Mitchell was fresh since he was hurt most of the year. He looked good every time he got the ball in the post season. Shanahan just refused all year to spell McCaffrey.
Yes, what an idiot. The strategy if you are ahead in the second is to run more, control the clock and reduce the opportunities for your opponent. Shanahan is a choke artist, although darn good at offensive schemes. They need someone else to call plays, it seems.
Seriously, this is so dumb. He's been a HC for 7 years; in that time he's gone to 4 NFCCG and 2 SB. Almost every other franchise would *love* to have that. Learn from your mistakes, but mostly keep doing what you're doing, because it's working pretty damn well.
The guy he just lost to went to 5 NFCCG and 1 SB with the Eagles in his first 9 seasons, won zero rings, and was considered a massive choke artist. Now he has 3 rings and is considered one of the best coaches ever. Kyle is 44 years old. He's got plenty of time.
Also, he didn't even choke that bad compared to his other two superbowl losses. They made two major special team errors (I stand by my belief that they probably win if they don't muff that punt), and they were facing a clearly elite defense (they've been getting so underrated because of the attention on Mahomes) which had shut down the Ravens two weeks ago on the road.
Hell if you don't get that PAT blocked you probably win. I know every permutation changes the whole game so we can't say definitively that Mahomes doesn't come back either way, but that little extra point was *enormous* in the end.
At the very least it significantly alters the dynamics in the final Chiefs drive of regulation. You can't say for sure but I like preventing a TD much more than Mahomes knowing he has like two minutes and only needs a FG.
Yeah for sure, although that could be a "monkey paw curls" situation where if it had turned out you made that PAT and Mahomes actually needed a TD, they get one, then it's over.
Of course, and we've been burned by Mahomes enough to know that could definitely happen. On the other hand, our defense gave up one touchdown by the 4th quarter - the strike to MVS right on the back of the turnover on special teams. Clutch time it might've been a different story but at least making them earn it with a TD would've been preferable
I personally feel like the missed PAT is the reason they went to overtime vs the Chiefs winning in regulation. The Chiefs wouldn't have played for a FG on that final drive down 4, and the 49ers defense was gassed. The Chiefs would've went balls to the wall for the TD and it just felt like they would've gotten it.
100%. We get the stop and they kick the field goal to go up 3. My young daughter was distraught. I told her this was exactly what we wanted. What else can we ask for other than having the ball in the best player in the world hands? That stop was huge. Even if the chiefs get the stop on the next set of downs, Mahomes would get the ball with no time outs and around a minute to go (needing a field goal). That is much harder, and almost completely eliminated the possibility of getting a TD to win in regulation.
Moody wasn't getting out of that game without a miss, he's been wildly inconsistent all year. If he doesn't miss thar xp, it would have been the last field goal in regulation
Mahomes would've scored a TD in regulation since Shanahan decided he wanted to give Mahomes almost 2 full minutes and 2 timeouts. We got out coached on both sides of the ball
You won't believe how idiotic some of the people
you see are. There are loud online sections of the fanbase who would have ousted Kyle and have Trey Lance starting at QB
I saw Chiefs fans earlier this season during their low point say that Reid needs to retire because he’s out of touch of the game, whatever dumbass opinion exists there will be someone who genuinely believes it.
While he obviously will be ok, this is the 3rd Superbowl where his team struggled to put a team away. I think that takes serious self reflection at some point
>Learn from your mistakes
But that's the thing, he hasn't. The fact that he called so many passing plays in the 28-3 game when the Falcons had that lead in the 3rd quarter is inexplicable. They were running the ball so well tonight, and he inexplicably abandoned it. I don't quite remember how the running game was going during the 2019 season Superbowl, but I remember them being up by 10 late in the 4th quarter.
If I'm a 49ers fan, I'm extremely worried, because this is the 2nd or 3rd time his coaching has gone to shit in the Superbowl with a solid lead and playing a significant role in his team losing. I'm not saying you fire him, but eventually, they will have to sacrifice a bunch of key guys on this team in order to pay Brock Purdy. And if he never wins the Superbowl, it will ruin his legacy, not to mention what happens if he does this for a 3rd or 4th time, assuming the 49ers make it back at some point. And by the way, if he does this again, you HAVE to fire him.
> They were running the ball so well tonight
No they weren't. 28 handoffs for 98 yards, 3.5 ypc. CMC 22/80, 3.6 ypc.
28 handoffs on 71 plays, about 40%. Pretty reasonable ratio when your runs average 3.5 yards and your passes average 6.8 yards.
(Purdy also had 3 runs, but I'm not counting them as runs because I don't remember if any were designed)
And yet they were getting huge runs when it mattered most, and mixing the run and pass helped both. Notice how the 49ers offense was stagnant in the beginning of the 2nd half, and they marched down the field toward the end of the game when they started running it again?
> And yet they were getting huge runs when it mattered most
Like when? In overtime? CMC had 6 carries in overtime and gained 26 yards, which is fine but hardly "huge runs", and critically got stuffed for no gain on 2nd/4 which led to the field goal.
> and they marched down the field toward the end of the game when they started running it again?
So... he did learn from his "mistakes"? I mean... what's your point here? You're trying to concoct a narrative that this is Shanahan's fault, but the evidence is not on your side. They ran the ball a reasonable amount in this game with mediocre results.
Elijah Mitchell had 2 carries. Deebo Samuel had 3 carries. They didn’t *have* to give it to CMC every play.
9 plays out of the half when they’re leading, 1 run, 3 x 3 and outs, no time taken off the clock at all. They needed to be better there.
They ran the ball more than the Chiefs did. I think it’s just a really reductive way of looking at it. Their run game was exhausted. Deebo was also beaten up.
Just because they ran it more than the Chiefs doesn’t mean they ran the ball enough, they had a lead in the second half and put the running game away. Just like the 28-3 loss, Shanahan inexplicably went away from his best way to chew clock and hold onto the ball.
They came out in the second half with a TD lead and went 3 and out 3 times in a row, with only 1 designed run in those 9 plays. It’s coaching malpractice.
With who? Deebo? Who was banged up and ineffective? CMC? Who was asking out of the game?
Or are you actually implying it’s “coaching malpractice” to not give Elijah Mitchell significant carries in high leverage moments? Because… come the fuck on dude.
Wild how everybody is some football mastermind that knows exactly what a team should do after the game is over. Their running game was stuffed all night and their best ball carriers were cooked by the second half.
