The stage is officially set for this year’s Super Bowl. As fans are becoming more and more aware, this game is a rematch of Super Bowl LIV, where the Kansas City Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers.
With the game slated to kick off in slightly more than a week, fans and analysts are trying to make their best predictions for this game. Some believe the Chiefs are still the Chiefs, and that, even though the 49ers were the best team in the NFL during the regular season, the playoffs are a different animal.
It seems that Craig Carton holds this belief, at least when listening to him talk in a recent segment of his show. Carton called Kyle Shanahan “the Philadelphia version of Andy Reid.” Carton believes that Shanahan “can’t win a Super Bowl,” and that Reid and the Chiefs hold a marked advantage over them coming into the game.
The 49ers are still 2.5-point favorites, a line that has slowly crept toward the Chiefs as the big game gets closer. Fans are growing increasingly impatient to see how everything will shake out, wondering which coach will help their team secure a victory.
Both team’s journeys have been different to this point, but it is clear that the two best teams in the NFL are represented in the Super Bowl. Brock Purdy has a lot to prove in this game, especially since he’s a second-year quarterback taking on Patrick Mahomes, someone who is notoriously hard to take down in the playoffs.
