49ers - 17, Seahawks - 13
Q. Brock, were you definitely throwing that to Jake all along?
BROCK PURDY: Yeah, I knew Tonges was going to come down with it.
Q. Can you give us your view? Obviously the long play, you're looking left. You're moving around. Describe that play.
BROCK PURDY: It was a fast break, so you step up and snap the ball quick. It was a straight across the board read. I felt like the coverage was tight. At that point I felt like I needed to leave the pocket, try to find a guy in the end zone.
As I'm going away, put it hopefully to where Tonges can get it or nobody can get it. It was a close call, but he used his length, came down with it. Yeah, here we are.
Q. Christian, what was your view of it?
CHRISTIAN McCAFFREY: Yeah, I ran a flat and then just watched from there. Yeah, it was awesome. It felt like it was slow motion. Then when he came down with it, obviously we were excited.
Q. This is going to be for either of you. Did you realize that today he didn't have a career reception coming into this game, and how impressive is it that he then goes out and has the game he has?
BROCK PURDY: It's pretty sweet.
Q. What does it say about him to stay ready in that moment?
BROCK PURDY: He's a guy that last year, even against the Rams, George was down, we had Tonges go down. He's been a smart guy. It comes down to opportunities in games. Do you get the right look to get the ball and everything.
He's been a consistent guy all throughout last year and camp. George goes down today, and boom, he's ready for his opportunity.
We all love Jake. He's a smart kid, and we all love him and he's a brother to us. We're going to keep moving forward.
CHRISTIAN McCAFFREY: He's a guy that's made of the right stuff too. Practices really hard, attention to detail is great. He's willing to block, does all the things right. I was pumped for him.
Q. After 31 touches, do you sense of how your body is going to feel when you wake up tomorrow?
CHRISTIAN McCAFFREY: Oh, amazing.
Q. There was a lot of runs. Was that a grinder for you?
CHRISTIAN McCAFFREY: Yeah, it's a really good defense. You go into an NFL game, you never know how it's going to play out. You've just got to be ready for the ops. We knew that was a good defense. They don't give up a lot of explosives.
Some of them was just stick your head in there and try to get as many as you can and stay on the field. We had a lot of long drives, but overall I was just happy we got that win. They're not all going to be pretty, but it was good to come out with a win.
Q. You guys have practiced the two-minute drills. Did you practice that throw to Ricky? Is that part of the repertoire? How did that develop?
BROCK PURDY: In certain situations Kyle knows when to take a shot and everything and has a good idea of what defenses do. Yeah, that was a great play by Kyle, man. Then Ricky executed it great, double move on Tariq. For us to be able to come down with it, the O-line holding the protection and giving us the time to throw a play down the field, it's not easy.
Yeah, we've done that at practice, but I thought it was huge, man, just for Ricky to get out there in his first start and then in a clutch moment like that, do his job and come down with a catch and put us in position to score.
Q. There were a lot of games last year, particularly in the division, that came down to the wire that you weren't able to pull out. What does it do for this team's confidence to get one on the road in the division?
CHRISTIAN McCAFFREY: It means a lot. I think we have a really new team. I think there's so much talk about our past teams, but we try to wipe all the past noise away and focus on this team. To have a bunch of new guys come out for the first time together and to play with each other and get out a gritty win against a good team in a tough environment, that's a big deal.
There's so much we can build from that we're excited about, but to come out of a game like that with a win is huge.
Q. Brock, all the one-on-ones that you've done with Ricky, did that kind of pay off today?
BROCK PURDY: Yeah, 100 percent. I thought there were some things that I missed him on that he did his job really well. So we're going to go back and continue to grow and build together.
Yeah, man, from him coming in with the right attitude at camp, willing to learn our offense from day one, and be humble as a young player and ask me like, hey, as a quarterback, what do you see? What do you need from me? He's done that day in and day out, and he absolutely loves football.
For me as a quarterback, I want to ride with a guy like that and go out and compete and find ways to win. I thought today going out there, man, with the position that Kyle put him in to come out and win one-on-one reps and come out with the ball, it was pretty awesome to see. We're going to keep growing together.
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