The last time the 49ers faced the Chiefs in the Super Bowl in Miami it was a Kansas City home game. Will that replicate in Las Vegas?
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00:00 So the Niners have sort of revealed their mindset going into this game.
00:02 And to you, it's sort of pointing toward 2019, that game that they felt they should have won.
00:08 What do you mean?
00:09 I think that Kyle's statement to Bosa that Bosa talked about the other day is very telling.
00:16 He said the defensive line stamina is the key to the game.
00:20 That's what you say after 2019.
00:22 That's not what you say going into this game.
00:26 Yeah.
00:27 Is in that game.
00:28 That's how you lost in 2019.
00:30 Right.
00:30 Right.
00:31 And so it's in response to that.
00:33 If their head is saying that all we need is 2019, but a little bit better and we'll win,
00:38 that's making a ton of assumptions.
00:40 The 2019 front four defensively was one of the best in the league in years.
00:45 He had DeForest Buckner.
00:47 He had Dee Ford.
00:48 They picked off Mahomes twice.
00:51 They sacked him four times in that game.
00:53 Mahomes is a different quarterback now too.
00:55 He protects the ball more.
00:57 His last six games, he hasn't thrown an interception.
01:00 He's been sacked five times.
01:02 So if you think you're going to pick him off twice and sack him four times, good luck.
01:07 And if you think you're going to do that with this defensive line, that's not going to happen
01:11 either.
01:11 So I'm worried that they're looking at 2019 and anchoring themselves to if we just tweak it,
01:17 we'll be okay.
01:18 No, no.
01:19 This guy, this is a completely different game.
01:21 It's a whole different team.
01:23 I mean, the Chiefs are a defensive team now.
01:26 They're a run and defense team, kind of like the Niners, although they've been more committed
01:34 to the run game recently.
01:35 And their quarterback, who's the greatest gunslinger of all time, is actually more of
01:40 a game manager than Brock Purdy right now.
01:41 Yeah, yeah.
01:43 And to his credit, it's part of his maturity.
01:46 He knew that putting the ball up for grabs was part of how they could lose.
01:50 It's how they did lose to Cincinnati.
01:53 And so protecting the ball is part of how we can guarantee they win.
01:56 It's smarter play.
01:58 Now, being a game manager isn't necessarily a bad thing.
02:01 It's what Mahomes has become.
02:03 It's just that he's also capable of doing a whole lot more.
02:07 And it's like the league forced him to do it, right?
02:10 Because he was going bombs away for years.
02:12 And they said, all right, we're just going to play two deep safeties all the time, force
02:16 you to check it down and manage the game.
02:17 And he was like, okay, I can do that too.
02:21 If you want me to do that, I'll beat you that way.
02:23 How do you want me to beat you?
02:24 Let me know.
02:25 I can do it.
02:26 Got to respect that.
02:26 That's what the Chiefs are.
02:28 You're going to hang back.
02:29 All right, we'll just hand it off to Pacheco.
02:30 And this is the hardest running running back in the league.
02:33 And you have seven in the box.
02:34 Good luck.
02:35 And then when you bring the eighth in the box, hey man, we got Patrick Mahomes, we're
02:38 going deep.
02:38 Good luck.
02:39 Right, right.
02:40 Yeah, it's they have any number of ways to beat you.
02:43 And as I believe Walsh said, is that the more ways you can win, the more ways you do win.
02:48 Here's what killed me.
02:49 Mahomes has recognized that they're talking about 2019.
02:52 They're focused on like little tweaks that they would have won that game.
02:55 What about the 2022 game they played against the Chiefs when the Chiefs scored 44?
03:00 44.
03:00 Yeah.
03:01 Shouldn't that be your more recent reference?
03:05 Sure.
03:05 Yeah, I think so.
03:06 Seems like as Mahomes gets more exposed and Andy Reid gets more exposed to this defense,
03:09 they have more and more like Tyreek Hill was in that game.
03:13 Marcus Valdez, Scanlon went for a 111.
03:15 Like I don't know.
03:16 Juju.
03:17 Yeah, yeah.
03:18 They had a good game.
03:19 Yeah, they averaged nine yards of play.
03:22 So that's what you have to address.
03:24 The last time you faced them, which was just a little over a year ago,
03:27 he had no answers for them.
03:28 They made it look easy.
03:29 I think Mahomes do a pick on the first drive and they never punted.
03:32 Right.
03:34 After that, they just rolled.
03:35 Rolled.
03:36 That's where they got to look at.
03:38 And yeah, that's where they should calibrate is say that, okay,
03:41 the last time we played them, this is what happened.
03:43 But beyond that, they need to look at what Kansas City is doing now.
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