I just dont get why anyone has to "be to blame". Jimmy played well. SF led late. KC won. It was a good game where the Chiefs offense proved to be better than the Niners D when it mattered most. Thats pretty much what most of us expected isnt it?
Hindsight is always 20/20. Its just exacerbated in the SB. Ultimately the best unit on the Niners had the game in their hands in the 4Q and they didnt get it done . As a SF fan youd take a 10 pt lead with 10 minutes left every time because youd expect your D to hold it. They didnt. Thats why they lost
I agree. However, when the game was on the line, JG played poorly. When you're up by 10 with that defense and the coach calls on you to make some plays to put a dagger in the opponent, you need to come through.
I totally agree. He messed up. Now he's blown leads in 2 Super Bowls.
Yeah, that is pretty much what I think too. We all knew going in what the Niners had to do and that was keep Mahomes and that offense on the sideline, especially late when they had the momentum swing. The defense looked pretty gassed with about 6 minutes left to me. As a coach, I rely on my bread and butter running game to seal the deal. I don't care about boring at that point but the simple fact is they only scored 20 points and you won't win many games let alone SBs with that. Last year being the anomoly, of course. Not really gonna blame it on any one thing but it all goes hand in hand. The Chiefs having 4 or 5? possessions in one quarter is playing with fire, imo. Even good defenses can't hold up.
That is a bad ratio for a run heavy team with an average at best QB but in fairness, probably 3/4 of those pass attempts were play action checkdowns, etc and yac so essentially glorified run plays.
Not at all, they were great, that last TD didn't matter, they held KC to 24 points that counted which was all they could be expected to. They couldn't score enough to win.
