I really didn’t care who won…I just wanted to see a great football game down to the final play as a fan of the NFL. Unfortunately… none of us got it as the Kansas City Chiefs obliterated the San Francisco 49’ers with a 21-0 blitz in a five minute stretch in the fourth quarter in route to a 31-20 win in the Super Bowl.
Fittingly, this Super Bowl championship caps a dazzling season for double MVP winner Patrick Mahomes and legendary head coach Andy Reid.
I like both Mahomes and Reid so in reality this is nice. It’s good to see a coach like Andy Reid get his Hall of Fame moment after all the seasons of almost championships in Philadelphia. He’s an innovative coach who through it all adapted to all of the changes in the NFL these past five years or so.
Who knows with a quarterback like Patrick Mahomes this could be the first of several Super Bowl championships if the Chiefs can somewhat keep their team together.
Tough ending for the Niners, but we must keep in mind this perspective about the one dimensional San Fran offense. If Seattle’s Jacob Hollister had garnered three more inches on the goal line on the last play of the regular season these Niners would have been the 5th seed in the NFC. The argument could be made if Seattle had stayed healthy the Russell Wilson led Seahawks would have emerged as the NFC’s entry in the Super Bowl.
With the exception of Peyton Manning’s Super Bowl championship win several seasons ago in Denver, in my lifetime I’d never witnessed such suspect quarterback play from a team entering a Super Bowl as the Niners were in this Super Bowl with Jimmy G. Maybe Joe Flacco, but even then Flacco was superb throughout his run to his only Super Bowl championship in Baltimore.
I don’t feel Jimmy G is terrible, but he’s not a guy who ‘s going to carry a team with his play. Aaron Rodgers used to carry his teams. Tom Brady used to carry his teams. Patrick Mahomes in the present tense carries his football team.
In closing, what the f–k was Kyle Shanahan thinking in this game? In George Kittles he had the most dominant tight end in the league since Gronk’s retirement and he didn’t use his unique weapon.
Two words…coaching malpractice. How do you not game plan to get Kittles at least seven touches…especially in the second half when Kittles’ physicality wears down opposing defenses. How does this escape a head coach?
As far as the best commercial…this was my winner. This was the first Super Bowl in my life I watched exclusively with women…my wife, my mom, and my diva lab Pauli. We all loved this commercial.