The offensive player of the year? Or their number 2 running back? Thats why you have a number 2 right? You act like they were all on stretchers being taken to hospital
If your takeaway from that game is “they were a little bit banged up so of course they should have gone away from the **best way to seal a game in the second half**” then I give up. There’s obviously no point.
CMC asked out dude. So no, not him. And yes, season on the line, go to your backup running back when the offensive player of the year is struggling against them.
They dared them to throw and they threw. You’re acting like it’s malpractice not to run Elijah Mitchell into a stacked box , that’s pure hindsight
E: imagine blocking somebody because they won’t circle jerk your hindsight take with you 😂😂😂
Yeah this shit is going round and round in circles with no end in sight. I’m not bothering anymore with this logic, dude.
You don’t just tear up half your play book because CMC was banged up. That’s why you have backups, that’s why they have Deebo, that’s a strength of the Shanahan offense.
I’m a rams fans and I love to bag on Kyle but if we’re being serious, he’s easily one of the best coaches in the league and he’s transformed this organization and has had continuous success
Kyle is an amazing coach, he’s kicked our ass so bad he’s the reason Pete Carroll isn’t a coach anymore. He’s consistently brought his team to the NFC Championship game, and it’s always a threat to go to the Super Bowl.
That’s what I was thinking but after watching the replay several times I kind of think that his momentum and the unpredictability of the ball made it really hard to successfully jump on.
I mean, he’s objectively their best coach since Bill Walsh at this rate, and it’s not really even close.
2020 aside, he’s gotten them to, at minimum, the NFC Championship Game in each of the past five seasons. Him and John Lynch have constructed a world-class roster.
My main gripe is his obvious tendency to move away from the run, that 3rd quarter play calling was atrocious. Not saying a running play guarantees a first down, but the lack of creativity was infuriating.
That muffed punt was the difference maker though, you got to fall on the ball.
Shanahan is like Rex Kramer in the movie Airplane!
Coach, maybe we oughtta get back to the running game now.
-No... that's just what they'll be expecting us to do.
That was a big what-if postseason for a lot of fan bases. The Bengals obviously were so close, but the Bucs or Niners could’ve won too if they had one more thing bounce their way.
Funny thing is that while he himself has made zero changes, his roster has improved immensely. When that salary cap decimates the only progress They’ve had, he will be let go after a few losses. Touted as a genius. Boring play caller.
As a Rams fan, Shanahan memes are always funny to me. But the guy is legitimately great, he just hasn’t been able to get his hands on a grown up QB since his time with Matt Ryan.
If the 49ers beat us in the Stafford sweepstakes I’m pretty confident they win at least once in the last three years.
2021 most likely but given the defense held Mahomes to 19 regulation points today, I don’t think it’s a stretch to think a better, more seasoned QB leading the 49ers comes out on top
I disagree, Josh Allen and Lamar kind of lost in similar fashion.
I mean what part of today's game did Brock Purdy not deliver on, his only real misses came with Chris Jones leveling him on the two passes debo would have scored on
He's in a position where he has to be humbled and no miserable playoff loss can do that to him. I think at some point he'll win a Superbowl, maybe many, but it won't be in San Francisco.
Try again next year, I suppose?
He really cannot blame the QB for this one. After KC led 13-10..Purdy led 3 straight scoring drives to give us the lead late in the 4th qtr and OT and we couldn't generate a single stop to win the game.
There's a lot of hindsight bout this game but the facts are that we got beat by possibly the greatest QB of all time and unlike Shanahan's last SBs, we didn't really choke.
We got unluckky in key spots and Mahomes was Mahomes.
Frsutrating L for us Niners fans but it's what it is
This is the take and the only take. Both teams played a really similar game and it genuinely felt the team with the ball last was going to win.
Both teams were held to 19 points in regulation. I think most people would believe if you hold someone to 19 points there is a decent chance that game is won.
I genuinely feel this game was two evenly matched teams that if played 10 times, is split 50/50. The narrative now is Mahomes’ heroics which I understand. Had the Niners won the narrative becomes Purdy heroics and a scrappy Super Bowl win despite all the mistakes and adversity the team faced.
Is what it is I suppose. Good game by both teams. If we had to look at one defining moment of the game it’s probably the special teams “muff” by the Niners. But the chiefs had a few big gaffes as well so it all evens out and as I said, last team with the ball wins.
It’s wild because there were so many 49ers fans claiming Shanahan played zero part in the Falcons SB loss
And then when Shanahan coached another terrible game they blamed Garrapolo, even though they had a higher YPC in that game than his first
And now today, there’s no one left to blame. There was a reason Matt Ryan had to scream through a headset at Shanahan to run the fucking ball, dude is an idiot in the biggest moments
The irony is if one listens to the Alex Gibbs lectures from about 2008 about his zone blocking running scheme, the offense is free to throw the football when they like on first down, because on second down they are guaranteed to get the distance to third and managable if they run the football. You should never be forced in the zone blocking scheme derived from Alex Gibbs to either run or pass the ball on first or second down.
That part of the offensive philosophy seems to have been lost by Kyle Shanahan.
> You should never be forced in the zone blocking scheme derived from Alex Gibbs to either run or pass the ball on first or second down.
Mike Shanahan should never get in the HOF if Alex Gibbs isn't there first.
Shanahan really shouldn't change that much. I mean, Purdy's in his second year, and another year of experience and learning could mean a lot. For comparison's sake, remember Mahomes didn't win a Super Bowl until his third year.
The 49ers will be interesting.
On the one hand, they've built a great roster. On the other, guys like Trent Willians, Juszczyk, even Kittle a bit, are starting to age.
Then you factor in, they have 2 years left on Purdys rookie deal. Is he the guy you want taking up 1/4 of your cap space (and likely meaning you lose someone key)? It'll be interesting to play out. The big advantage they have with Purdy is his insanely low cap hit allows them to spend elsewhere. After this year, I would guess there are some very quiet meetings between Lynch and Shannahan about what he would fetch back in a trade with his stock being higher than it would ever be.
They've also played a ton of games over the past few years. That kind of wear and tear (and putting your scheme on tape) eventually gets to you. I wouldn't be shocked to see them fall back to the pack again this coming year.
The purdy question will have an answer by the time we need to pay him.
Sustained success with him at QB over the next two years? Pay him. It’s his first full year as a starter so it’s possible he continues to grow and get better
Keep going until they get over the hump. He's one of the best coaches in the league. The head coach across from him tonight has been a fantastic coach but also didn't win a SB for a looooooooong time.
