49ers players describe exhilarating scene watching Cards beat Eagles

LANDOVER, Md. — It was not the usual postgame protocol after 49ers players left the field following their 27-10 win over the Washington Commanders on Sunday at FedExField. Usually, the entire group gathers in the locker room for coach Kyle Shanahan's postgame speech and a breakdown of the game - but not this time. Half of the team huddled together surrounding the small television Shanahan's changing room. Another group gathered in a hallway around another screen in the coaches area as the seconds ticked down on a very close game between the Arizona Cardinals and the Philadelphia Eagles. Then, as the game clock wound down to 0:00 with the Cardinals emerging as the victors, elated cheering and yelling could be heard through the doors of the 49ers' locker room and into the halls of FedExField. The 49ers' NFC West foe had just helped them lock in the NFC' No. 1 playoff seed, giving them a first round bye and home-field advantage. "It was a lot of fun," Nick Bosa said after the game. "We came in here, and there's a little TV in here. Everyone was on top of each other trying to watch. The Cardinals helped us out a lot this year." Charvarius Ward, who had a momentum-changing...