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Originally Posted by All22
Only the first sentence was aimed at your post. The storylines don't really match the game tape is my point. The chiefs earned their bad-run defense reputation...
The 49ers have aren't some team that sucks when you force them to pass. Every team tried that in the regular season and it kinda worked against the Rams but didn't work at all against us when Kittle was on the field.
On film, Minnesota and GreenBay clearly sold out against the pass (particularly the play action pass and RPO pass) so Kyle ran it down throats. I actually think it's a better strategy to try to stop our passing game than our run game but GB and MN couldn't score against our D.
Selling out against the run means you're going to give up the big play all day but the storylines kinda.ignore that.
On film, the Titan run game is only superficially like the 49ers run game.
Every team comes in saying the same stuff...
"Our run defense has improved so much... We can shut down the 49ers run game"
"Our offensive line is the best you've seen all year and we can handle the rush"
"Your secondary isn't that good, you can't guard (Thomas/OBJ/Adams/Cooks/Diggs/CMC/running back out of the backfield)"
"The 49ers haven't played anyone yet"
We were literally underdogs to the Bengals, Browns, and Panthers.
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I haven’t said any of those things. I expect this to be a close game late in the 4th quarter.
All I will say is I have noticed a lot of Niner fans on various websites underestimating Mahomes. He is every bit as good as Russell Wilson and he has a very strong track record of fighting hard when his team gets down. Similar to Wilson in that regard. I don’t think this will be a cake walk for either team.