Scott Polacek@@ScottPolacekIncluded Columnist IVDecember 31, 2024
Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images
Monday’s video game in between the Detroit Lions and San Francisco 49ers is mainly useless in the NFC standings, however do not inform that to the gamers.
Lions protective back Kerby Joseph and 49ers pass receiver Jauan Jennings were both required individual fouls throughout something of a scuffle in the very first quarter. The event begun when Jennings was obstructing on a play and continued to do so after the whistle and out the back of completion zone:
SportsCenter @SportsCenter
Kerby Joseph and Jauan Jennings were both required individual nasty charges after the whistle on this play.<< a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DETvsSF?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">> #DETvsSF<|ABC, ESPN, ESPN+ << a href="https://t.co/HwBbWGhdd8">> pic.twitter.com/HwBbWGhdd8
The play occurred on San Francisco’s very first drive of the video game and led to balancing out charges when the home group was trying to score on a goal-to-go circumstance. San Francisco wound up scoring the video game’s very first goal on the taking place play when Brock Purdy discovered Ricky Pearsall for 6.
It revealed gamers on both groups are still playing hard even if there aren’t lots of stakes.
San Francisco has actually currently been removed from playoff contention at 6-9, while Detroit’s playoff-seeding fate will be chosen by its Week 18 face-off versus the Minnesota Vikings.
Although the Lions got in play Monday with a 13-2 record, they will still remain in a winner-takes-all scenario versus Minnesota. The victor of that video game will be the NFC North champ and No. 1 general seed in the conference, while the loser will drop to the No. 5 seed and need to go on the roadway in the Wild Card Round.
Detroit won the very first match versus the Vikings in Minnesota and will be at home this time around, although it has actually been handling injuries down the stretch of the season and needs to handle a red-hot challenger that will go into the rematch with 9 wins in a row.
It will be even more crucial for the Lions to prevent expensive charges in the video game versus the Vikings than Monday’s match with the 49ers, although the one including Joseph and Jennings was at least balancing out.