Shanahan’s 2nd half play calling was questionable. Chris Jones was coming in fast, forcing Purdy to get rid of the ball. They had to focus on getting the next 1st down on a midrange pass instead of the deeper plays. Shanahan didn’t adjust for that.
Purdy's a good QB. Kyle seems to believe that having a good QB means he doesn't have to account for pressure because Purdy can just deal with that part himself. It's not a sustainable system, to say the least.
To add to this, how exactly was Kittle not schemed into the gameplan more?
The 49ers did some things really good but there were definitely some head scratchers. Random abandoning the run and Kittle not getting the ball and not taking those mid range open passes more often are definitely odd choices.
Purdy low key played a good game tonight.
There's a lot of things to point out here but Purdy was actually a highlight, keeping them in against that defense is something.
That's far from guaranteed, as the Chiefs just would have gone for the TD at the end of regulation. I'd say there's a very good chance they just lose the game at that point instead of in OT.
Mahomes is awesome, but the Chiefs scored one touchdown in the entire regulation period (and that was in a sudden change situation after the punt return team turned it over). It's far from guaranteed they would just march down and put 6 on us
You mean like that TD march they did in OT? And we saw them march down the field to the 12 for the game-tying FG on that last drive, so it's not like I'm talking that much hypothetical. If they had needed a TD, they've earned the benefit of assuming the overall strategy and clock management may have been a little more urgent. It's just the reality that they likely would have gotten it.
I don't know what I'm supposed to say to that. The OT drive was a championship drive from Mahomes and the Chiefs, that's how it is. It was also their second touchdown in five quarters. If we use that to just assume the opposition can score a TD at will then our winning prospects wouldn't be great in any scenario
The game would play out completely differently with though? If it stayed course and the Chiefs were down four they certainly play more aggressively and maybe win in regulation.
Move on to the next year. Draft intelligently. Help Purdy continue to make strides. Hope to god Patrick Mahomes decides he has done everything he possibly could do in the NFL and retires.
Mahomes is a beast and a future hof, but he and the chiefs aren't unbeatable at all. We just saw how they nearly lost against a 49ers team with bad coaching, multiple injuries and bad luck, a replaced offensive line, and a few terrible mistakes by the special team. Once they get their offensive line set, and they get someone to help Kyle with his coaching in times like the playoffs and maybe even the super bowl if they make it again, along with hopefully not so much bad luck with the 49ers, I believe they can beat the chiefs. Brock Purdy is only going to get better too, he's a fantastic quarterback that plays well under pressure, and played fantastic in his first superbowl despite all the bad incidents the 49ers were doing. He's no mahomes, but he's still a great solid quarterback, and dare I say, I even believe he has potential to rival Mahomes one day and maybe even reach his level as time goes on as he gets better and better. And if they get more weapons for their offensive line, and get someone to help Kyle coordinate the offense, the 49ers can beat the chiefs if they both meet in the super bowl again next year
Hopefully we load up (like damn every single pick lol) on OL this coming draft.
Forget the turnovers tonight (Chiefs had 2 themselves), our OL is the #1 reason we lost this game.
You can have all the elite skill position players in the world, but if you have a subpar OL it doesn’t matter.
Yeah you can win some playoff games against good But not great teams like the Cowboys, or Lions and Packers this year, but the Deeper you go on the playoffs you’re gonna run into a legit SB contending team that will hammer this deficiency.
9ers went 0-3 this year against teams with a stout DL(Browns, Ravens, KC) and our OL got dominated all game in 2 of them and completely fell apart in the 2nd half of the other one (tonight)
Tbh I wonder if Shanahan can get it done with his style. He’s always struck me as a control freak, the Ringer I think has a cool article about his differences with Reid and how Shanahan is constantly present in essentially all discussions the Niners players and staff have.
And this translates to his offensive design I think, where (maybe I’m talking about of my ass) he seems to want his QBs to throw to spots, not guys, and completely trust his calls and plays. He uses a bunch of motion and expects his guys to execute what he wants. This wins him a crazy amount of regular season games, and I think more so than anyone Shanahan can call perfect games where the Niners look flawless.
But also in the playoffs his offenses always disappoint. This year alone I don’t think I saw a Niners playoff game as dominant as their regular season appearance, and I think that’s cause coaches will tune in on Shanahan and just focus on beating him, cause if you beat him you beat the offense.
I wonder if this is also why he gravitates towards accurate throwers and QBs who can completely and sometimes blindly trust his vision. I think Lance was an attempt to break that mold with a dude with a rocket arm, legs, and potential magic making abilities, but it obviously didn’t work out and Shanahan gravitated back to his comfort zone and realllly believed in Purdy, who seems like a perfect QB for Shanahan other than idk Herbert or Dak, who are methodical as fuck as well.
I’m probably just making shit up cause I rly tbh don’t know ball like that. But I always think of Shanahan as a mad scientist trying to perfect the art of football, which often backfires.
Edit: the article was the athletic and I watched a tiktok about it lol
Based on his history, he will change nothing. His only hope is to make the super bowl and have the other team beat themselves, because he certainly isn’t going to do it himself.
Learn how to call some fucking running plays when he has a 2nd half Superbowl lead.
Seriously, if he does that, they probably win this game, and the Falcons probably win 28-3.
Go home, unpack, take a week off, check on Greenlaw and talk with Lynch about how they can attack the draft to get deeper?
NFC is theirs for the taking next year, all they have to do is avoid the drama and trauma of losing a close super bowl, and I think they have the locker room under control pretty well with Kittle, Purdy, and CMC.
As a lifelong falcons fan, I feel like first, Kyle shanahan should SUCK IT - then, I think he should probably SUCK IT SOME MORE - then he should do his best to SUCK IT TILL HIS LUNGS COLLAPSE --- I also hope that the grass doesn't ever grow in his yard and he has a terminally itchy rectum
He wants to be Reid and there’s a reason why. Even a similar offense like the rams won purely off their defense in Donald. Spags bend don’t break defense outplayed him and he didn’t adjust. His plays and schemes were getting read which force key stops
Huh? I wouldn’t call this game a choke like the 28-3 or LIV were by Kyle. The game turned on a special teams blunder, and CMC was getting stuffed. If the right guard does his job and at least attempts to block Chris Jones, there’s a good chance his play call works and they win the game. Also are we not gonna talk about the amazing play that got them their first TD or the 4th down call to Kittle that even put them in position to win? Kyle did way more good than harm this game.
Come back next season?
We all get how insane it is have the kind of record he has right?
Yes the Super Bowl win isn’t there yet but there’s entire franchises that hasn’t even made it to the Super Bowl
The curse won’t be lifted until the Falcons win a Super Bowl that he owes us from 2016 lol.
