Average sack time is an interesting thing to consider in this game.
https://theramswire.usatoday.com/201...-to-sack-stat/
Since 2016, Aaron Donald has the fastest average sack time amongst DTs in the league at 3.73 seconds. That’s the fastest by 2/10’s of a second (doesn’t sound like much, but it’s significant). With that, we can fairly safely assume the DTs for the 49ers will take at least 3.5 seconds to get to Pat if they can sack him.
Bosa and Ford are both pretty quick around the edge, but I would guess Fisher and Schwartz will slow them down even when Bosa/Ford win on occasion. I don’t see Ford having any free runs at the QB like he had against Andre Smith with the Cardinals last year. Schwartz and Fisher are too good to allow that to happen. Donald also led all players in average sack time last year with an average time of 3.6 seconds.
Given all of that, we can assume that Mahomes likely won’t be sacked in less than 3.5 seconds in the Super Bowl.
Since that’s just an average on plays that result in a sack, Mahomes will have more time than that on pretty much every play.
How long can the SF secondary hold up against these receivers and Mahomes’s lightning-quick decision making?