Super Bowl - KC vs. SF

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Dionysus said:
Sorry for the website downtime folks. I'm in touch with my hosting vendor trying to find out what happened. They are usually very good.
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After making it just fine through a final four football season, the website is busted by the Super Bowl?? Who said Hornfans aren't crazy for pro ball? :)
 
I kind of feel like Shanahan blew it. Unfortunately. Even though he was hamstrung by Purdy and the injuries to Greenlaw and Kittles. And the repeated penalties from the BlowU OT early in the game. The 49ers run game was established and successful on the game’s first drive. You have the offensive MVP in Mccafferey and you don’t run it much after that in a purposeful and focused way until OT. Even though the game was close the entire way. It’s just inexplicable.
 
The end of the game encapsulated the virtues and deficits of Tony Romo. Right before the winning TD, he was mumbling some gibberish about saving timeouts for the second overtime. Then, when he was analyzing the replay of the TD play, he gave some excellent insights that really helped us understand why the play worked.
 
Going first in OT was the losing choice.
I heard the comment by Romo that maybe they wanted to rest their defense, but going second is the winning position. Each team had the ball once, each drove inside the 10. SF takes the FG instead of trying for the TD because it doesn’t know how many points it needs.

think about college OTs — no one ever chooses the ball first.
 
stanhin said:
The end of the game encapsulated the virtues and deficits of Tony Romo. Right before the winning TD, he was mumbling some gibberish about saving timeouts for the second overtime. Then, when he was analyzing the replay of the TD play, he gave some excellent insights that really helped us understand why the play worked.
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Agreed. And my first thought was that we should have run that play in the Sugar Bowl. Seems like easy money.
 
VYFan said:
Going first in OT was the losing choice.
I heard the comment by Romo that maybe they wanted to rest their defense, but going second is the winning position. Each team had the ball once, each drove inside the 10. SF takes the FG instead of trying for the TD because it doesn’t know how many points it needs.

think about college OTs — no one ever chooses the ball first.
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In Shanahan’s defense, and I certainly think he blew the game by not running it more, his rationale there was that if the game was still tied after each team possessed it once in OT then the 49ers would start with the ball with the ball first in sudden death. So I believe his approach was semi-logical if you’re anticipating a long OT. But it didn’t work out because of course if the Chiefs went first then they would have punted on 4th and 1 from their own 35 at the start of OT and the 49ers would have won on a field goal.
 
I’m sure this has been discussed previously on another string but since I’m new… Did anyone ever, even slightly, anticipate that Mahomes would become a great NFL QB while he was at Tech? The guy just won this game pretty much single-handedly. They have a total of zero playmakers on offense outside of Kelce and they won the Super Bowl. Again. It seems unbelievable.
 
Dionysus said:
Sorry for the website downtime folks. I'm in touch with my hosting vendor trying to find out what happened. They are usually very good.
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It was actually a nostalgic feeling back to the days before you had the website. The uptime and performance since you took over has been incredible. Much love!!
 
Horns365 said:
I’m sure this has been discussed previously on another string but since I’m new… Did anyone ever, even slightly, anticipate that Mahomes would become a great NFL QB while he was at Tech? The guy just won this game pretty much single-handedly. They have a total of zero playmakers on offense outside of Kelce and they won the Super Bowl. Again. It seems unbelievable.
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My wife asked me why Mahomes didn't play at UT. I did a little homework. On Rivals he was a 3-star high school QB and a very good pitcher (threw a 16 SO no-hitter). He apparently visited 12 schools, including UT. Only Rice, Tech and Houston offered. We signed Heard that year. And going back a few years we had signed Swoopes, Brewer and Ash. I believe 2014 was Charlie's first year. It's not like we were stacked with talent at QB at the time.

Texas was famous for missing out on QB's. Not sure what happened except maybe Mahomes was a classic late bloomer.

He visited Aggy and they didn't offer either.

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bystander said:
My wife asked me why Mahomes didn't play at UT. I did a little homework. On Rivals he was a 3-star high school QB and a very good pitcher (threw a 16 SO no-hitter). He apparently visited 12 schools, including UT. Only Rice, Tech and Houston offered. We signed Heard that year. And going back a few years we had signed Swoopes, Brewer and Ash. I believe 2014 was Charlie's first year. It's not like we were stacked with talent at QB at the time.

Texas was famous for missing out on QB's. Not sure what happened except maybe Mahomes was a classic late bloomer.

He visited Aggy and they didn't offer either.

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Couple of things at play with Mahomes:
1. He wanted to throw the ball like 60 times/game, and truly only UH and TT could pretend that would be the case. Tech had Davis Webb and Mahomes wasn't even expected to back him up until it became obvious that they couldn't keep him off the field.
2. In addition to baseball, he was also all-district at DB. Texas, OK State, and Ark all had their sights set on him playing some version of safety if he committed. I think everyone knew he was a good guy and good athlete, but not fast enough for a skill position. With the coaching change in Dec-Jan of 2013-14, I think the new staff kind of packed up and moved on from Mahomes without trying to gauge his interest more.
 
Horns11 said:
Couple of things at play with Mahomes:
1. He wanted to throw the ball like 60 times/game, and truly only UH and TT could pretend that would be the case. Tech had Davis Webb and Mahomes wasn't even expected to back him up until it became obvious that they couldn't keep him off the field.
2. In addition to baseball, he was also all-district at DB. Texas, OK State, and Ark all had their sights set on him playing some version of safety if he committed. I think everyone knew he was a good guy and good athlete, but not fast enough for a skill position. With the coaching change in Dec-Jan of 2013-14, I think the new staff kind of packed up and moved on from Mahomes without trying to gauge his interest more.
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Appreciate the feedback about Mahomes. I understand that we and others missed on him out of high school - and I get that. I’ve never heard of anyone else coming out of Whitehouse HS and I had to look it up to see that it’s an 5A outside of Tyler. But my question was really in regards to what he put up in college. Did anyone see him being a good NFL QB let alone multiple time SB MVP? He literally won that game yesterday with no playmakers other than Kelce. I think a fair comparison could be made between the skill position talent at Tech and the skill position talent on the Chiefs roster this season, relatively speaking. So if he wasn’t an all time winner with poor talent at Tech, how is he an all time winner with poor talent in the NFL? I’m trying to connect the dots and find out 1) why he didn’t win at Tech, and 2) what changed so that he can win now?
 
365,

The best football coach I have ever known was retired and called to tell me about this kid "outside" of Tyler. He asked me if "we" could drive over and watch him saying he could make throws that some NFL QBs couldn't make. We thought the kid was going baseball like his dad.
 
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