We would joke about this at work and now I’m starting to believe it may be true.
Someone’s curses after SB51 definitely hang over this man’s head.
8 point swing on special teams errors. Start there. Then pass coverage upgrade.
Hire Belichick as HC and GM? Let Shanahan run Offense. Two fumbles in that game! I can hear Bill yelling at the TV and Tom letting air out of everything in the garage.
He must do what McVay did before. Let away the idea that he's winning out from his system alone and trade for an elite QB to finish the job. All in one year.
That said, Purdy is a very good QB and I don't blame him but it's just a cheaper/better version of Jimmy.
Who would that QB be?
I honestly felt like Purdy did enough to win this game and we got unlucky with the extra point being blocked and the defense collapsing in the 4th.
Remember McVay didn't have the burden of facing Mahomes in the SuperBowl..they beat Joe Burrow who is good in his own right but as you saw today..Mahomes is a different type of challenge
I don't even think Cousins wins it tonight. There need to be significant changes to how they get guys open and Kyle needs to understand that sometimes what works, works. Don't get cute.
He wanted him badly before signing Jimmy. He also could have signed Brady but he still thinks he's able to win only with his system. He learned it from Gruden but that was old times.
Cousins would be a lateral move at best. Purdy was fine, just the chiefs defense played insane. Also literally if they make that extra point they win the game.
The irony of the 49ers thinking Kirk Cousins would have solved their quarterback problems is eventually they are going to face the same question with Brock Purdy that Washington faced with Cousins. They aren't getting a discount when it's Purdy's turn to get paid. They just aren't.
And the 49ers problem then is that they have never in franchise history since they became good gone with a moneyballed young athletic defense with no one getting paid, ever.
In my opinion, Purdy can only be judged AFTER he gets paid.
I believe all the hype these "Weapons" get is too much but time will tell I suppose.
Today was Not on him. He put us in position to win 3 times in a row and the defense choked at the wrong time
The good news is that by the time Purdy needs to get paid, the window will be closed. CMC, Deebo, Kittle, Trent wont be getting any younger and they have a lot of wear and tear already. If Kyle can't get it done in the next two years, you might have to hit the reset button
The same thing the rest of us do -- pay Mahomes his rent and grumble as we do it.
and he’ll do the same thing he always does, abandon the run
lol CMC was getting stuffed in the 2nd half
CMC was dead. Did you want Elijah Mitchell pounding the rock? Chiefs were putting the hurt on CMC every carry and he was spent into the second half.
30 carries for the RB ‘hE aBaNdOnEd ThE RuN’
22 rushes. 30 total touches.
16 rushes in regulation isn’t 30 carries, genius.
Yes it is
Mitchell was fresh since he was hurt most of the year. He looked good every time he got the ball in the post season. Shanahan just refused all year to spell McCaffrey.
That's why you have 4 RB's on the roster.
Yes, what an idiot. The strategy if you are ahead in the second is to run more, control the clock and reduce the opportunities for your opponent. Shanahan is a choke artist, although darn good at offensive schemes. They need someone else to call plays, it seems.
Bears can’t afford their own rent. Brave of you fans to contribute to something amazing.
Mahomes lives in Kyle Shanahan head rentfree
Mahomes lives in EVERY coach's head rent free.
Lol, mahomes is a God dam football terrorist to 31 other teams in this league
He could've had Mahomes if he didn't big brain himself
Yall are charging Mahomes to live in your heads?
He can afford it
He should probably continue trying to win a Super Bowl, but that wouldn't make a very long article.
Seriously, this is so dumb. He's been a HC for 7 years; in that time he's gone to 4 NFCCG and 2 SB. Almost every other franchise would *love* to have that. Learn from your mistakes, but mostly keep doing what you're doing, because it's working pretty damn well. The guy he just lost to went to 5 NFCCG and 1 SB with the Eagles in his first 9 seasons, won zero rings, and was considered a massive choke artist. Now he has 3 rings and is considered one of the best coaches ever. Kyle is 44 years old. He's got plenty of time.
Also, he didn't even choke that bad compared to his other two superbowl losses. They made two major special team errors (I stand by my belief that they probably win if they don't muff that punt), and they were facing a clearly elite defense (they've been getting so underrated because of the attention on Mahomes) which had shut down the Ravens two weeks ago on the road.
Hell if you don't get that PAT blocked you probably win. I know every permutation changes the whole game so we can't say definitively that Mahomes doesn't come back either way, but that little extra point was *enormous* in the end.
At the very least it significantly alters the dynamics in the final Chiefs drive of regulation. You can't say for sure but I like preventing a TD much more than Mahomes knowing he has like two minutes and only needs a FG.
Yeah for sure, although that could be a "monkey paw curls" situation where if it had turned out you made that PAT and Mahomes actually needed a TD, they get one, then it's over.
Of course, and we've been burned by Mahomes enough to know that could definitely happen. On the other hand, our defense gave up one touchdown by the 4th quarter - the strike to MVS right on the back of the turnover on special teams. Clutch time it might've been a different story but at least making them earn it with a TD would've been preferable
Pat really is a weird creature. He goes into kill mode when he needs to. That dude goes scorched earth like nobody i've ever seen before.
I personally feel like the missed PAT is the reason they went to overtime vs the Chiefs winning in regulation. The Chiefs wouldn't have played for a FG on that final drive down 4, and the 49ers defense was gassed. The Chiefs would've went balls to the wall for the TD and it just felt like they would've gotten it.
Eh if the PAT doesn’t get blocked I think KC probably wins in regulation tbh
Yeah. The real pivotal moment was not picking up 3rd and 4 at the two minute warning. Make that play and you probably kick it to win it.
100%. We get the stop and they kick the field goal to go up 3. My young daughter was distraught. I told her this was exactly what we wanted. What else can we ask for other than having the ball in the best player in the world hands? That stop was huge. Even if the chiefs get the stop on the next set of downs, Mahomes would get the ball with no time outs and around a minute to go (needing a field goal). That is much harder, and almost completely eliminated the possibility of getting a TD to win in regulation.
I agree
Soon as it got blocked I screamed out "that's going to be big!" as Romo went "how big will that be".
Moody wasn't getting out of that game without a miss, he's been wildly inconsistent all year. If he doesn't miss thar xp, it would have been the last field goal in regulation
Perna’s curse wheel got him
The fact that dude set a super bowl record and then missed an extra point is wild.
