The 49ers are headed back to the playoffs after blowing out the Cardinals for the second time this season, capping their 10-game win streak with a 38-13 rout.

Brock Purdy threw three touchdown passes — two to George Kittle — and the 49ers’ running back duo of Elijah Mitchell (two rushing TDs) and Christian McCaffrey (one receiving score) also scored three times to solidify the blowout win.

Kittle’s two touchdowns bring his total for the season to 11 scores, seven of which have come over the last four weeks from the rookie Purdy.

The San Francisco defense allowed a trick-play touchdown pass to A.J. Green on the second play of the game, but held Arizona’s offense full of backups to seven points over the remaining 59 minutes. Defenders also capitalized on mistakes from the Cardinals as Tashaun Gipson Sr. intercepted David Blough twice, then Jordan Willis forced a Blough fumble that Michael Dwumfour recovered and, finally, George Odum intercepted Blough’s replacement, Trace McSorley.

The 49ers head to the playoffs for a second straight year. Here’s what they had to say after the win.

Kyle Shanahan

On whether he got sideline updates about other games:

No, got no updates. When I came in, saw them kick an onside kick so that ended pretty fast.

On how he feels about the team:

I feel real good. I felt real good about our team when we won the division there about a month ago and I feel better about them now. I think we’ve gotten better since that point.

On any trouble taking Bosa out on the edge of a team record in sacks:

A little bit but I think the bigger one — hopefully he finished leading the league. He did, right? Hassan did get many? It would have been nice to get the franchise record, too, but you know, Aldon did a hell of a job and I think Nick’s pretty happy with leading the league this year.

On the Hamlin situation:

It was emotional watching the Buffalo game. I got to see some of that this morning. I thought was so cool watching the national anthem. I mean, those are his brothers … Watching Buffalo, you could see the emotion and it was unbelievable to see that opening kickoff return.

On how to spread the ball around to Samuel, McCaffrey and Mitchell:

Just keep doing it the same way we’ve done it when they have been in or when they haven’t been in. We balance it out, we spread it around and we see how it ends up at the end of the game.

On defensive mistakes:

I try not to say anything in here that makes it look like I’m too negative but we’re gonna go in there and correct everything. I mean, there was things with the offense I didn’t like today. There are always things that you see. I think the big plays have hurt us lately. They had that trick play on that first drive, launch the ball up to A.J. Green, who’s as good of a 50/50 guy as there is.

On how soon he corrects Purdy on mistakes:

As soon as he was on the ground and I was yelling in his ear.

On Gipson:

He’s come in here and he’s been kind of the wisdom of our defense. I mess around with him, call him Dad sometimes, which he’s not. But he’s been so consistent, always putting that top, the backstop on our defense. He’s got great ball skills — he always has. … Jimmie, whether he’s an all-pro safety or an All-Pro nickel, it’s been great to be able to have Jimmy there.

On J.J. Watt:

I was very upset with him all game because he’s still unbelievable. I mean, he was a problem throughout the game for us … For him to have his moment where he could walk off and I mean, I think everyone in this country respects the hell out of him for what he’s done on and off the field and he’s an all-time great.

Brandon Aiyuk

On reaching 1,000 yards:

That’s what you think about when you train in the offseason, when you’re sitting at home throwing the ball up in the air as a kid on the bed.

On getting the No. 2 seed and the Eagles winning to clinch the No. 1:

That didn’t go our way but we still handled our own business and we’re excited to be able to get home games here.

On struggles early in the season vs. great offense now:

We were just looking for our flow, pretty much the how. How we were going to get it done. I think midway through the season, Week 7 or 8, after the bye week, we kind of settled in. Everybody understood their role, what we wanted to do as an offense.

On the team succeeding with transition to Garoppolo and to Purdy:

That’s a credit to those guys in the room, in the quarterback room and how they prepare.

Brock Purdy

On leading and being vocal:

I’m hard on myself so it starts with myself. I feel like I had to do my part and be better early on before I could say something to anyone else.

On the playoffs:

We’re at the point in the season where it’s, man, regular season is over and now the tournament starts and this is, you know, the real ball that really matters. Every single day is going to be vital in terms of getting better and being able to understand what our opponent’s going to be doing.

On how he’s feeling on the win streak:

I feel great. I feel like everyone’s feeling great when you’re on a roll, you’re on a winning streak. You feel like, man, you know, the groove and how you’re playing together. It feels real good when we’re playing on it. I think a lot of us are real with ourselves, too, though. I feel like we still haven’t played to our full potential.

On throwing while moving left:

Throwing on the run for me is part of my game so, if that’s going left, if that’s going right, it really don’t matter to me.

On getting guys back:

Once we’re all in rhythm and in sync, then I feel like we can play to our full potential.

On if the NFL is easier in some ways with surrounding talent:

I feel like the games are a little different. But right now it’s like man, I got so many playmakers around me, I feel like I don’t have all the weight in the world on my shoulders to make something up or plays.

Tashaun Gipson Sr.

