Gronk, Edelman outline how 49ers can win Super Bowl LVIII vs. Chiefs originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
Super Bowl-champion teammates Rob Gronkowski and Julian Edelman offered an outline of how the 49ers can defeat the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVIII on Sunday at Allegiant Stadium.
Speaking to NBC Sports Bay Area’s Jennifer Lee Chan on Friday on Radio Row in Las Vegas, Gronkowski and Edelman explained what the 49ers need to do on offense to beat the Chiefs.
“In order to beat the Kansas City Chiefs, their [49ers] superstars on the offensive side of the ball, they’re going to have to ball out,” Gronkowski told Chan.
“They have four guys over 1000 yards this year, all four of those guys are going to have to show up, a couple of them are going to have to go over 100 yards, maybe make an outrageous catch or two in the end zone because that Kansas City Chiefs defense is legit… But overall, San Francisco, if they want to win, they have to show up and play to their potential.”
Edelman echoed similar statements, pointing out how critical it will be for the 49ers’ run game with Christian McCaffrey to pick up positive yardage to open their play-action passing game and get the ball to George Kittle, Brandon Aiyuk, and Deebo Samuel.
“I think the Niners need to play the game they want to play, they’ve got to run the football, they’ve got to feed McCaffrey because if they can continue to do that and have a real productive run game that’s where that whole offense gets explosive with that play-action game, it’s where Brock Purdy can hit all his other targets, Kittle, Aiyuk, Deebo,” Edelman explained.
Edelman then went on to point out how deviating from the team’s strengths is what undid the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Championship Game against the Chiefs, where Kansas City’s defense got Baltimore out of sync on offense.
“I think it really comes down to playing the game you want to play,” Edelman added. “We saw last week in the AFC…
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Publish date : 2024-02-09 23:33:33
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