Super Bowl 58 Mic'd Up

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Originally Posted by DaFace

I get the reaction to Gipson, but it's not like he was saying that stuff at the podium or to the fans. He was just trying to hype his guys up. It didn't work, but I don't blame him for saying 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.

Originally Posted by Calcountry

I was listening to KNBR on the drive home and one fool calls and it went on a rant lighting up the coach blaming him for not going for it on fourth down, knowing that Mahomes is on the other side and lighting him up for taking the ball first etc. yada yada yada what a bunch of pussies

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

Originally Posted by DaFace

While true, it's not as clear-cut as everyone's acting like it is. Everyone's using logic based on college rules, which works to some extent, but in the NFL's version, it becomes sudden death after both teams have touched the ball. So, for example, if the 9ers kicked a FG and they held the Chiefs to a FG, the 9ers would just need one more FG to win it.

We don't have any historical data to get a feel for the actual probabilities, but it's likely gonna be somewhere between 40-60% probabilities for either approach. I still think kicking is the way to go, but it's not the 30-70% variation people are acting like it is.

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.