Shanahan found the perfect bit of extra motivation before the 49ers boarded the team plane to Philly.
, despite running the ball 33 times for just 45 yards, the Bucs stunned the Eagles in Philadelphia that game, 27-10, en route to their first-ever Super Bowl victory.The 49ers will need to duplicate the former if they want any shot at the latter, and they'll attempt it with a team that doesn't look all that dissimilar to the 2002 Bucs.
The Bucs were 4-point underdogs headed into that game against the vaunted Donovan McNabb-led Eagles. Tampa Bay had one of the best defenses in league history, a solid-but-not-spectacular quarterback and tremendous skill players . The 49ers enter Sunday's NFC title game as 2.5-point underdogs against the Jalen Hurts-led Eagles. The 49ers have the league's top-ranked defense and the all-but-guaranteed defensive player of the year in Nick Bosa ,
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