On his interceptions:

We knew they was going to be aggressive by the way that they came out within the first couple of plays, so it was just one of those, you go up and attack the ball. But the second one when the ball was up there and man, it was up there for a minute. I kind of bobbled it a little bit — man, I wouldn’t have been able to live that down.

On coming off the street to start and contribute:

It’s so humbling … It’s my first time spending my birthday at home. I didn’t envision being at home on my birthday in August, so to be here now, man it’s just glory to God because I came in the right situation at the right time and everything just worked out.

On if he thinks his interceptions are divine intervention:

I’m a praying man, you know, honestly I wouldn’t be here without God, obviously. I guess you could say that, glory be to Him. The ball is finding me, so somehow some way I got to credit somebody.

Fred Warner

On feeling entering playoffs:

I feel amazing, honestly. It’s a blessing to make the playoffs and to have the opportunity that we have, seriously. I don’t know that I’ve had this feeling that I have right now about our team and the opportunity that we have to go win this thing. … We have some things obviously to clean up on defense, as with every week, but we have everything that we need on this team to do what we want to do this postseason.

On Damar Hamlin:

It was something that was on my mind and it was amazing to see all the love and support for Damar and the shirts, obviously, everybody’s wearing … so happy and so grateful that you know, the prayers are being heard and that he’s making a recovery like he is. I mean, it’s truly a miracle.

On the playoffs:

It’s a one-game season every week, and obviously now more than ever, that’s what this is, right, win or go home.

On thinking back to last loss:

It does feel like a long time, and we’ve gone through tons of stuff since then, seriously. Even though we have won every single one of those games, you look at ways that we’ve had to find to win through this 10-game stretch. It’s all about peaking at the right time and I feel like we’re doing that.

George Kittle

On connection with Purdy:

I could be punny and talk about Iowa but, you know, I think we’ve had all the plays that we’ve called it like designed to go to me. Brock’s done a great job … when the play breaks down, he does such a good job of keeping his eyes up and he always looks for me in the back of the end zone.

On the streak:

The 10-game win streak is awesome, it’s really fun. It means nothing now at this point. We know it got us in a position to secure the two-seed, so we get to play at home for two weeks.

On playing in a high-powered offense:

It’s awesome. It’s fun, more touchdowns for everybody. It’s been really fun and that’s to do with — our run game has been great. It opens up our pass game but Brock has been fantastic in the pass game. Aiyuk just got over 1,000 yards, which is awesome for him. … Brock has been very consistent for us and there hasn’t been really a weak link, especially when our o-line has been able to play together almost the entire year.

On facing teams in the playoffs:

They’re gonna give us their best shot and I know that we will be ready. We’re gonna give everybody our best shot and I know that our best shot is better than anyone else’s.

On his grandma’s day:

That was awesome, are you kidding me? First NFL game for my grandma, 100 years old on Friday, the stadium sings Happy Birthday to her, so shoutout to Levi’s Stadium. The Faithful are fantastic.

On pregame message from his grandma:

She said I looked really good and I was gonna have a great game today, so she’s gonna have to come to playoff games, too.

On the team’s turnaround:

We’re a completely different team than we were Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4. We got on a hot streak and then we’ve just been able to get better and better. Our defense has been fantastic throughout the entire year — they’ve kept us in every game.

On Watt:

When J.J. was at his peak, he was the most dominant player in football, like Aaron Donald, Nick Bosa, but even playing him now, you still have to game plan for him.

On Purdy:

When Brock came in against the Dolphins and took Cover Zero to the face and delivered, you kind of knew that you had a guy.

On Purdy:

You can just see his hunger. He’s disappointed in some of the plays he made today. He was talking about the game and he’s like, I just want to be better. So we win, like ‘Well, you’ve done a great job of winning so let’s just keep getting better.

Nick Bosa

On being taken out:

No, I talked to him early in the week and my main goal was to lead the league. We got a lot more important things to do so I’m just happy I got that and I think we were the No. 1 defense.

On takeaways:

It’s one of the No. 1 things. We have the ball meeting every Thursday. Nick Sorensen is our guy this year — he does the ball (meeting). Turnover margin, we looked at the stats in the meeting this week and every team that was in the top-10 takeaway margin teams are all playoff teams.

On J.J. Watt:

I talked to him after, just gave him my respect. I told him way to end on a two-piece, not a bad way to end it. I think it’s 12 on the year and to go on that note, I’m happy for him.

On the last loss:

It’s a long time ago but we’re going to be playing a lot of really good teams the next four games so we have to definitely lock in … It’s hard to keep the same grind and the same focus for 17 but when the playoffs come around, there’s a whole new energy and we gotta get everybody on board.

On energy entering the playoffs:

The mental grind that a season is, it wears on you, and then right when you get to the playoffs, you get a second wind.

On putting his helmet on late, whether he’d enter the game:

We were actually monitoring the Eagles and Hassan Reddick. He didn’t have any yet.

On shutting down outside life in playoffs:

I know that I won’t do anything different because I’ve been a hermit for quite some time … I sit on my couch and I fill my GameReady (recovery) machine with ice and I prop my legs up and watch some shows, and then I go to bed at 8:30 and wake up and get to work.

On Purdy:

He’s becoming a leader.