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We’re just one day away from Super Bowl LVIII. The Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers will meet in the final game of the 2023 NFL season Sunday night, with both teams vying for right to call themselves champions.
The defending champion Chiefs are looking for their third Super Bowl victory of the Patrick Mahomes era. They captured their first Lombardi Trophy against these 49ers four years ago in Super Bowl LIV, but this San Francisco team is a different beast than even that one, and is surely looking to exact revenge after watching Kansas City rally for a 31-20 win.
Which of these teams will win the Super Bowl in Las Vegas? We’ll find out soon enough. But before we break down the matchup, here’s a look at how you can watch the game.
How to watch Super Bowl LVIII
Date: Sunday, Feb. 11 | Time: 6:30 p.m. ETLocation: Allegiant Stadium (Las Vegas)TV: CBS, NickelodeonStream: Available via Paramount+ on all platforms, or sign in with your TV provider on CBS.com or CBS Sports apps
Halftime show: UsherOdds: 49ers -2, O/U 47.5 (via Sportsline consensus odds)
When the 49ers have the ball
The 49ers’ superpower as an offense is that they can get into a pretty standard personnel grouping and line up in all different sorts of formations, with players swapping roles and alignments with relative ease. When they have Christian McCaffrey, Kyle Juszczyk, George Kittle, Deebo Samuel and Brandon Aiyuk on the field together, they are technically in 21 personnel, but they can do just about anything — especially if the opponent matches with its base defense. What the Niners want to do more than anything is get you in personnel that matches their formation, then do the opposite of what you expect from them.
The Chiefs like to match those bigger personnel groupings with their base defense, but they do so with a group of linebackers that have very distinct roles. Whether they have Drue Tranquill (an attacking blitzer) or…
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Author : Jared Dubin
Publish date : 2024-02-10 23:43:43
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