The Silver Fern

MajorRage

Flowers basically took it on himself to take the Ravens out of the game.

Which would normally be brilliant, apart from the fact that he plays for the Ravens.

I think it will take him some time to get over this.

canefan

Flowers basically took it on himself to take the Ravens out of the game.

Which would normally be brilliant, apart from the fact that he plays for the Ravens.

I think it will take him some time to get over this.

Two crucial brainfarts, a lesser player would get traded for shit like that

Duluth

Oh the superbowl is on

SF 3-0

Machpants

You mean the swift bowl?

Machpants

Going to over time, 12 sightings of swift in the coverage for normal time

nzzp

That was an epic game. Outstanding fun. Mahomes dragged them over the line.

49ers better team, but not quite enough

KiwiMurph

Heartbroken

They won't do it but if I was 49ers i'd fire Kyle Shanahan.

He isn't winning the big one. He doesn't have it in him.

Machpants

Dad Bod Mahomes bosses and wins it for the Chiefs

barbarian

You felt it coming in your bones when they went in to half time down by just 7.

It should have been 20+. Niners were all over them but just couldn't make the big plays they needed.

Mahomes, though. Really was a Patriots-esque season. They have a pretty shabby class of receivers, some key injuries, just holding things together with tape at times... and they win the Superbowl. And somehow they never really looked like winning the Superbowl at any point.

Bovidae

Mahomes just finds a way for his team to win.

Great outfit on Jason Kelce.

KiwiMurph

@barbarian said in NFL:

It should have been 20+. Niners were all over them but just couldn't make the big plays they needed.

Don't forget Shanahan abandoning the run in the 3rd quarter.

The guy outsmarts himself.

KiwiMurph

A lot of talk about Mahomes but the unsung guy on the Chiefs is Chris Jones the defensive lineman.

He makes so many big plays - he doesn't get mentioned as one of the best defensive players in the league but he should.

barbarian

@KiwiMurph said in NFL:

@barbarian said in NFL:

It should have been 20+. Niners were all over them but just couldn't make the big plays they needed.

Don't forget Shanahan abandoning the run in the 3rd quarter.

The guy outsmarts himself.

True, but I don't think that's unforgiveable. Chiefs clearly decided to put numbers into stopping the run.

Deebo was playing on one leg, the Greenlaw injury was a hammer blow... they probably could have found a way to involve Kittle a bit more but they came within a bees of winning the Superbowl, so it's hard to be too critical...

KiwiMurph

@barbarian said in NFL:

True, but I don't think that's unforgiveable. Chiefs clearly decided to put numbers into stopping the run.

So the alternative is to just fail for about 3 drives in a row by not running the ball?

The whole 49ers offense revolves around the run. McCaffrey is one of the top 3 best players in the League and Shanahan just abandoned him for nearly a whole quarter - they almost went the whole 3rd quarter without getting a first down. Which also puts pressure on the defense as they had to keep rolling out there.

barbarian

Yeah I certainly see your point. I'm just not sure in the alternate universe where they run it makes an enormous difference to the end result. I can't see them just gashing them like they had early on.

But these are all fun hypotheticals.

canefan

Moving forward they need to spend up big to take advantage of Purdy's modest rookie contract. Might need a new DC as well....

Cyclops

@KiwiMurph said in NFL:

@barbarian said in NFL:

True, but I don't think that's unforgiveable. Chiefs clearly decided to put numbers into stopping the run.

So the alternative is to just fail for about 3 drives in a row by not running the ball?

The whole 49ers offense revolves around the run. McCaffrey is one of the top 3 best players in the League and Shanahan just abandoned him for nearly a whole quarter - they almost went the whole 3rd quarter without getting a first down. Which also puts pressure on the defense as they had to keep rolling out there.

I think that was situational rather than tactical. The first two drives they got into a hole. The first drive it's an incomplete pass and a false start to be 2 and 15. The second chiefs get pressure early and the checkdown is caught deep behind the line of scrimmage so they're then at 2 and 18. The third drive they come up and try to run but the chiefs stuff it at the line of scrimmage so they're at 2 and 10 with the run just having failed.

The fourth drive the first pass is incomplete which means at 2 and 10 dialling up a run for McCaffrey is a more realistic option.

sparky

Droid rage?

mariner4life

3 boring quarters of defenses on top of unimaginative offence.
The whole game came alive 9n that punt turnover because the Chiefs score, and thr niners had to play.
4th quarter was awesome, and so was OT.

McCaffery was enormous in a losing effort

But Mahomes is a deadset freak and is the best player I have ever seen. He won that game. He threw the ball. He made big runs when needed. He did it. Off shit snap after shit snap. Phenom

You're not supposed to win this often in this league

Windows97

A captivating game more-so for the contest than the exciting offence.

KC kept in the game by unlikely suspects, their special teams blocking the extra point and their field kicker kicking two record breaking distance wise field goals kept them in the game. The wide receiver who got the touchdown was his first TD of the season

Feel sorry for San Fran, they really did enough to win, one freak special teams play that cost them the extra point is a tough way to lose, literally lost by a fingertip.

And how about that poor guy who got a game ending injury just running onto the field? Biggest game of his life ended like that? How unlucky.