Yup. SF needs to get to Mahomes to have a chance. That’s what Tampa Bay did and it really impacted him. Baltimore’s defense was very good after the bad start but Lamar and the offense were just so bad.
Is this true? I don't have any stats but my eye test from watching every niners game this year is they do cover very well. Ward is excellent, Lenoir is very good and Thomas is OK. Other than Burrow, I don't remember anyone dicing them up that bad this year.
And unlike Harbaugh, Reid will use Pacheco and CEH plenty to soften everything up.
Cousins comes to mind as well, he owned that game.
WR core the 49ers have a MASSIVE edge.
Rashee Rice is definitely better than Jauan Jennings but Aiyuk and Deebo are both way better than Rice
Yeah their receivers are clearly better (though you’re underselling Rice a bit IMO) but for me the overall passing game still favors Mahomes and the Chiefs simply because it’s Mahomes.
Here's the thing, the Niners do have the talent and the personnel to get it done.
I think you mean Shanahan is pretty close to where Reid was in coaching ability just before Andy won his first Super Bowl. Just wondering how you determine/conclude that.
SF is going to have opportunities to win this game. They have a team talented enough to do so. Really comes down to Purdy for me and the defense making one key stop, kind of like the Nick Foles win over the Pats (…dammit).
I think he is in a similar space. Has reached the playoffs couple of times, even a Super Bowl, and can take that step now.
Yeah, as much as I want to see Mahomes fail, or at least be just excellent, he continues to play better than anybody. When he can’t scramble as well as he can now, will he be just excellent? I don’t know, he still will most likely have that arm and accuracy. At least Patriots fans have had the six Lombardis, 49ers five, and make it six in two weeks.
these next game plus next year is SF last shot after feb 2025 sf will have to break up because brock p will get 40-50 mil a year and paying the qb means most everyone else will not be paid
Mahomes has a cap hit of 57M and it hasn’t stopped KC yet. Almost every likely Super Bowl contender is going to have a QB with a 40M+ cap hit other than Houston and maybe 1-2 other teams.
She pulled her music from Spotify because she didn't like how they treated artists. They got her back after changing some things.
I dont think the last part is true. The NFL is the one pop culture thing more popular than Taylor Swift. A Taylor Swift TV special isn't getting 50 million viewers like Buffalo vs KC did.
Sigh. I had a whole post written up and my computer crashed. I'll say this much: I agree the NFL would get 120M viewers with those artists, but Taylor Swift is just different. She's on the first billion-dollar grossing tour. She's just different. She's arguably the most famous person in the world who isn't involved in politics or soccer, and even then she's might be more famous (other than Xi or Modi, honestly). Globally, she's absolutely more popular than the NFL.
Couldn’t disagree more with several things here.
Armstead for sure. Before the Packers game he was out for a few weeks with various nagging injuries; reportedly the most painful of which was plantar fasciitis. He's had that flare up on him off and on for a while now. Bosa seems to be fine, but definitely getting double teamed/chipped every play. Chase Young has been underwhelming; doubt he's hurt though. I wonder about Hargrave -- he was a force with interior pressure most of the season; either outright getting sacks or moving the QB out of the pocket into the arms of Bosa & Co. He seems to have gone radio silent since about the Thanksgiving game. I've been wondering if he's playing through an injury.
That will be really interesting. I'm surprised they chose Ghana and not South Africa. Infrastructure is a bit better in the latter, there's a deeper rugby culture that might appreciate American football, etc. At any rate, that'll be fun.
That was an all time bad take. Have we reached singularity when we've gotten to the point when someone can earnestly claim The Weeknd is more popular than Taylor Swift?
Or maybe in an alternative universe, Weeknd is more popular. I never even heard of Weeknd.
There's a legitimate argument to be made that Taylor Swift is the most famous person in the world right now....there's literally 0% chance that The Weeknd is more popular than Taylor Swift
No shit. I know Taylor Swift's music when I hear it, I know her face when I see it, and it's not even because I have a 13 year old daughter (who wasn't even a fan until about 6 months ago).
Say what you will about Harbaugh, but those teams almost never missed a tackle. Wilks ought to get them watching tape of Willis, Bowman et. al. They were an elite tackling team. The missed tackles on this version drive me crazy too.
The best about your comments about the Weeknd is that he PLAYED the Super Bowl 3 years ago.
LOL, I can't even remember the last time I watched a halftime show. That's when eating and drinking goes into power mode.
To be fair, "Blinding Lights" is the highest ranked song in Billboard Hot 100 history.
There has been a fragmenting of the music audience. Used to be there were a few big gatekeepers - the record labels, the networks (TV and radio), MTV, go back far enough syndicated programs like American Bandstand, Soul Train, Casey Kasem, etc. Now, every kid in the country can use an iPad to record and get their stuff out on YouTube/TikTok, and communities for dozens of niches abound, driven by the Internet, but there are fewer genre crossing superstars who are on the front nine of their careers who are your prototypical SB headliners.
You can bet on that! View: https://twitter.com/br_betting/status/1752105321416261845?lid=2mjvjjonccal
I'm a Seahawks fan, so go Chiefs!
This is very true. Steve Wilks is a horrible head coach and meh as a coordinator. That being said, the overall talent level is much higher on the Niners and if Purdy can stay mistake-free, they'll have a real good shot at winning this game.
I just googled Blinding Lights. I've definitely heard that song (#1 in anything is hard for me to process though), and now I know what the Weekend looks like.
What, you didn’t watch his HBO show?
Very few people watched that show. Less people actually finished it. None enjoyed it. Not exactly a star making performance for Mr. Weeknd. Great house tho.
