The telecast didn’t do a good job of explaining that - the closest we got was Vinovich saying ‘this is a new game’ before the coin toss, ie, the first OT is the first quarter from a timing perspective. But I doubt many viewers inferred that from Vinovich’s comment, given how many rules are being thrown out there in a 30 second period.
Partially right, they don't do the full halftime intermission but they treat the end of the 2nd OT like the end of the second quarter. So the start of the 3rd OT would have begun with SF kicking off, since they received to begin the start of OT1.
End of the game? I mean, what would they do if it were tied after the first OT, declare both teams as super bowl champions? Split the trophy in half? Sorry if this comes across as snark.
If it had been the end of the game, SF would have won unless KC scored before the time ran out. Of course, that’s not the rule and KC scored anyway, but that was the point he was making.
Got it. I watched the game with all family and my son had to explain that a touchdown on the first drive in OT doesn't win the game, like in the glorious 3-28 game. I wasn't aware that they'd changed the OT rules and I was supposed to be the #1 football head in the room. Losing it.
No way. Mayo is unlikely to be as bad as Tomsula, and I’d take 2011-14 Jim Harbaugh over 2020-23 Bill Belichick any day of the week. I had forgotten what a ridiculous own-goal that was.
And fired Baalke two years later after he went through Tomsula and Chip Kelly as head coaches.
I'm sure the coaches do something like that. Not worth doing with the players as a group - you have so many changes year to year and they're pretty burned out right now.
Makes sense. Maybe include the quarterbacks though, except they may not want to single them out either.
7 conference title games in 12-13 years and no titles to show for it is brutal. I joke to my Niners friends that the Celtics and Niners are spirit animals.
As a Rams fan that has lived in Northern California since their Super Bowl glory days, and still has to hear from idiot 20-somethings that brag about the 5 rings despite having no memory of any of them, I can't muster up too much sympathy (although I resisted the temptation to talk shit because that was a brutal loss). The local fan base also got 3 World Series titles where just about every break and coin-flip decision went their way in each playoff run, along with 4 Warriors titles. So they aren't exactly Cleveland pre-LeBron here.
Vince Lombardi->Phil Bengtson. Overall, the post-Lombardi period was pretty disastrous for GB, only making the playoffs twice from 1968-1992 until Reggie White and Favre revived the team.
If Harbaugh remains that means he got the FO’s backing and I am sure he could have at least built a much better team than the dregs that they had right after he left.
This is completely random, but I was reading your post and saw this guy's name and I realized (mainly because it's a very strange name) that he is featured in the book Stay True by Hua Hsu I'm reading, a memoir written by one of Paraag's freshman year roommates at Cal. It has nothing to do with football, but it is a good book (won a Pulitzer).
I saw something about this yesterday and I had to look it up because I almost didn't believe it. For all of the shit everyone gives Cowboys fans, it has been even longer for 49ers fans - the caveat being that the 49ers have actually reached the Super Bowl since then.
Yeah that's really the rub. The Cowboys haven't even gotten to the conference championship game since their last super bowl, they haven't even been close to a title. The Niners have been to 3 super bowls and 8 conference championships since they lost won it all, huge difference.
Also why you don't kick the FG on 4th and 4 inside the 10. You need the TD.
They'd kept KC out of the end zone all game with the exception of the muffed punt mess. I think it was reasonable to bet on your defense holding them to a FG, and then you only need a FG to win. They called bad D once KC crossed midfield, and the Kelce play on the second to last snap was a killer. Just a lot of things that broke KCs way at the end.
Wait, the game is tied at this point. Go for it, when the defense was playing them well and not make it, the game is over.
Once Greenlaw went out the defense wasn't the same. Mahomes targeted his backup and went 9 for 9 on him.
You give Patrick Mahomes 4 downs every series when he needs a TD to win and you lose 100% of the time. Those are the statistics. SF played it safe and gave Mahomes the 4 downs. He used them all to win.
The Greenlaw injury was huge, no doubt, but that happened early and SF was competitive on D the rest of the game. Burks is also nowhere near the same player, I will grant you that, and they needed a big play on D (or some better calls) on that last drive. I just don't think Shanahan made any egregiously bad decisions. They were all marginal and could have gone either way.
The bolded, while true, is slightly misleading. KC kicked a field goal at the end of the 4th quarter, but only because they ran out of time, not because of anything SF did. Does anyone doubt that if there was a minute left (instead of 10 seconds) when KC had 1st down on the SF 11 yard line that this would've ended in regulation, with a KC TD? They'd also moved the ball with ease, 133 yards on their last two drives prior to OT (in 23 plays).
I think so. Seems like 2 shooters in custody and 10 taken to the hospital. No fatalities yet.
Had to be done, I think. He was getting out maneuvered by Romo in the booth. I bet they bring in an old head like Rivera.
Up to 1 dead and 30 injured, now, with 3 in custody. Looks like the rally ended by the old/new train station/public space downtown, which is where the incident happened.
Maybe a different thread but it would be great if Taylor Swift and Kelce out their influence to good use on this. At some point the fever has to break.
Never mind, I missed it. It was the 12:46 point.
With 12:45 left in the 4th quarter, Shanny went for it on 4th and 3 from the KC 15 down 16-13. Converted on a pass to Kittle, scored the TD a few plays later.
Thanks, see above. I was editing when you posted.
What would have been interesting to see is if Reid would have played it with a similar "use all four downs" mentality on the ensuing Chiefs drive if the Niners went for the first down and failed, since then the Chiefs would have been facing a situation in which they could lose on a FG if they gave the ball back to the Niners. Since that drive would have begun inside their own ten, would they have been aggressive going for it on fourth down until they pushed it out at least to their thirty, because a punt from anywhere inside there would likely leave the Niners with a relatively short drive to get into FG range? Or would they punt anyway to protect themselves from setting up the Niners in FG range if they failed in a fourth down attempt? Forcing those decisions onto Reid might be another reason why Shanahan should have gone for it in OT.
Interesting points. I can't imagine Reid would have gone for a 4th down inside his own 30 in OT.
Me neither. And I also doubt he would have gone for a 4th and 1 from his 34 as he did in OT by necessity in the actual game. At the time, when Shanahan kicked the FG, I thought he really had no choice given the circumstances. Now I'm less sure about that.
