I think he called him over to make sure he ran out the clock by running around.
That was amazing! Another comeback in the nick of time, almost like they planned it that way just to make it more exciting!
Was that the pass near the end of the game with KC up 4 points and a receiver behind the defence? That was a bad, bad miss. I realize there wasn’t a huge amount of separation but Superbowl-winning QBs make that completion.
Jimmy Garoppolo is a game manager. Don’t put too much on his shoulders and he’ll do fine, as he did for most of the Super Bowl. Once you start getting behind and need him to step up and start making big plays he just doesn’t have the ability to do it.
Assume Mahomes didn’t have the “power pill” moment in the last 6 minutes and continued to play as “Meh”-homes, and San Francisco won, who would have been the MVP? Assuming the Niners just played conservatively, used up a lot of clock time with meaningless runs, and were able to just bleed out the game over the second half of the last quarter.
There was apparently some betting-related hijinks related to that too. Apparently one of the most popular prop bets was an over/under on Mahomes rushing yards. Those last kneels (which count as negative rushing plays) cost many bettors that took the over.
As far as why he ran around and then chucked the deep ball, you’re right, it was to kill the clock. The last play was 4th down so he couldn’t just kneel it unless time had expired, the clock would stop.
No separate thread for the commercials? I don’t remember all of them, but I loved the Cheetos one, didn’t like the Little Caesars one because I called it the sliced bread commercial and obviously, the commercial is supposed to make you recall the product name. Also the Momoa one. Anyone else?
Also, my favorite shot after the win was the one Chiefs player making a confetti angel.
Also again, was there another superbowl game where a team came from farther behind to win at the last minute?
I suggested to folks at our watch party that Mahomes played badly the first three quarters because he had bets on intermediate results, and then money to win the game.
The purpose of the ballistic pass is to burn an extra second or two by having the ball arcing high in the air. I believe the clock continues running until the ball goes out of bounds or impacts the ground.
At any rate, with an 11-point lead, it’s not like even a Niners pick-six would have changed the outcome.
Well, as Kyle Shanahan would probably like to forget, the Atlanta Falcons team he was Offensive Coordinator for led the Patriots 21-3 at halftime and 28-3 about halfway through the 3rd quarter. So that was definitely a bigger comeback.
I found it a little annoying that the commentators (both last night and leading up to the game) seem to be laying that Falcons loss squarely at Shanahan’s feet. He was the offensive coordinator, of an offense that put up 21 points (one TD was a pick 6). You’d think the head coach and the defensive coordinator should take most of the blame for pissing away a 25 point lead.
It didn’t spook the Niners because they made him their head coach the day after that Falcons SB loss. It helped that he was Assistant Coach of the Year also.
In that game, though, (SBLI,) it ***was ***largely Shanahan’s disastrous playcalling that led to the loss. With the ball at the New England 22-yard line, all Shanahan had to do was run the ball up the gut three straight times and kick a field goal and the Falcons would have an all-but-insurmountable 31-20 lead. Instead his play calls led to the Falcons being pushed back wildly out of field goal range.
I think you’re being way too hard on Shanahan. The Falcons had marched down the field to the 22, and were going for a TD to completely slam the door on the Pats. 1st down he called a run and lost a yard. 2nd down was a pass, but Matt Ryan ran around way too long looking for a receiver, and took a sack he never should have, leading to 3rd & 23, so he had to pass. Then there was a holding penalty on 3rd down to push them out of field goal range. If you’re going to blame a single person on that drive, it would be Ryan for taking the sack. And regardless, the defense giving up 3 touchdowns in 20 minutes is what led to the loss, not a drive stalled for dumb reasons.
A field goal would have slammed the door just as hard as a touchdown. It would have been a 2-possession game. At that stage, whether the lead is eleven or fifteen points matters less than whether it is one or two possessions.
With the ball on the 35-yard line, he did ***not ***have to pass - the smart play would have been to run the ball again to make it a shorter fourth down, and hence more convertable field goal. In that situation, converting a 3rd-and-23 is highly unlikely, so passing does you little meaningful good - you are all but certain to need to attempt a field goal on fourth down regardless, so you do what you can to make the distance closer.
A pass, in that situation, risks a sack, interception, or incompletion (which stops the clock.) A running play, at worst, gets no gain or a short loss of yardage, and still keeps burning clock.
Assuming this was when the 49ers got the ball, down by 4, with under 3 minutes to go, I had zero confidence in him at that point.
I think the actual thought that went through my head was “Jimmy G gets an Eli chance! Too bad he’s no Eli.”
Note that the 3rd & 23 pass play he did run gained them 9 yards, and kept the clock running. It was the holding call that pushed them back another 10 yards out of field goal range.
And even if Shanahan had told Ryan to drop back 10 yards and take a knee on every play from the 22, calling him largely responsible is still ludicrous IMHO. The defense gave up TDs, that’s what lost them the game.
Garoppolo wasn’t great, but at one point he was 18 for 21. He wasn’t throwing terrific, but he was good enough. Tom Brady has won Super Bowls passing worse than that.
I’m sorry, but the Niners defense choked. That’s what decided the game. Their secondary coverage in the fourth quarter was, well, tertiary.
Don’t discount the importance of pass rushing. The success of Mahomes coincided with the Niners not getting pressure on him (hence having time to throw some of those deep passes) and conversely, the Chiefs getting to Garoppolo late helped seal the game (especially that 4th down sack).
Jimmy’s completion percentage was so high in the first half necause he was throwing short, quick passes close to the line of scrimmage. When the Chiefs adjusted, and challenged him, he floundered. And when the pass rush got to him, he was horrid.
The defense held one of the highest scoring offenses for 3 quarters and got two interceptions off of one of the best QBs in the league. But they got no help from the offense, whose 4th quarter was Punt, Punt, Turnover on downs, and interception with just about 5 and a half minutes time of possession. Yes, the Niners defense in the 4th quarter didnt play as great as they had in the past, but they played well enough to win if they had an offense that was better. Blaming the D for that loss isn’t fair.
The Niners mistake was going up by 10 points as -10 points is the condition that triggers the Chief’s offense overdrive subroutine 