Purdy and Shanahan thankful for McCaffrey spark as 49ers clip Seahawks' wings

Christian McCaffrey's energy and 'dog' mentality led the 49ers into victory over the Seahawks on Thanksgiving

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00:00 And Christian makes runs like that all the time.

00:02 I don't know if people really realize it, you know, just the open field and stuff.

00:05 What looks like isn't much, you know, he just keeps his motor rolling,

00:09 guys get behind him and push or he'll, you know, just spin out of something

00:13 and get a couple extra yards.

00:15 And then on that play, it's like, all right, yeah,

00:17 we're going to be down inside whatever the 10.

00:19 And then he just kept going and fighting and driving.

00:22 And it's like, yeah, that's Christian McCaffrey, man.

00:24 He's a dog.

00:26 And you just never know when he's going to keep going or get out of something.

00:29 So for him to do that didn't really surprise me.

00:32 But at the same time, like, you know, I look up to that kind of stuff.

00:36 He gives us a spark, man, and an energy to the offense when we need it most.

00:40 So respect to him.

00:42 It was awesome.

00:43 I didn't think that we were going to--I didn't think it was going to be there.

00:45 And then the way that he got in and finished it off.

00:47 And it's always once they get it close, then I'm always starting to look down

00:50 because I'm starting to think of a first and goal call or inside the one

00:54 and stuff like that.

00:55 But Christian finished all of them there.

00:57 So I didn't think they were--they didn't look like calls that should have scored.

01:01 But he made it come to life.