Jimmy Garoppolo calmly led a game-winning field-goal drive Saturday night at Lambeau Field, then dropped an F-bomb on the Packers on the way out.
Shaking off a torn ligament in his right thumb and a sprained right shoulder, Garoppolo completed passes to George Kittle and Deebo Samuel for a combined 26 yards to jumpstart the drive before three straight Samuel runs pushed the 49ers into field-goal territory.
While Garoppolo showed off his emotion after the game, he said it took the opposite to eventually pull out the win after trailing for most of the game.. “A sense of, we are still controlling this. It’s just going to take one drive. You just have to chip away. It was a mature type of game where you had to be patient with it.”Aaron Josefczyk/UPI/Shutterstock; EPA
Garoppolo will now get a chance to play in the NFC Championship game next week, perhaps against his old Patriots teammate Tom Brady. “Jimmy G, you can’t say enough about that guy,” Kittle said. “The s—t he takes. Consistently people try to pull him down and all he does is try to lead this team. He is the sense of calm in the huddle, he is the sense of calm in the storm. He allows us to play football at a high level.”
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