so bad: Awakening Super Bowl statistics are not good for Kyle Shanahan and the 49ers

Awakening Super Bowl statistics are not good for Kyle Shanahan and the 49ers

The San Francisco 49ers, led by head coach Kyle Shanahan, will play the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl 58 on Sunday night from Las Vegas. At stake is the opportunity to raise this year’s Lombardi Trophy. While the Chiefs were far more dominant in their victory over the Baltimore Ravens in the AFC Championship, Shanahan helped his team get this far by orchestrating a 17-point comeback against the Detroit Lions in the NFC Championship Game.

Naturally, Super Bowl 58 is a repeat of Super Bowl 54, where the Chiefs overcame a late deficit to defeat Shanahan’s 49ers in one of the most thrilling Super Bowls in recent memory.

According to a leaked statistic, Super Bowl-winning head coaches are 3-0 in their past meetings with other head coaches, so history is not exactly on the 49ers’ side this Sunday, according to Bleacher Report on X. The Chiefs’ head coach, Andy Reid, was also in charge when the team defeated Shanahan earlier in the 2019–20 campaign.

Kyle Shanahan’s 2017 implosion as the offensive coordinator of the Atlanta Falcons, in which the team lost a historic 25-point lead en route to a franchise-defining loss to the New England Patriots, was far worse than that defeat.