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On February 11, head coach Kyle Shanahan and the San Francisco 49ers, along with their entire fanbase, had their souls ripped out of their bodies with an excruciating loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in overtime of Super Bowl 58, played from Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. The 49ers raced out to a 10-0 lead […]

The conclusion of the 2023 NFL season brought bitter disappointment for the San Francisco 49ers as they suffered a devastating loss in Super Bowl 58. Despite a commendable 12-5 record and a valiant effort to reach the championship showdown, the 49ers fell short of their ultimate ambition. Now, as the franchise shifts its focus to […]

The San Francisco 49ers suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl 58. The fallout has been quick and merciless in San Francisco, with drama playing out in full view of the public and a senior member of the coaching staff being fired. Head coach […]

The 2023 NFL season ignited fresh optimism for the San Francisco 49ers, a team laden with talent yet plagued by Super Bowl misfortune. Despite their potential and innovative strategies, doubts loom over head coach Kyle Shanahan’s ability to navigate critical game situations. A Season of Close Calls In their seventh season under head coach/general manager […]

On Sunday evening, head coach Kyle Shanahan and the San Francisco 49ers suffered one of the most heartbreaking defeats you will ever see with a crushing overtime loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in overtime of Super Bowl 58, played inside Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada. Shanahan’s squad got off to a great start […]

Head coach Kyle Shanahan and the San Francisco 49ers are currently coming off of what was an absolutely brutal loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl 58, played from Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada on Sunday evening. The 49ers got off to a 10-0 lead, holding a normally potent Kansas City offense […]

The Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers competed to the very last whistle in Super Bowl 58, which culminated with a Chiefs touchdown to walk the game off in overtime. The 49ers won the coin toss, but Kyle Shanahan made the ill-fated decision to take the ball first instead of playing defense and seeing […]

The San Francisco 49ers put up a commendable 2023 season. Recall that they finished with a 12-5 record. However, it all ended with yet another Super Bowl 58 heartbreak. Right now, the team finds itself at a crucial juncture as they enter the 2024 offseason. With preparations underway for the upcoming NFL Draft and free […]

As if Robert Saleh doesn’t have enough issues simply by being coach of the New York Jets, now Kyle Shanahan, his former boss with the San Francisco 49ers, dragged Saleh’s name into the fray after firing defensive coordinator Steve Wilks in the wake of their 25-22 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl […]

After the Super Bowl is usually the time where coaches on the final two teams take jobs elsewhere if interviewed and that is exactly what happened to former San Francisco 49ers pass-game coordinator Klint Kubiak. He has taken the offensive coordinator job with the New Orleans Saints, but gives major props to head coach Kyle […]

As the San Francisco 49ers lost to the Kansas City Chiefs, there is now a time of reflection for the losing team until the very next season where they will try and make noise again. When looking at the success of San Francisco, they were a well-oiled machine that had an exceptional defense and an […]

On Sunday, head coach Kyle Shanahan and the San Francisco 49ers suffered a soul crushing loss in Super Bowl 58 to the Kansas City Chiefs, resulting in the team once again following an excruciating bit short of breaking their championship drought, which has existed since the mid 1990s. One area of criticism that was addressed […]

The bitter reality that the San Francisco 49ers should have gone for a touchdown or even chose to defer the possession might haunt the squad for a long time. This, in effect, cost Kyle Shanahan’s team Super Bowl 58 after they cornered the Kansas City Chiefs in the first half. As fate would have it, […]

The NFL season came to a close on Sunday as the Kansas City Chiefs took down the San Francisco 49ers in a thrilling Super Bowl that went to overtime. That wasn’t the first time that head coach Kyle Shanahan and the 49ers have lost in the Super Bowl to the Chiefs. It happened just a […]

San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan faces mounting pressure as he heads into the 2024 season. This comes after the 49ers’ heartbreaking 25-22 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl 58. Shanahan, who has been at the helm since 2017, finds himself on the hot seat yet again after another Super Bowl […]

Before the San Francisco 49ers hoisted the George Halas Trophy, which is what the winners of the NFC Championship Game receive, the narrative was already being written for Kyle Shanahan. Keyboard warriors were looking like linebackers waiting to blitz, with their fingers hovering on the edge as if it were the line of scrimmage just […]

There’s not been a lack of criticism for the 49ers from sports media members following their loss to the Chiefs in Super Bowl LVIII and Bill Simmons took to his podcast to join in and roast coach Kyle Shanahan. At the start of the overtime period, Shanahan elected to receive the ball first instead of […]

Oh to come so close yet come so far — that was the exact thing Kyle Shanahan and the San Francisco 49ers were trying to avoid during their revenge match against the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl four years in the making. It’s difficult enough to get to the Big Game, hence why […]

In a decision many NFL observers questioned, San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan elected to receive the ball in the overtime period of Super Bowl 58 against the Kansas City Chiefs. He tried to explain his decision in post-game comments. Shanahan’s reasoning came down to trying to think several steps ahead, assuring his team […]

The Kansas City Chiefs are once again champions of the NFL, winning Super Bowl 58 by defeating the San Francisco 49ers in what was actually a rematch from four seasons ago. Super Bowl 58 ended up being just the second time in history the game went to overtime. The major difference between Sunday night’s game […]

