The 49ers (for now) are the NFL’s best team, plus surprising MLB playoff results

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Last year’s NFC title game is carved into our record books, unable to be changed. And yet the game — an Eagles blowout of the visiting 49ers — still creates conversation today, all centering on one question: What if Brock Purdy hadn’t gotten hurt? 
I entered last night’s San Francisco-Dallas game wondering which team could lay claim to being the best in the NFL: The Eagles or the Niners, who were…