CMC’s fumble. Trent Williams hold. False starts. Missed XP. Muffed punt. The screen that lost 8 yards on 1st down. Greenlaw going down. Kittle’s disappearance. Iffy blocking schemes. And finally the playoff OT rule no one seemed to know about except for KC.
We made too many mistakes. The OT deal is inexcusable though. Shanny inevitably trips over his dick.
Main issue with this team are pretty much the same as the last couple seasons. No O line depth. Purdy was under fire most of the night. and the braintrust doesn’t pay enough attention to it. Even with Trent Williams coming back.
That and Shanahan not going to the ground more in the 3rd quarter.
The good news is this team is still young and under the paltry rookie contract for Purdy. We should be good to great for a couple more years.
But Wilks has to go. The defense did pretty well last night, but the 3rd and 4th down failures were many and varied. He was not nearly aggressive enough.
San Francisco 49ers Forever 
i’m so tired of this shit. Kyle’s become marv levy. Fuck everything.
Yep. Shanny watched Deetroit get away from the run and lose, and does the same fucking thing. This team needs to build a better O line for Purdy. And get rid of Wilks.
Well, It took Reid 21 years to get his 1st. Madden wore that crown for a while as well. Hope we ain’t waiting that long.
Stupid mistakes. The punt fuck up is a recurring nightmare for this team.
Shanny not knowing the OT rules was a major fuckup.
This team needs a better O line. Leaving Chris jones unblocked on the 3rd down play on the 6 was bad bad bad.
All the mocks I’ve seen have us taking OT in the 1st.
We were out coached once again.
Well let’s not go overboard, look no further than our beloved Giants, prior to 2010 they weren’t winning WS, even with BB in the lineup. And don’t forget the 2 Bengal SB. They were :34 seconds away from beating the Niners. The missed extra point really screwed everything. The muffed kick return, it hit a Niners foot so Mccloud had to go after it, freak shit happens. At the end of the 4th and the end of OT, Welks should have had a spotter on Mahomes. I knew those runs were coming
Loss of Greenlaw was the death spiral start.
He was jacked and we had no one behind him to fill his slot.
Opened the entire middle of the field for KC in the 2nd half.
I’d be shopping for a TE in April as well.
Kittle is on the downside of his career and Woerner can’t hold his jockstrap in all phases of the running game.
We bled out with injuries and poor play calling when it mattered most.
Woulda coulda shoulda with Shanny is getting harder and harder to swallow on the big stage.
NN has grades and OL got a D.
Perhaps it’s unfair to knock the unit so much for getting dominated by Chris Jones who, after all, dominates most opponents. But the 49ers offensive line allowed Jones to dictate far too much of the game. McCaffrey racked up yards, but was rarely able to get anything going on inside runs, an area Kansas City had struggled in throughout the season. The 49ers offensive line had too many mixups in pass coverage against Steve Spagnuolo’s blitz-heavy approach. Even Trent Williams got called for a couple of out of character penalties.
Got the OL grades and LG, RG, and RT not good from 49erswebzone.com.
. Guard Aaron Banks allowed the most pressures, earning the game’s lowest offensive grade (40.2). Williams’ counterpart on the opposite side of the line, right tackle Colton McKivitz, allowed four pressures, while guard Spencer Burford allowed three, and center Jake Brendel and guard Jon Feliciano allowed one apiece.
Brian Baldinger did a great breakdown of the third down play in OT. Not only was Jennings open for the score in the flat, but Aiyuk was WIDE OPEN in the middle of the end zone because the CB fell down. Nobody within 8 yards of him, right in front of Purdy. But what happened? The one guy on the KC line that HAS to be blocked, Jones, was completely unblocked and just strolled into the backfield and blew up the play. The definition of of a blown blocking assignment. Un-fucking-believable. This is after Purdy led a great drive to get that point. Yeah, they benefited from the penalty, but it was a blatant hold on Jennings.
You’re right, Chuck, Purdy was under fire all night long. Knowing that, Shanahan goes to the pass almost exclusively in the third quarter, when any kind of run game might’ve mitigated the Chiefs’ pass rush.
Kyle Shanahan simply cannot get out of his own way. For as much good work he and Lynch have done to turn the franchise around, I don’t think he ever wins a SB in SF.
They score a TD on that drive in OT and nobody is talking about the decision to take the ball first and it was right there on a tee.
Not necessarily.
If Niners score the TD, they kick the PAT because they have to. Moody is risky, but you can’t risk losing on a two pointer and then all KC needs is a TD and a PAT to win. Assume Moody makes the PAT, which may be a risky assumption. Mahomes then drives KC down the field for a TD. Reid likely does NOT kick the PAT, he goes for 2 to end the game right there. No way he matches the 7 and gives the ball back to the Niners with sudden death now engaged (that’s the rule). He’s seen Moody kick two 50+ yarders, so with two SB wins in his pocket already, he’s not risking a third possession and losing this game on a stupid, long FG to the Niners.
