappointing end to the regular season, squandering an opportunity to win the NFC West and get the conference’s No. 1 seed with a 13-3 loss at home to the Seattle Seahawks. In that game, the 49ers offense was completely neutralized, totaling only 173 yards in a game that wasn’t as close as the score indicated.

Nonetheless, San Francisco is back to regular rest and will have to regroup for a...

The San Francisco 49ers are 6-2 all-time in the Wild Card round. That’s impressive. Kyle Shanahan’s teams have been so good when they’ve made the playoffs that they’ve avoided the first round of the playoffs altogether. In two Wild Card appearances with Shanahan as the head coach, the 49ers won both games. Let’s revisit those ahead of this weekend’s matchup against the Philadelphia Eagles.

2021 NFL playoffs: 49ers 23, Cowboys 17

The 49ers scored a touchdown on their opening drive. Deebo Samuel, in the wideback days, had the first two carries of the game. Jimmy Garoppolo’s first pass went...

We’ve been keeping tabs on everything involving the San Francisco 49ers this season. Heading into Wild Card weekend against the Philadelphia Eagles, let’s go position-by-position through the Niners’ roster to detail how the depth chart stands, in an attempt to tell the story of the team that will take the field on Sunday.

We’ll try to be as accurate as possible, but understand injuries and questions at certain positions make the starter/player difficult to predict.

Quarterback

• Brock Purdy
• Mac Jones
• Adrian Martinez (practice squad)

Despite what some of the bigger talking heads wanted to believe, this...

The 31st annual “Quest for Six” begins on Sunday, as the San Francisco 49ers head east to take on the NFC East champion Philadelphia Eagles.

It’s a return to the place of one of the plethora of playoff heartbreaks of the last decade and a half for the 49ers, with the Eagles defeating the quarterback-less 49ers 31-7 in the 2022 NFC Championship Game.

The 49ers will be with a quarterback on Sunday, but it might be who they’re without that could be the story, with Trent Williams and Ricky Pearsall’s status up in the air as of Thursday night.

But...