{"id":80241,"date":"2025-05-26T13:06:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T13:06:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/80241\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T13:06:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T13:06:12","slug":"cardinals-sean-murphy-bunting-49ers-jauan-jennings-ejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/80241\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardinals&#8217; Sean Murphy-Bunting, 49ers&#8217; Jauan Jennings ejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Arizona Cardinals cornerback Sean Murphy-Bunting and San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jauan Jennings were both disqualified from Sunday\u2019s season finale for a skirmish in the second quarter at State Farm Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>One play after Jennings got into it with Cardinals cornerback Starling Thomas V, he and Murphy-Bunting took each other to the turf away from the play as Jennings blocked on a 49ers run.<\/p>\n<p>For a game with no playoff implications, the first half provided plenty of drama.<\/p>\n<p>It proved to be a costly kerfuffle(s) for Jennings, who finished his season prematurely at 975 yards. He just missed out on his first career 1,000-yard season after starting the game with seven catches for 52 yards.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/49ers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">#49ers<\/a> Jauan Jennings just got ejected 25 yards away from 1k receiving yards on the season \ud83d\ude31 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cKsTwIvIdy\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/cKsTwIvIdy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud835\ude4f\ud835\ude5d\ud835\ude5a\ud835\ude4e\ud835\ude41\ud835\ude49\ud835\ude5e\ud835\ude63\ud835\ude5a\ud835\ude67\ud835\ude68 (@TheSFNiners) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheSFNiners\/status\/1876034373990199587?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">January 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Murphy-Bunting came away with his third interception of the season earlier in the first half to set up a Cardinals touchdown. His ejection came after Cardinals rookie cornerback <a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/story\/3569404\/cardinals-max-melton-wrist-injury\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Max Melton<\/a> exited the game with a wrist injury. Melton was later ruled out, and the Cardinals only had Garrett Williams, Thomas and Kei\u2019Trel Clark left.<\/p>\n<p>Cardinals-49ers offers dramatic opening half<\/p>\n<p>The ejections preluded a scoring avalanche at the end of the first half.<\/p>\n<p>The 49ers scored a touchdown shortly after the fighting stopped, as quarterback Joshua Dobbs punched the ball in from the one-yard line. San Francisco tied the game 10-10 with the extra point.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona marched down the field on eight plays to respond, scoring on a Trey McBride touchdown reception to take a 17-10 lead.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TREY MCPLAY IS ON DISPLAY TODAY \ud83e\udd2f\ud83e\udd2f\ud83e\udd2f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bj7wTApGhg\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/bj7wTApGhg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arizona Cardinals (@AZCardinals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AZCardinals\/status\/1876038301892698140?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">January 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>San Francisco followed with a 10-play, 70-yard drive that ended in a Dobbs <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NFL\/status\/1876040963166187975\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">touchdown pass<\/a> to rookie wide receiver, Corona Del Sol alum and former Arizona State Sun Devil Ricky Pearsall.<\/p>\n<p>That left 16 seconds on the clock, enough time for the Cardinals to set up kicker Chad Ryland for a 49-yard field goal, which he nailed right down the middle.<\/p>\n<p>The score at halftime was 20-17, Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p>Arizona held on for a 47-24 win.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexjweiner\" data-show-count=\"false\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Follow @alexjweiner<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arizonasports.com\/arizona-sports-newsletter-signup\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AZSportsEmail-300x250-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AZSportsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arizona Cardinals cornerback Sean Murphy-Bunting and San Francisco 49ers wide receiver Jauan Jennings were both disqualified from Sunday\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,1632,7,1631,6,1630,1161,252,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-80241","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-arizona-sports-now-on-98-7-fm","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-home","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-phoenix-arizona-sports-news-phoenix-breaking-sports-news","14":"tag-san-francisco","15":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","16":"tag-sanfrancisco","17":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114574287471799875","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80241","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=80241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}