ESPN story said Chiefs had discussed new OT rules strategy long ahead, while Niners players (Jus included) didn’t even know rules had changed. Chris Jones had SF scored at TD, Chiefs planned to go for 2. So I wonder if there is any way to find out what Reid’s choice had been had KC won coin toss, though he did make comment about Shans, saying something like “He’s a smart guy so he must have his reasons.”
Per TA column by Tashan Reed, under the old format –score TD with first possession and game is over–“…the team that won the coin toss and chose to receive won 10 (of 12) times.”
I have no problem with taking the 1st in OT. I would’ve gone for the TD on 4th down instead kicking the FG. If the score is tied after 2 possessions, we have the ball and true sudden death. I would not want that reversed with the ball in Mahomes hands.
The play that lost the game was a freak play. The punt that hit a 9er foot. The botched extra point was also a big one. End the end, it was Chris Jones, Like the last time we played in the Bowl.
Far too whistles were swallowed throughout the game too.
Can’t sound like sour grapes after the fact but…
WTF?
https://x.com/wyattsamaverick/status/1756874297107206442?s=42&t=NJAgPcFoOqcsEwnO3ZTM4Q
https://x.com/dfsdavegomes/status/1756906183212794212?s=42&t=NJAgPcFoOqcsEwnO3ZTM4Q
Andy Reid, fwiw, lost 1 SB and 4 NFC Championship games w Eagles.
Bottom line he has Mahomes and everyone else does not. They lost 6 games during season in Division where other 3 teams went 21-30 and no one won more than 8.
Also, from 1983-85 was O line coach with San Francisco State under Vic Rowen, per great story in Chron during the week.
Starts with an opening drive fumble by CMC where the 49ers were averaging 60% scoring all season! But the Defense was really good in the 1st half led by Chase Young of all guys who stepped up bigtime, frustrating Mahomes,obviously Kelce who’s shoving Fat Andy around on the sidelines,Niners should of laid down the hammer hard , but penalties,Greenlaw Torn Achilles on a freak play running in from the sidelines seemed to stop their momentum cold..
But it was the Goddamm “Ankle Plays” that turned the whole tide for me.Up 10-0 all the momentum getting the ball again after a KC punt and it hits off a Niners player ankle?Wtf? Very next play TD the momentum is gone and especially later when Moody decides to kick an extra point with his ankle instead of his foot hit so low it just about hit teammates helmets instead of Chiefs hands, 16-13 instead of 17-13 was a killer imo..Shanahan maybe is a Jonah ? 0-4 now in 2SB’s game,1SB as OC (Falcons) 1 Championship game to Eagles..
Harbs (Jim) talked about losing SB, that it still bugs him every day.
Wonder what plans he has for KC and Mahomes whom he will now face twice a year with LAC.
When will the Niners under Shanny ever get an above average Special Teams? I don’t even mean a great one. The rankings the last few years have their ST at best in the middle of the pack, with some having them in the lower third of the league. When do they ever have a really good punt runback, a runback for a score? I don’t know who that dude was that got hit on the ankle by the punt, but replay shows he had no clue where the ball was, wasn’t aware at all. Not looking, No clue. How is that? Then, Ray Ray doesn’t just fall on it. He tries to scoop a bouncing football to run with it. Why? WTF? Fall on it to stop the turnover. Both mistakes fall on the ST coaching, and ultimately, Shanny, MO. Without that punt boondoggle, KC doesn’t even score one TD in the first half. With Pacheco’s fumble basically evening out CMC’s fumble, that punt screwup basically cost the Niners the Super Bowl — more than any of the other mistakes they made.
Shanny’s reliance on the “third possession” thing as the reason to take the ball first in OT is a crock. The third possession will never happen. But, another point to make KC take the ball first is the turnover risk. Whoever gets the ball first likely starts its drive on the 25 via touchback, or near it. Deep in your own zone. In that case, IF you fumble or throw a pick, you are HOSED. It’s now immediately sudden death. You barely started, but now you will lose the SB on a short or chip shot field goal, while the KC offense did little or nothing to earn the win. The reverse is true. Give KC the ball first, and if THEY fumble or throw a pick, then the Niners have the chance to win handed to them on a platter via a short FG. If KC doesn’t turn it over, but rolls down the field for a TD, then you know what you have to do. Score a TD, and likely take the shot at a winning two pointer, not the PAT kick. No way do you kick a PAT for a tie to give Mahomes back the ball in a third possession where a long FG by Butker wins it…
New thread is up. Shanny didn’t know the rule.