Sure. And having two possessions makes you more likely to win than the team that only gets one. Both of these are true, which is why the probabilities aren't as far off as you think.

In my opinion, the 9ers' fatal flaw was kicking the FG, not taking the ball first.

"You like it over there, huh?"

Goddamn guys - will you EVER learn? These dudes have rabbit ears. They always have. Mahomes and Kelce take notes. Constantly. And they are going to use those to fuel them.

"Mahomes is regular" is one thing - that's the kind of stuff Pat will internalize and use to motivate him. But man "Everything about being in SF is better than KC" is just a no-go, Charvarius. Because a guy like Kelce is going to use that to motivate EVERYONE. He's going to take that as a slight to every single one of his teammates and coaches.

I think Mahomes knows he has a bit of that Jordan pettiness where he makes mountains out of molehills to fire himself up. But g'damn man, you don't call out their organization, coaches or teammates like that because those dudes will make it their life's mission to feed it to you.

Kelce wanted Ward to know he heard that shit and that he was going to remind him of it.

Normally trash talk doesn’t bother me but this one struck a nerve.

I understand what you’re saying. It’s like a “We just made God bleed. We can do this.” but.. to say Mahomes is a regular QB? lol

Shades of Mccleon’s “Tom Brady.. overrated” on the sidelines of their Super Bowl.

It’s just doing too much.

What’s the issue here? Chiefs fans would be doing the same had we lost.

Agreed. You get the advantage of first possession in the case of sudden death. And up to that point, the only TD we had scored was on a fluke punt return fumble recovery. Why shouldn’t they have felt OK about their odds of stopping us from scoring a TD again?

You also get the benefit of resting your defense who was just on the field to end the game (though I know Shanahan says that didn’t factor into his decision).

There are pros and cons to either situation. I’m glad they chose to receive but don’t blame Shanny there at all.

How many times did Elway do that to us?

Crush our souls like we did to Bosa. I know EXACTLY how he feels.

Yeah, that's another good point. Mahomes had just driven down the field with ease to end the 4th and probably would have scored the TD if it weren't for the clock running out on us. Their D was gassed.

At first, I thought they were crazy AF to take the ball. However, if you look at it from the perspective that they had just finished the game in regulation playing D on a drive they stopped inside their 10, they probably figured their D was physically cashed, and they wanted to give them more time to rest up. I'm not sure they'd admit to that, but I bet it went into the decision making. And honestly, the only part of their team in OT that still looked somewhat fresh was (remarkably) their DL. That back 7 looked physically smoked.

It's never a good idea to give the other team, especially Mahomes, the luxury of another down if the need it. But, I get what they may have been thinking.

So was our D. If we dont score a TD, they would be going against our gassed D with only a FG to win.

I actually would have heavily considered going for it on 4th down if I were the 9r's. If the 9r's don't get the TD, and the Chiefs have the ball inside their own 10 yard line, the Chiefs would have had a completely different mentality on offense at that point. They are probably playing a little defense on offense, and they're certainly not going for 4th and 1 inside their own 35 yd line. I completely understand why the 9r's kicked the FG, but you could make a pretty solid case for going for it as well, especially when you didn't need a TD on that 4th down play, because a 1st down was still available.

There wasn't going to be second possession for the 49ers unless they could hold the Chiefs without scoring or force them to kick a field goal. The Chiefs were going for 2 if the situation arose.

The 49ers just failed to stop the Chiefs on a game tying drive. The clock was running out, so the Chiefs kicked a field goal to force OT. It was highly probable that Mahomes would do the same thing in OT. If ture, that would eliminate any possible advantage of taking the ball first.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-theme="dark"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Tashaun Gipson after he intercepted Mahomes: &quot;That&#39;s just a regular quarterback. He ain&#39;t different.&quot;<br><br>Patrick Mahomes: <a href="https://t.co/8H37skxHlM">pic.twitter.com/8H37skxHlM</a></p>&mdash; Lauren (@dogmomRN23) <a href="https://twitter.com/dogmomRN23/status/1757584843641123231?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Anybody have the entire Super Bowl mic'd up?

Rep for any helpful responses.

Inside the NFL on Netflix later today if you have access to that. I think we typically get the more "pure" version of mic'd up on YouTube later in the week.

my god someone send bosa a hotline number. he looks actually broken inside.

More Mic'd up stuff:

Bill Vinovich - 49ers need to come up with the best play in the book now. You don't want to give the ball back to Mahomes obviously

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Biggest snap of the game, and Spags dialed up a beauty ��<a href="https://twitter.com/insidetheNFL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@InsideTheNFL</a>: Super Bowl Mic&#39;d Up starts NOW on <a href="https://twitter.com/TheCW?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TheCW</a> <a href="https://t.co/gHgTRqa7XK">pic.twitter.com/gHgTRqa7XK</a></p>&mdash; NFL Films (@NFLFilms) <a href="https://twitter.com/NFLFilms/status/1757570352622825808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 14, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

The real ones are.