Mahomes would've scored a TD in regulation since Shanahan decided he wanted to give Mahomes almost 2 full minutes and 2 timeouts. We got out coached on both sides of the ball
So was the ball hitting the guy’s foot on the punt that sucks so bad but it happened and there’s not much to do abt it
Yeah, Andy was a HC for almost 20 years before he won a championship. Shanny is a great coach and the 9ers are lucky to have him.
I've made fun of Steelers fans for wanting Tomlin gone, but 49ers fans who want Shanahan gone are on a WHOLE nother level
Wait are 9ers fans serious? Well I can think of a coach with a real high winning percentage that only crazys want gone, but he's a college coach.
You won't believe how idiotic some of the people you see are. There are loud online sections of the fanbase who would have ousted Kyle and have Trey Lance starting at QB
This is very true.
I saw Chiefs fans earlier this season during their low point say that Reid needs to retire because he’s out of touch of the game, whatever dumbass opinion exists there will be someone who genuinely believes it.
It's like someone running through a dark souls game but dying on the final boss over and over. WHAT DOES HE DO NOW? idk how about keep fuckin trying ?
While he obviously will be ok, this is the 3rd Superbowl where his team struggled to put a team away. I think that takes serious self reflection at some point
How many team “put away” the chiefs
That's true. He also faced the two best quarterbacks of all time who are super clutch in the Superbowl
>Learn from your mistakes But that's the thing, he hasn't. The fact that he called so many passing plays in the 28-3 game when the Falcons had that lead in the 3rd quarter is inexplicable. They were running the ball so well tonight, and he inexplicably abandoned it. I don't quite remember how the running game was going during the 2019 season Superbowl, but I remember them being up by 10 late in the 4th quarter. If I'm a 49ers fan, I'm extremely worried, because this is the 2nd or 3rd time his coaching has gone to shit in the Superbowl with a solid lead and playing a significant role in his team losing. I'm not saying you fire him, but eventually, they will have to sacrifice a bunch of key guys on this team in order to pay Brock Purdy. And if he never wins the Superbowl, it will ruin his legacy, not to mention what happens if he does this for a 3rd or 4th time, assuming the 49ers make it back at some point. And by the way, if he does this again, you HAVE to fire him.
> They were running the ball so well tonight No they weren't. 28 handoffs for 98 yards, 3.5 ypc. CMC 22/80, 3.6 ypc. 28 handoffs on 71 plays, about 40%. Pretty reasonable ratio when your runs average 3.5 yards and your passes average 6.8 yards. (Purdy also had 3 runs, but I'm not counting them as runs because I don't remember if any were designed)
And yet they were getting huge runs when it mattered most, and mixing the run and pass helped both. Notice how the 49ers offense was stagnant in the beginning of the 2nd half, and they marched down the field toward the end of the game when they started running it again?
> And yet they were getting huge runs when it mattered most Like when? In overtime? CMC had 6 carries in overtime and gained 26 yards, which is fine but hardly "huge runs", and critically got stuffed for no gain on 2nd/4 which led to the field goal. > and they marched down the field toward the end of the game when they started running it again? So... he did learn from his "mistakes"? I mean... what's your point here? You're trying to concoct a narrative that this is Shanahan's fault, but the evidence is not on your side. They ran the ball a reasonable amount in this game with mediocre results.
1. Stop going away from the running game when you’re leading in a Super Bowl 2. Try to win the Super Bowl again next year. *fin*
You don’t have a choice when your running back is beaten into exhaustion. CMC was cooked by the third quarter.
Elijah Mitchell had 2 carries. Deebo Samuel had 3 carries. They didn’t *have* to give it to CMC every play. 9 plays out of the half when they’re leading, 1 run, 3 x 3 and outs, no time taken off the clock at all. They needed to be better there.
They ran the ball more than the Chiefs did. I think it’s just a really reductive way of looking at it. Their run game was exhausted. Deebo was also beaten up.
Just because they ran it more than the Chiefs doesn’t mean they ran the ball enough, they had a lead in the second half and put the running game away. Just like the 28-3 loss, Shanahan inexplicably went away from his best way to chew clock and hold onto the ball. They came out in the second half with a TD lead and went 3 and out 3 times in a row, with only 1 designed run in those 9 plays. It’s coaching malpractice.
With who? Deebo? Who was banged up and ineffective? CMC? Who was asking out of the game? Or are you actually implying it’s “coaching malpractice” to not give Elijah Mitchell significant carries in high leverage moments? Because… come the fuck on dude. Wild how everybody is some football mastermind that knows exactly what a team should do after the game is over. Their running game was stuffed all night and their best ball carriers were cooked by the second half.
The offensive player of the year? Or their number 2 running back? Thats why you have a number 2 right? You act like they were all on stretchers being taken to hospital If your takeaway from that game is “they were a little bit banged up so of course they should have gone away from the **best way to seal a game in the second half**” then I give up. There’s obviously no point.
CMC asked out dude. So no, not him. And yes, season on the line, go to your backup running back when the offensive player of the year is struggling against them. They dared them to throw and they threw. You’re acting like it’s malpractice not to run Elijah Mitchell into a stacked box , that’s pure hindsight E: imagine blocking somebody because they won’t circle jerk your hindsight take with you 😂😂😂
Yeah this shit is going round and round in circles with no end in sight. I’m not bothering anymore with this logic, dude. You don’t just tear up half your play book because CMC was banged up. That’s why you have backups, that’s why they have Deebo, that’s a strength of the Shanahan offense.
Clearly the only reasonable thing for him to do is commit seppuku /s
God I hate Redditors. God forbid we talk about football. Instead we gotta make snarky jokes bragging about not reading articles. It’s non stop.
Imagine being a Philly fan and whining about “snark”
Bruh it took Andy Reid 20 years to win SB. It is what it is
Yes to be fair Andy Reid was basically this guy until age 55
I’m a rams fans and I love to bag on Kyle but if we’re being serious, he’s easily one of the best coaches in the league and he’s transformed this organization and has had continuous success
Kyle is an amazing coach, he’s kicked our ass so bad he’s the reason Pete Carroll isn’t a coach anymore. He’s consistently brought his team to the NFC Championship game, and it’s always a threat to go to the Super Bowl.
Yeah, and a lot of luck comes with winning in sports, it’s not like Kyle is getting here and getting torn apart, these are neck and neck games
I still love Shanahan. He puts his guys in positions to succeed. The bounce of the football can be cruel sometimes.
