49ers vs Chiefs: Super Bowl Journey, Playoff and Team Dynamics

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00:03 Let's take a look at the playoff runs, how these teams got here

00:08 after these regular season divisional titles.

00:11 We'll start it off with the Niners.

00:12 Niners earning that number one seed.

00:14 They got the bye in the wild card round.

00:16 And then what happened next?

00:17 We saw a little bit of a fluctuation

00:20 in their dominance, perhaps.

00:22 When they were dominant earlier in the season,

00:24 they hit a little bit of a valley midseason.

00:26 And by the time they get to the end of the regular season,

00:28 they're like, ah, the Niners are fine.

00:29 But were they?

00:30 When they played the Green Bay Packers,

00:33 we had a serious issue with them looking

00:37 like they might actually lose that football game.

00:40 They end up getting the victory.

00:41 But what did we see from the Niners?

00:44 We saw, perhaps, a team that was a little overconfident.

00:49 They thought they'd go up against a rookie in Jordan Love

00:52 and walk over them.

00:54 But that wasn't the case.

00:55 Niners trailing in the second half of that game.

00:58 It took a couple of late interceptions by Dre Greenlaw

01:02 to take out those Green Bay Packers, who

01:04 are a team next year that a lot of people will be looking at.

01:07 So beyond that, they get to the next game.

01:10 We have them-- that's the divisional round.

01:13 And obviously, they get to the NFC Championship game.

01:16 And they go up against the Detroit Lions, a team

01:18 that we thought, all right, great story for Detroit.

01:21 They made it to San Francisco.

01:22 But the run is going to end there.

01:24 It's not the way that game started, for sure.

01:27 17-point lead at halftime.

01:29 And then we all know about the crazy comeback,

01:31 a massive third quarter explosion by the 49ers.

01:35 And then they ended up closing it out in style

01:38 with a 34 to 31 victory.

01:41 So that's how the Niners were able to build their way

01:44 to the Super Bowl.

01:45 Kansas City Chiefs, on the flip side,

01:48 they don't earn that bye this time around.

01:50 And they get to the wild card round,

01:52 walk over the Dolphins in freezing cold weather,

01:54 26 to 7 victory, and then move on

01:57 to beat the Bills in another classic 27 to 24.

02:01 And again, the Chiefs are trailing

02:03 in a lot of these games.

02:04 They are a team-- both teams, I would say.

02:07 I'd take a moment to say, both teams really

02:10 built to play from in front.

02:11 The Niners are very much a team that

02:13 likes to be in front, a high-scoring first half team.

02:16 The Chiefs as well.

02:18 And both defenses have proven to be

02:21 very good in the second half, particularly the Chiefs.

02:23 That will be a theme that I talk about all throughout the week.

02:26 Chiefs' second half defense, Chiefs' fourth quarter

02:28 defense, that's going to be the theme

02:30 that we talk about all week.

02:31 But the Chiefs, obviously, would come from behind victory

02:36 against the Buffalo Bills, and then

02:38 against the Ravens, a 17 to 10 victory, which was a game that--

02:42 we're used to talking Lamar Jackson, Patrick Holmes,

02:45 offensive explosion, not the case at all, 17 to 10.

02:49 Chiefs go on the road, punt five times in the second half,

02:52 do not score, and win the football game.

02:54 So an impressive performance for them defensively.

02:57 Steve Spagnuolo, another guy that we'll talk about a lot

03:00 this week, and how he's able to make adjustments to slow down

03:03 the opposing offenses.

03:05 So that's how they got here.

03:07 I would not say that the Niners did it with style points,

03:10 but it's a survive and advance type of league,

03:12 and they are here to try to revenge that Super Bowl

03:16 from a few years ago.

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