{"id":187744,"date":"2025-07-07T07:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T07:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/187744\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T07:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T07:15:11","slug":"49ers-history-best-win-last-5-years-nfc-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/187744\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers History: Best win last 5 years? NFC Championship?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last year, we discussed what the best 49ers\u2019 win<\/a> was in the previous five years. Now that we\u2019re into 2025, that means the epic 2019 season (and the crazy game against the New Orleans Saints) is out. Luckily, my pick, the win in the NFC Championship against the Detroit Lions in the 2023-2024 season, can still be used. <\/p>\n

Now that we\u2019re into the part of the offseason where not much is happening, I figured we\u2019d reset this topic to see what has changed now that we’re into another year, and a year that removes the aforementioned Saints game.<\/p>\n

So, without that season, we still have some notable wins, like the 2021 victory over the Los Angeles Rams<\/a> that sent the 49ers to the playoffs, or the 2023 game where the 49ers essentially broke the Philadelphia Eagles. And who can forget all the wins over the Dallas Cowboys?<\/p>\n

2024 doesn\u2019t exactly bring what we\u2019d call good \u201cwins\u201d. Or at least a win that will unseat what we have over a five-year period. Injuries for much of the season plagued the 49ers, and seeing the starting roster together for a full game was a rarity. So while we bump 2019, it\u2019s now replaced by 2024, which sucks. <\/p>\n

That means I\u2019d still go with 2023 and the NFC Championship win against the Detroit Lions<\/a>. While everyone used it as a criticism of Brock Purdy (after they said he couldn\u2019t play from behind), Purdy bailed the 49ers out of a game where his defense didn\u2019t do him any favors in the first half. I\u2019ve said this was the game where they decided Steve Wilks wasn\u2019t coming back\u2014not the Super Bowl\u2014and it\u2019s hard to change my opinion on that. <\/p>\n

Of course, as I said, we got a lot of yawns and \u201cmeh\u201ds from the haters, but for a second year quarterback to dig his team out of that hole, when nothing was going right, I don\u2019t care how good the team around you is, that does wonders for the mental game. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a win for the future, and hopefully, the future will be less like 2024. What win do you think was the \u201cbest\u201d win of the last five years? Maybe your requirements for \u201cbest\u201d are different than mine? Perhaps beating the Seattle Seahawks<\/a> to win the division in 2022 was the best win, as it\u2019s the Seahawks, and a rookie QB taking that team to school is always a good time. <\/p>\n

Or, you know, stomping the Cowboys over and over again. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last year, we discussed what the best 49ers\u2019 win was in the previous five years. Now that we\u2019re…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187745,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,1873,852,1131,7,29,4463,1319,28,854,6,1136,1161,252,2624,2623,4377,5727],"class_list":{"0":"post-187744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-best","10":"tag-championship","11":"tag-ers","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-front-page","14":"tag-history","15":"tag-last","16":"tag-nation","17":"tag-nfc","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-niners","20":"tag-san-francisco","21":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","22":"tag-sanfrancisco","23":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers","24":"tag-win","25":"tag-years"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114810724312446020","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}