Chiefs Win Super Bowl 54: Are Kyle Shanahan and the 49ers Choke Artists?

The Kansas City Chiefs won the 54th edition of the NFL’s Championship game in epic fashion. The Chiefs came back from 10-20 to win 31-20 over the highly touted 49ers.

The streets are talking about the 49ers and it isn’t good. Is coach Kyle Shanahan a choke artist? With the Falcons, Shanahan’s offense historically blew a 28-3 lead and now the 49ers blew a 20-10.

I think the fact is that with the NFL you have to keep scoring. Running the clock out doesn’t work if you aren’t getting first downs. No lead is truly safe the way that WRs and QBs cannot be touched.

All in all the 49ers had a chance on a late 3rd down while behind 20-24 but Jimmy Garappolo couldn’t hit a wide open Emmanuel Sanders for the game sealing touchdown. If your offense is built off getting out to leads quick you have to keep adding points even if they are FGs in this era. Guys like Mahomes and Tyreek Hill are a few seconds away from 7 points at all times and that’s exactly what happened.

The 49ers will probably be back as all their players are young and under contract. The Chiefs will have to pay Mahomes and we’ll see how that contract looks but if I was a betting man I’d say that the 49ers have the better long term prospects.

Don’t call them choke artists, just call them not the Champs. Because the champs are in Kansas City, Missouri. Not Kansas.