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49ers overreactions: Fans vent over frustrating Super Bowl loss originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
The 49ers finished in second place in the NFL.
Thirty other teams failed to advance to the final game of the season, but that does not minimize the pain that 49ers players, coaches and fans will feel for a long, long time.
Who’s to blame for the 49ers’ 25-22 overtime loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LVIII?
The better question is … who’s to credit?
And the answers are Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City’s lockdown cornerbacks and, heck, their entire defense, as well as their coaching staff.
The Chiefs did what was necessary to win the game. They’ve done it before, and they will enter 2024 as one of the favorites to do it again.
But we realize that is not a satisfactory answer in this space. That’s why it’s time to vent in this final edition of 49ers Overreactions:
Kyle Shanahan reminds me of Bill Walsh’s comment of Steve DeBerg when he switched to Joe Montana: He’s just good enough to get you beat. We need to switch to a new head coach. (@kbhsilver)
Overreaction? Yes.
If the 49ers had advanced to four NFC Championship Games and two Super Bowls over a five-year period, I don’t think Walsh would have said that about DeBerg.
I can see the 49ers moving on from Kyle Shanahan only if Andy Reid is available and brings Mahomes with him.
We fully understand the uncontrollable urge to blame the head coach, but I don’t see it in this game.
Could the 49ers have run the ball more at the start of the second half? I suppose. They had three first-and-10 situations and they threw the ball on two of those. The run play was stopped for no yards.
The 49ers had success throwing on first downs in the first half. Their plan was to be balanced on first down and stay out of third-and-long situations in order to limit the effectiveness of Kansas City’s pressure packages on third downs, when everyone knew the 49ers had to throw.
But Kansas City’s corners did great jobs…
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Publish date : 2024-02-16 16:01:14
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