Tom Brady’s mega-move to Tampa Bay means many things, and to the 49ers, it illuminates the stable of NFC quarterbacks capable of dethroning the conference champs.
This goes beyond Brady’s two-decade dominance with the New England Patriots, all of which made the AFC playoffs his perennial playground en route to nine Super Bowls.
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The NFC’s new quarterback landscape will make the 49ers’ Super Bowl encore even tougher to attain.
The NFC is decorated with playoff-proven quarterbacks. The 49ers’ Jimmy Garoppolo is now one of them, of course, having won his playoff openers against Minnesota and Green Bay before a Super Bowl stumble against the Kansas City Chiefs.