The San Francisco 49ers’ season yet again comes to a disappointing end. Kyle Shanahan’s squad had a commanding lead thanks to the efforts of Christian McCaffrey, Brock Purdy, and Jauan Jennings. However, the Kansas City Chiefs knew exactly how to adjust in the second half and in overtime. Nonetheless, their running back kept the faithful’s […]

It was a Super Bowl nightmare all over again for Kyle Shanahan and the San Francisco 49ers. Four years since they melted down and fell prey to Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs at Super Bowl 54, the Niners once again got victimized by the same team — and in seemingly identical fashion — […]

San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan made a gutsy call to go for it on 4th and 3 from the Kansas City Chiefs 15-yard line that might make the difference in Super Bowl 58. The 49ers were down 13-10 at the time in the fourth quarter, when Kyle Shanahan decided to keep the offense […]

The San Francisco 49ers will hope to get off a good start in their showdown against the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl 58. We’re here to share our Super Bowl 58 odds series, and make a 49ers first scoring drive prediction, and pick for the Big Game. The 49ers have not scored on either […]

Kyle Shanahan’s love for football came from his father, Mike. That love made Kyle want to be a coach, like Mike, and now Kyle is leading the San Francisco 49ers to his second Super Bowl as a head coach. Will Kyle pass that love of football down to his children: Carter, Stella, and Lexi? Kyle […]

There is no prouder moment for a father than when a son follows in his footsteps. Kyle Shanahan gained his love for football from his father, Mike. That love propelled Kyle to want to be a coach, like Mike, and now Kyle is one of the great football minds in the NFL. Kyle has an […]

The Kansas City Chiefs have Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, and Taylor Swift to fill up their newsfeeds heading into Super Bowl 58. But what do the San Francisco 49ers have? Well, they have the so-called Mr. Irrelevant in their starting quarterback, Brock Purdy. Purdy has been a major talking point leading up to Super Bowl […]

Like with any game, Super Bowl 58 has a lot of intriguing storylines to it, starting on the field and extending well beyond it. Firstly, you obviously have two of the NFL’s best teams this season in the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers, both among the most successful teams over the last several […]

The Kansas City Chiefs are underdogs to the San Francisco 49ers at Super Bowl LVIII but Head Coach Andy Reid is not sweating the details. He responded to a question about being the underdog recently with a ferocity that hasn’t been seen in the NFL in a long time. Meanwhile, Reid’s star tight end Travis […]

The NFL season will conclude this Sunday in Super Bowl 58 when the San Francisco 49ers will clash with the Kansas City Chiefs for the Lombardi Trophy and a chance to live in history. Neither one of these teams is void of past or present history, although it is the Chiefs that have had more […]

Before the San Francisco 49ers prepare to compete in the Super Bowl against the Kansas City Chiefs, the team should be in good position for the big game with a loaded roster. Especially since their lineup has two players in quarterback Brock Purdy and running back Christian McCaffrey who are finalists for league MVP as […]

Christian McCaffrey and the 49ers sliced and diced their way through the Detroit Lions in the NFC Championship Game in the Bay Area and now the onus is on the 49ers’ backfield to turn in a repeat performance against the Chiefs in the Super Bowl. Recently 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw compared himself to one of […]

On Sunday evening, head coach Kyle Shanahan and his San Francisco 49ers will take on the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl 58 from Las Vegas, with the right to hoist this year’s Lombardi Trophy on the line. Shanahan helped his team get to this point by engineering a 17-point comeback against the Detroit Lions […]

It’s well known that the San Francisco 49ers selected quarterback Brock Purdy with the very last pick in the 2022 NFL Draft. What’s not as well known is that 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan thought that Purdy was the best quarterback on the roster entering last season. Purdy was told that Shanahan had said such […]

The Washington Commanders have their head coach and general manager duo with Dan Quinn and Adam Peters, and San Francisco 49ers head coach Kyle Shanahan spoke on the duo, pulling from his experience that he has had with both of them. “I’m so pumped for Dan, I’m so pumped for Washington,” Kyle Shanahan said, via […]

The biggest game in the NFL calendar, the Super Bowl, is always played in a neutral location; the home and away team distinctions then alternate every year, and it just so happened that the San Francisco 49ers, being the representative of the NFC, will be entering that contest as the nominal away team after the […]

Brock Purdy has done an admirable job as the starting quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers in the 2023 NFL season. Otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the middle of preparation for Super Bowl 58. The Niners’ success with Purdy has also made rumors that San Francisco head coach Kyle Shanahan thought about bringing in Tom […]

On the eve of the Super Bowl, San Francisco 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan reflected on how Brock Purdy became the team’s quarterback with the final pick of the 2022 NFL Draft. “I was sure Brock was worthy of the fourth round, and we put a fourth-round grade on him,” Shanahan told Peter King ahead of […]

The San Francisco 49ers have had a successful 2023 NFL season with a 12-5 record and making it to Super Bowl 58. However, they have a fatal flaw that will doom them in the Super Bowl. Let’s take a closer look at the 49ers’ season, their potential weak link, and how it will impact their […]