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SANTA CLARA Tom Rathman Color Rush Jersey , Calif. (AP)Carlos Hyde talked about the San Francisco 49ers as a Super Bowl team – at least for next season. The mood in the Jacksonville Jaguars was much more low-key even though they clinched their first division title. It was hard to tell which was the 10-win team heading to the postseason and which was the 10-loss team with just one game left in the season. Jimmy Garoppolo passed his toughest test yet in his near-perfect start to his 49ers tenure, throwing two touchdown passes and running for a third against the NFL’s top scoring defense to lead San Francisco to a 44-33 win over the Jaguars on Sunday. The win was the fourth straight since Garoppolo took over as starter for San Francisco (5-10) and left Hyde predicting big things in the future for a franchise that looked lost a little over a month ago during an 0-9 start to the season. Garoppolo, who was well schooled by New England coach Bill Belichick in avoiding bold proclamations, seemed a bit surprised by Hyde’s prediction. ”I’ll talk to him about that,” he said. ”I don’t know. We’re dealing with the Rams next weekend. We’ll look at everything else after that.” That there is even that kind of lofty talk in San Francisco is remarkable considering where this team was just past the midpoint of coach Kyle Shanahan’s first season. But Garoppolo has changed all of that with his top-flight play since taking over as starter following the mid-season trade from the Patriots. What he did against a Jaguars defense that entered the game as the top-ranked unit in scoring and passing defense might have been his best performance yet. ”As long as you have a good quarterback, you have a good chance of winning the game https://www.49ersfanshop.com/Pierre-Garcon-Jersey ,” Hyde said. ”That’s been our thing right now. Things haven’t always been good here but it’s definitely changing and things are definitely getting better and the future is bright.” The Jaguars (10-5) still have plenty to play for after clinching the division with Tennessee’s loss earlier in the day. But they lacked composure as evidenced by a sideline argument between Malik Jackson and Aaron Colvin and three personal fouls that helped fuel two touchdown drives. The loss left Jacksonville needing a win next week and two Pittsburgh losses to get a bye. ”It’s tough. When we’re on the field we can’t allow things like that to happen,” Colvin said. ”That’s probably our biggest opponent is ourselves, when we beat ourselves. We have to fix that issue. We can’t go into the playoffs like that. Today was just an odd situation. We’re not really that kind of team. We’ll be better.” Here are some other takeaways from the game: GIVEAWAYS: Jaguars quarterback Blake Bortles entered the game on perhaps the best three-game stretch of his career as he had seven TD passes, no interceptions and 903 yards during the streak. But he threw three interceptions against the 49ers, including one returned 50 yards for a TD by Donate Johnson in the first half. ”It wasn’t our best performance,” Bortles said. ”We’re a better football team than that. We’re a better offense than that. Can’t turn the ball over and put our defense in some tough situations.” PARTY SPOILERS: The 49ers heard all week how the Jaguars wanted to celebrate a division title by handing out championship T-shirts and hats and did their best to make sure that didn’t happen on their home field. While Jacksonville did clinch Earl Mitchell Jersey , there was no celebration because of the loss. ”We heard that this was their t-shirt and hat game where they would clinch the playoffs and all that,” Hyde said. ”Guys took that personally. We’re at home. This is our last home game. We felt some type of way about that so we came out today trying to make a statement.” BIG-TIME THROW: Garoppolo has had plenty of highlights since taking over as quarterback in San Francisco. One of his best came on a fourth-quarter throw to Trent Taylor . Garoppolo was forced to scramble to his left and then threw sidearm across his body to Taylor for a 5-yard score that made it 30-19. ”Jimmy does such a great job of extending plays and making off-schedule plays,” fullback Kyle Juszczyk said. ”If you study offenses in the NFL, all the biggest plays are on off-schedule plays. If you have a guy who can do that and convert third downs it will just help your offense so much.” — SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP)The San Francisco 49ers’ long-term rebuilding project looks like it’s accelerating with the addition of Jimmy Garoppolo at quarterback. San Francisco has won four of its last five games for the first time since 2013 and Garoppolo’s play has been the key. His 1,008 yards passing are the most by a 49ers quarterback in his first three starts in team history. Finding a potential franchise signal caller gives coach Kyle Shanahan and first-year general manager John Lynch a chance to address other areas of the roster that need upgrades in the spring. For now Malcolm Smith Color Rush Jersey , the team is coming off its first victory over a playoff contender on Sunday when Robbie Gould hit a game-winning field goal as time expired to beat the Titans, 25-23. ”I am very excited with how we’re playing. It makes it a whole lot more exciting going into the offseason, because you can see it in the players,” Shanahan said. ”But I also know we got a lot of work to do.” The 49ers (4-10) have two games left, including Sunday against AFC South leading Jacksonville (10-4), which boasts one of the NFL’s most ferocious defenses. The Jaguars entered Week 15 leading the NFL in opponents scoring https://www.49ersfanshop.com/Robbie-Gould-Jersey , takeaways and sacks, which hasn’t been done throughout an entire season since the 1970 merger. San Francisco, after starting the season 0-9, has long been eliminated from playoff contention. But Shanahan is using the end of the regular season as a measuring stick. After the Jaguars, currently the No. 3 seed in the AFC, the 49ers will travel to play the division leading Rams (10-4) on New Year’s Eve. ”When you look at teams that have those type of numbers Reuben Foster Jersey , they have as good a chance as anyone to go all the way,” Shanahan said. ”So I know it’ll be a huge challenge for us and hopefully we’ll heal up this week and look at the tape and have a plan to try to get after them on Sunday.” A winning performance from Garoppolo against the Jags might lift expectations even higher. He set career-highs in back-to-back weeks by throwing for 334 and 381 against Houston and Tennessee, respectively. And he’s engineered fourth-quarter game-winning drives in two of his three starts. But the real test, according to Shanahan, will be how Garoppolo handles adversity. He mostly avoided it while going 5-0 as a starter dating back to last season when helped the Patriots win two games during Tom Brady’s suspension to start the year. ”I’m sure some day he will lose and guys have rough games,” Shanahan said. ”I don’t care how good you are or if you’re the greatest quarterback of all time. … In order to see how guys are doing Ahkello Witherspoon Color Rush Jersey , you’ve got to see how they respond to adversity and how they can do it over the long haul. Jimmy is going to get that opportunity and we’ll see, and I feel pretty confident he’ll handle it the right way.” NOTES: Shanahan announced WR Aldrick Robinson and rookie S Adrian Colbert will begin in the week in concussion protocol after suffering head injuries Sunday against Tennessee.