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The competition is ending, and there’s no competition whatsoever as to our final selections of the year.
Chris Simms and I both agree on the winner of Super Bowl LVIII: Kansas City Chiefs.
The picks were made at the live joint podcast from the Mandalay Bay sportsbook on Wednesday night. If you haven’t seen it, you should. If only to witness how well Chris performed while admittedly in the aftermath of the a little smoky-smoke and more than a little drinky-drink.
Sorry to everyone who believes the game will be rigged to deliver a victory to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce. Sorry to those who actually believe Swift and Kelce are part of a deep-state effort to rig the election. Sorry, most importantly, to 49ers fans who saw five Super Bowl wins in the first 29 installments of the game and are hoping for just one to cap the second 29 editions of it.
Last year, I believed that the Eagles were the better team, but that the Chiefs had Patrick Mahomes. So I picked the Chiefs.
This year, it’s the same feeling, except it’s not clear whether the 49ers are currently better. At one point in the season, it seemed as if the 49ers would steamroll anyone/everyone as long as their nucleus of key players remained healthy. The 49ers got their rude awakening on Christmas night at home against the Ravens, when Baltimore did to San Francisco what many (Mike Flores/Florist included) thought San Francisco would do to Baltimore.
The Chiefs also lost at home that day, to the Raiders. For Kansas City, it was a wake-up call that sparked an ascension. They beat the Bengals six days later and just kept getting better and better and better.
The 49ers, while able to gut out home playoff wins in dramatic, come-from-behind fashion, are still dog-paddling toward possibly being what they were, earlier in the year.
Can they get it back by Sunday? That’s the question.
Even if they can, will it be enough to overcome Mahomes, who is fixated (even if he won’t admit it) on catching Tom Brady’s seven Super Bowl…
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Author : ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports
Publish date : 2024-02-10 15:45:02
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