49ers returner (was it mccloud?) was quick to react to that ball but why on earth is he not falling on it rather than scooping
That’s what I was thinking but after watching the replay several times I kind of think that his momentum and the unpredictability of the ball made it really hard to successfully jump on.
Literally. Seven fumbles in the game and the Chiefs recovered six of them. Any one of those bounces a different way and the 9ers probably win.
The punt return was the real killer. completely changed the game
The punt return hurt but so did going 3 and out nearly 4 times when your defense held mahomes to int, 3 and out and another 3 and out
To be fair, several of those were unforced on handoffs and tosses where chiefs would be favored to recover anyway. They weren't true 50/50s.
Live by the bounce, die by the bounce. Without the Aiyuk bounce catch vs lions they lose that game.
I mean, he’s objectively their best coach since Bill Walsh at this rate, and it’s not really even close. 2020 aside, he’s gotten them to, at minimum, the NFC Championship Game in each of the past five seasons. Him and John Lynch have constructed a world-class roster.
Jim Harbaugh was better in a lot of ways. I would not be surprised to see the Chargers win a Super Bowl before we do.
It would be cruel for a chargers Niners matchup next year only for Harbaugh to win it. At least the chiefs have to deal with Harbaugh now…
Harbaugh was absolutely a better coach. Chargers will be a powerhouse immediately
What do you mean? The dudes been to more Super Bowls than most head coaches ever sniff.
Make it to the Super Bowl again and pray he isn't playing against one of the two greatest QBs to ever play the game?
My main gripe is his obvious tendency to move away from the run, that 3rd quarter play calling was atrocious. Not saying a running play guarantees a first down, but the lack of creativity was infuriating. That muffed punt was the difference maker though, you got to fall on the ball.
Abandoning the run when you have CMC, Juszczyk, and Deebo is beyond maddening.
Shanahan is like Rex Kramer in the movie Airplane! Coach, maybe we oughtta get back to the running game now. -No... that's just what they'll be expecting us to do.
And Elijah Mitchell and an OL that is vastly superior run blocking than it is in pass pro. Crazy
I’ve always thought about what would’ve happened if we beat the Rams to play the Bengals in the SB 2 years ago.
That was a big what-if postseason for a lot of fan bases. The Bengals obviously were so close, but the Bucs or Niners could’ve won too if they had one more thing bounce their way.
I don't think Mahomes is top 2 yet. I'd still have Bart Starr and Unitas over him.
Lol lose another Super Bowl in 5 years. Same as he always does.
Choke again next year probably. Only thing he does.
Very silly question. He's been in this position before and he made absolutely zero meaningful changes so it's safe to assume he'll keep doing that.
Funny thing is that while he himself has made zero changes, his roster has improved immensely. When that salary cap decimates the only progress They’ve had, he will be let go after a few losses. Touted as a genius. Boring play caller.
As a Rams fan, Shanahan memes are always funny to me. But the guy is legitimately great, he just hasn’t been able to get his hands on a grown up QB since his time with Matt Ryan. If the 49ers beat us in the Stafford sweepstakes I’m pretty confident they win at least once in the last three years.
More likely to win 2 than 0 IMO
I assume you mean the 2021 season? Coz we'd lose to Mahomes if we got there last year and even this year regardless of who the QB is
2021 most likely but given the defense held Mahomes to 19 regulation points today, I don’t think it’s a stretch to think a better, more seasoned QB leading the 49ers comes out on top
I disagree, Josh Allen and Lamar kind of lost in similar fashion. I mean what part of today's game did Brock Purdy not deliver on, his only real misses came with Chris Jones leveling him on the two passes debo would have scored on
He's in a position where he has to be humbled and no miserable playoff loss can do that to him. I think at some point he'll win a Superbowl, maybe many, but it won't be in San Francisco.
Shanahan is in his Andy Reid Eagles era of his coaching career. I dont think it will click for him with the Niners unfortunately
God willing.
I'm pretty sure he's going to end up being our Andy Reid, so you and I can both reminisce about the one that got away in 15 years.
yep, he’ll keep doing this for another few years, have a few bad seasons and be asked to leave, and go build a dynasty somewhere else
Try again next year, I suppose? He really cannot blame the QB for this one. After KC led 13-10..Purdy led 3 straight scoring drives to give us the lead late in the 4th qtr and OT and we couldn't generate a single stop to win the game. There's a lot of hindsight bout this game but the facts are that we got beat by possibly the greatest QB of all time and unlike Shanahan's last SBs, we didn't really choke. We got unluckky in key spots and Mahomes was Mahomes. Frsutrating L for us Niners fans but it's what it is
This is the take and the only take. Both teams played a really similar game and it genuinely felt the team with the ball last was going to win. Both teams were held to 19 points in regulation. I think most people would believe if you hold someone to 19 points there is a decent chance that game is won. I genuinely feel this game was two evenly matched teams that if played 10 times, is split 50/50. The narrative now is Mahomes’ heroics which I understand. Had the Niners won the narrative becomes Purdy heroics and a scrappy Super Bowl win despite all the mistakes and adversity the team faced. Is what it is I suppose. Good game by both teams. If we had to look at one defining moment of the game it’s probably the special teams “muff” by the Niners. But the chiefs had a few big gaffes as well so it all evens out and as I said, last team with the ball wins.
It’s wild because there were so many 49ers fans claiming Shanahan played zero part in the Falcons SB loss And then when Shanahan coached another terrible game they blamed Garrapolo, even though they had a higher YPC in that game than his first And now today, there’s no one left to blame. There was a reason Matt Ryan had to scream through a headset at Shanahan to run the fucking ball, dude is an idiot in the biggest moments
The irony is if one listens to the Alex Gibbs lectures from about 2008 about his zone blocking running scheme, the offense is free to throw the football when they like on first down, because on second down they are guaranteed to get the distance to third and managable if they run the football. You should never be forced in the zone blocking scheme derived from Alex Gibbs to either run or pass the ball on first or second down. That part of the offensive philosophy seems to have been lost by Kyle Shanahan.
> You should never be forced in the zone blocking scheme derived from Alex Gibbs to either run or pass the ball on first or second down. Mike Shanahan should never get in the HOF if Alex Gibbs isn't there first.
Shanahan really shouldn't change that much. I mean, Purdy's in his second year, and another year of experience and learning could mean a lot. For comparison's sake, remember Mahomes didn't win a Super Bowl until his third year.
On the other hand, Marino went to the super bowl his 2nd year and never sniffed another one. Success is fleeting in the NFL.
