Originally posted by 49erFaithful6:
We can agree to disagree. I don't blame it all on Kyle. Brock missed some open guys. Burford missed his assignment. CMC fumbled, and Trent sabotaged a drive with multiple penalties. It's never an all or nothing. I do think we had 2 rings (3 if we count 2021) on a platter, all with 10 point leads, and we found the ways to the L with a lot of strategy blunders. One can say maybe 1 time is bad luck, but certain trend here, especially considering he was hired immediately in the wake of a SB loss and had to answer up to it at his intro presser.
If one throws on tape of SB 58 it's our guys clamped all game and having to go to real ancillary targets like Conley or JJ cuz their 2 CBs are owning our top WRs. I thought the Shanny advantage is he schemes guys open, well not when we needed it most. So he needs to get better if we want to win in February.
We can agree to disagree about some things but the whole "10 point lead" was blown in this SB is simply a ridiculous take to make.
We scored a TD to make it 10-0. The very next Chiefs drive made it 10-3 going into halftime and the Chiefs getting the ball back. Why are we acting like that's some crazy lead to "blow"?
Also what strategy blunders led to the loss? And when you respond to this don't simply use hindsight hypotheticals to make your point.
"Should've gone for it on 4th down vs kicking a FG" is a hypothetical which simply could've resulted in another failed execution by the offense and Mahomes winning the game with a FG of his own.
So please tell me what strategy lost the game?