The San Francisco 49ers didn’t need fireworks on offense to handle the Carolina Panthers on Monday night. They controlled things from start to finish, walked out with a 20–9 win, and never really looked threatened. Still, the moment everyone was talking about came after the clock hit zero.

As players met at midfield, Jauan Jennings suddenly swung at Carolina safety Tre’von Moehrig. It looked out of character for the Niners’ receiver until replays surfaced from a late Christian McCaffrey run. Moehrig appeared to take a cheap shot below the belt on Jennings in the pile, and the frustration carried over to the handshake line.

Panthers coach Dave Canales wasn’t thrilled to see one of his guys at the center of that kind of headline.

“I’ll get to the bottom of that. I wanna see what exactly h

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