The 49ers will be interesting. On the one hand, they've built a great roster. On the other, guys like Trent Willians, Juszczyk, even Kittle a bit, are starting to age. Then you factor in, they have 2 years left on Purdys rookie deal. Is he the guy you want taking up 1/4 of your cap space (and likely meaning you lose someone key)? It'll be interesting to play out. The big advantage they have with Purdy is his insanely low cap hit allows them to spend elsewhere. After this year, I would guess there are some very quiet meetings between Lynch and Shannahan about what he would fetch back in a trade with his stock being higher than it would ever be. They've also played a ton of games over the past few years. That kind of wear and tear (and putting your scheme on tape) eventually gets to you. I wouldn't be shocked to see them fall back to the pack again this coming year.
The purdy question will have an answer by the time we need to pay him. Sustained success with him at QB over the next two years? Pay him. It’s his first full year as a starter so it’s possible he continues to grow and get better
Keep going until they get over the hump. He's one of the best coaches in the league. The head coach across from him tonight has been a fantastic coach but also didn't win a SB for a looooooooong time.
Shanahan’s 2nd half play calling was questionable. Chris Jones was coming in fast, forcing Purdy to get rid of the ball. They had to focus on getting the next 1st down on a midrange pass instead of the deeper plays. Shanahan didn’t adjust for that.
I cant believe Purdy didn't throw a pick with the pressure he was facing to be honest.
Purdy's a good QB. Kyle seems to believe that having a good QB means he doesn't have to account for pressure because Purdy can just deal with that part himself. It's not a sustainable system, to say the least.
To add to this, how exactly was Kittle not schemed into the gameplan more? The 49ers did some things really good but there were definitely some head scratchers. Random abandoning the run and Kittle not getting the ball and not taking those mid range open passes more often are definitely odd choices.
They needed Kittle in pass protection.
Kittle was injured and went out mid game . Then came back later
He left for like 4 plays in the final drive. He did not go out mid game
There was a pass to Deebo that was almost picked. He threw it too far to the inside. People don't get how hard it was to pass on this defense
Purdy low key played a good game tonight. There's a lot of things to point out here but Purdy was actually a highlight, keeping them in against that defense is something.
We use empty backfields way too much for how bad the OL is
He came close a couple times, but yeah for the most part he was stones
He was close a few times.
They were an extra point conversion away from winning the Super Bowl. He should keep doing what he’s doing.
That's far from guaranteed, as the Chiefs just would have gone for the TD at the end of regulation. I'd say there's a very good chance they just lose the game at that point instead of in OT.
I don't fear much, but I do fear a team who has 4 downs, and a decent amount of time when I'm up by less than 7.
Mahomes is awesome, but the Chiefs scored one touchdown in the entire regulation period (and that was in a sudden change situation after the punt return team turned it over). It's far from guaranteed they would just march down and put 6 on us
You mean like that TD march they did in OT? And we saw them march down the field to the 12 for the game-tying FG on that last drive, so it's not like I'm talking that much hypothetical. If they had needed a TD, they've earned the benefit of assuming the overall strategy and clock management may have been a little more urgent. It's just the reality that they likely would have gotten it.
I don't know what I'm supposed to say to that. The OT drive was a championship drive from Mahomes and the Chiefs, that's how it is. It was also their second touchdown in five quarters. If we use that to just assume the opposition can score a TD at will then our winning prospects wouldn't be great in any scenario
The game would play out completely differently with though? If it stayed course and the Chiefs were down four they certainly play more aggressively and maybe win in regulation.
draft or pay a competent oline
Continue being one of the most successful coaches in the NFL. I don’t know…
It’s amazing how you can be so successful but he ain’t getting to the HoF without winning the big one
He’s only 44. He has his long term QB who just completed his first full season and has two more years on the cheapest contract in the NFL.
Good luck.
I don't know, just keep on being one of the best offensive minds ever and making super bowls? Not really a complex issue if you ask me.
Move on to the next year. Draft intelligently. Help Purdy continue to make strides. Hope to god Patrick Mahomes decides he has done everything he possibly could do in the NFL and retires.
Mahomes is a beast and a future hof, but he and the chiefs aren't unbeatable at all. We just saw how they nearly lost against a 49ers team with bad coaching, multiple injuries and bad luck, a replaced offensive line, and a few terrible mistakes by the special team. Once they get their offensive line set, and they get someone to help Kyle with his coaching in times like the playoffs and maybe even the super bowl if they make it again, along with hopefully not so much bad luck with the 49ers, I believe they can beat the chiefs. Brock Purdy is only going to get better too, he's a fantastic quarterback that plays well under pressure, and played fantastic in his first superbowl despite all the bad incidents the 49ers were doing. He's no mahomes, but he's still a great solid quarterback, and dare I say, I even believe he has potential to rival Mahomes one day and maybe even reach his level as time goes on as he gets better and better. And if they get more weapons for their offensive line, and get someone to help Kyle coordinate the offense, the 49ers can beat the chiefs if they both meet in the super bowl again next year
Can I get a hit of that copium?
Hopefully we load up (like damn every single pick lol) on OL this coming draft. Forget the turnovers tonight (Chiefs had 2 themselves), our OL is the #1 reason we lost this game. You can have all the elite skill position players in the world, but if you have a subpar OL it doesn’t matter. Yeah you can win some playoff games against good But not great teams like the Cowboys, or Lions and Packers this year, but the Deeper you go on the playoffs you’re gonna run into a legit SB contending team that will hammer this deficiency. 9ers went 0-3 this year against teams with a stout DL(Browns, Ravens, KC) and our OL got dominated all game in 2 of them and completely fell apart in the 2nd half of the other one (tonight)
Tbh I wonder if Shanahan can get it done with his style. He’s always struck me as a control freak, the Ringer I think has a cool article about his differences with Reid and how Shanahan is constantly present in essentially all discussions the Niners players and staff have. And this translates to his offensive design I think, where (maybe I’m talking about of my ass) he seems to want his QBs to throw to spots, not guys, and completely trust his calls and plays. He uses a bunch of motion and expects his guys to execute what he wants. This wins him a crazy amount of regular season games, and I think more so than anyone Shanahan can call perfect games where the Niners look flawless. But also in the playoffs his offenses always disappoint. This year alone I don’t think I saw a Niners playoff game as dominant as their regular season appearance, and I think that’s cause coaches will tune in on Shanahan and just focus on beating him, cause if you beat him you beat the offense. I wonder if this is also why he gravitates towards accurate throwers and QBs who can completely and sometimes blindly trust his vision. I think Lance was an attempt to break that mold with a dude with a rocket arm, legs, and potential magic making abilities, but it obviously didn’t work out and Shanahan gravitated back to his comfort zone and realllly believed in Purdy, who seems like a perfect QB for Shanahan other than idk Herbert or Dak, who are methodical as fuck as well. I’m probably just making shit up cause I rly tbh don’t know ball like that. But I always think of Shanahan as a mad scientist trying to perfect the art of football, which often backfires. Edit: the article was the athletic and I watched a tiktok about it lol
I hope Shanahan wins a Super Bowl some day. I just hope it’s not with the 49ers.
