By many 9er fans. Not sure all of it is legit, but...
Allowing that prevent d against Mahomes w/ everybody on d 10 yard off los, when KC lives off that 4-8 pass all season long. There's no Tyreek Hill on this team.
The pop out blocking scheme that allowed Chris Jones to walk right up the middle and disrupt Purdy, preventing a TD essentially. Most of the game their o line scheme was blocking against a zone defense when KC was in man vast majority of the game.
Not running in the 3rd Q on the first three possesions. KC was showing run D and McCaffrey was only averaging around 3.5 a pop, but I think that was a big mistake there.
Kittle? What did he have, like 4 targets the entire game? Ridiculous.
Where were the screen passe? I also can't find the video now but there was a really good you tube video breaking down the lack of hot reads by Purdy and the ones that were hot routes were often on the wrong side of the field. Not sure if that was on Purdy or KS, but the author of said video put it on KS.
The decision to recieve in OT. I can understand the decision if it was to give the d a break because they looked gassed, and to maybe take some pressue off Purdy by possibly having to score a TD if they went second. But he flat out said analytics. Also the fb and a couple of other players said they didn't know the OT rules. That was odd.
This might have been SF's best chance based on the talent they have this year. And KS will now by known as the coach who blew three ten point leads - albeit once as an OC. I don't know if it's all fair criticism, but KS was clearly outcoached by himself and Andy Reid. The hot dog play to win it was something they should have been prepared for given that KC used it twice for TD's against Philly only one year ago.
Had the punt not hit the foot of the guy blocking for the punt returner, we wouldn't be having these discussions. Unfortunately for the Niners, one of the most unlikely things to occur in a football game happened to them in the Super Bowl.
they whacked their Dc--everyone needs a scape goat.
I'd blame the guy on that punt return who let the ball hit him. 7 free points. I'd blame McCaffery who fumbled the ball on a routine tackle.
Didn't the niners drop Craig who fumbled in the Super Bowl once?
MCCaffery didn't deliver.
He fired the DC (it was his 1st year as the DC of SF) today.
2 Super Bowls in 5 years. He must be doing something right. Most of these critics are fcking morons who don't know a golf ball from a football. How many years did it take Kansas City's coach Andy Reid to win a super bowl. He didn't in a decade at Philadelphia and a few years at Kansas City. Everyone should lighten the fck up on Shanahan.