Sunday Night Football: 49ers beat Bears in thriller, set up battle for NFC West, No. 1 seed

In the end, the 49ers got the stop. In an intensely contested Sunday night matchup between two of the NFC's top teams, San Francisco held on to get a 42-38 victory â?? setting up a matchup with Seattle for the NFC West crown and the conference's No. 1 overall seed next Saturday night. The 49ers and Bears went back and forth throughout the contest, with Chicago taking a 7-0 lead on a pick-six off Brock Purdy on San Francisco's first play from scrimmage. But the 49ers came back to go up 14-7 before the game had ties of 14-14, 21-21, 28-28, and 35-35. The two teams finally got some separation late in the fourth quarter, as Caleb Williams couldn't complete a pass on third-and-goal from the 11, leaving Cairo Santos to connect on a 29-yard field goal to make the score 38-35 with 5:22 left in the contest.The 49ers came back to score perhaps a little sooner than they would've liked, as Purdy hit Jauan Jennings for a go-ahead, 38-yard touchdown with 2:15 left in the contest.The Bears still had all three of their timeouts ahead of the two-minute warning. They didn't need to use one of them until there were 40 seconds left, after the Bears got down to the San Francisco 26-yard line....