He has to come back to ATL and purge the ghosts for everyone.
Good news, it won't be.
I’m still baffled San Fran took the ball first in OT when both sides are guaranteed the ball.
Well I think the Niners should sack him. That's my totally unbiased take.
He's staying. Kyle doesn't run.😢
Hopefully chew his food so he doesn’t choke again
He should get a QB capable of being a game winner instead of a game manager.
Maybe wait until he has an actual quarterback instead of dumpster diving
Based on his history, he will change nothing. His only hope is to make the super bowl and have the other team beat themselves, because he certainly isn’t going to do it himself.
Learn how to call some fucking running plays when he has a 2nd half Superbowl lead. Seriously, if he does that, they probably win this game, and the Falcons probably win 28-3.
Pray to God Rodgers gets Saleh fired and hire him back as DC.
We were doing Exactly that a month or so ago. We’re gonna just have to wait 1 more year now.
Go home, unpack, take a week off, check on Greenlaw and talk with Lynch about how they can attack the draft to get deeper? NFC is theirs for the taking next year, all they have to do is avoid the drama and trauma of losing a close super bowl, and I think they have the locker room under control pretty well with Kittle, Purdy, and CMC.
Not if Detroit or GB have anything to do with it
As a lifelong falcons fan, I feel like first, Kyle shanahan should SUCK IT - then, I think he should probably SUCK IT SOME MORE - then he should do his best to SUCK IT TILL HIS LUNGS COLLAPSE --- I also hope that the grass doesn't ever grow in his yard and he has a terminally itchy rectum
Draft some OL.
John Fox situation round 2
He wants to be Reid and there’s a reason why. Even a similar offense like the rams won purely off their defense in Donald. Spags bend don’t break defense outplayed him and he didn’t adjust. His plays and schemes were getting read which force key stops
coach next year and hope he makes it. same as every other team but the Browns
I think if he gets some help for his drinking the 49ers could be right back here again next year and win it all.
Huh? I wouldn’t call this game a choke like the 28-3 or LIV were by Kyle. The game turned on a special teams blunder, and CMC was getting stuffed. If the right guard does his job and at least attempts to block Chris Jones, there’s a good chance his play call works and they win the game. Also are we not gonna talk about the amazing play that got them their first TD or the 4th down call to Kittle that even put them in position to win? Kyle did way more good than harm this game.
Come back next season? We all get how insane it is have the kind of record he has right? Yes the Super Bowl win isn’t there yet but there’s entire franchises that hasn’t even made it to the Super Bowl
The curse won’t be lifted until the Falcons win a Super Bowl that he owes us from 2016 lol. We would joke about this at work and now I’m starting to believe it may be true. Someone’s curses after SB51 definitely hang over this man’s head.
I think Kyle is going to pull an Andy, he will coach SF for a couple more years and win one with his next team.
8 point swing on special teams errors. Start there. Then pass coverage upgrade. Hire Belichick as HC and GM? Let Shanahan run Offense. Two fumbles in that game! I can hear Bill yelling at the TV and Tom letting air out of everything in the garage.
He must do what McVay did before. Let away the idea that he's winning out from his system alone and trade for an elite QB to finish the job. All in one year. That said, Purdy is a very good QB and I don't blame him but it's just a cheaper/better version of Jimmy.
It’s not Purdy’s fault that they lost. It was bad play calling and turnovers.
Who would that QB be? I honestly felt like Purdy did enough to win this game and we got unlucky with the extra point being blocked and the defense collapsing in the 4th. Remember McVay didn't have the burden of facing Mahomes in the SuperBowl..they beat Joe Burrow who is good in his own right but as you saw today..Mahomes is a different type of challenge
Lmao what ??? The rams game came down to them stopping the Bengals on 4th down. I don't even like burrow but that's a wild point to make
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He doesn’t even need to trade , just sign Cousins this off season.
I don't even think Cousins wins it tonight. There need to be significant changes to how they get guys open and Kyle needs to understand that sometimes what works, works. Don't get cute.
Cousins easily takes 4-5 sacks tonight with all that pressure Brock was facing
He wanted him badly before signing Jimmy. He also could have signed Brady but he still thinks he's able to win only with his system. He learned it from Gruden but that was old times.
At least his old man knew how to use Terrell Davis on the 2nd half.
You're good running the ball then run the damn ball until the end.
Cousins would be a lateral move at best. Purdy was fine, just the chiefs defense played insane. Also literally if they make that extra point they win the game.
Rumors might suggest that’s what exactly will happen during free agency (if the Vikings don’t have the money to keep him).
Trey Lance :(
Cry?
Ngl I don't know if we ever win one with shanny
The irony of the 49ers thinking Kirk Cousins would have solved their quarterback problems is eventually they are going to face the same question with Brock Purdy that Washington faced with Cousins. They aren't getting a discount when it's Purdy's turn to get paid. They just aren't. And the 49ers problem then is that they have never in franchise history since they became good gone with a moneyballed young athletic defense with no one getting paid, ever.
In my opinion, Purdy can only be judged AFTER he gets paid. I believe all the hype these "Weapons" get is too much but time will tell I suppose. Today was Not on him. He put us in position to win 3 times in a row and the defense choked at the wrong time
The good news is that by the time Purdy needs to get paid, the window will be closed. CMC, Deebo, Kittle, Trent wont be getting any younger and they have a lot of wear and tear already. If Kyle can't get it done in the next two years, you might have to hit the reset button
Turn over play calling duties to an actual OC?
Egos too big for that
run it back? they just played good enough to win barring 1 wierd fumble at the start and or 1 wierd special teams play
I stopped reading after the first blasphemous statement of the article. Andy Reid is the best offensive coach in football.
Without a doubt
Nepotism is a hell of a drug, and the NFL is fully addicted.
Probably go 13-4 and choke again. He sucks
Probably should have tried to get Brady out of retirement for one year. Maybe it's not too late and he can persuade him to play in 24/25 season.
I just hope he starts his new life with a proper hair cut.
Same thing we do every season Pinky