Kyle Shanahan Has Now Blown The Two Largest Fourth Quarter Leads In Super Bowl History

Over the last 30 minutes of Super Bowl fourth quarters, Kyle Shanahan coached teams have been outscored 30-0. After holding 35-combined points of leads, Shanahan teams have been outscored by 52 (FIFTY-TWO) points. Now, I wont put the Falcons defense in that game on him, mostly because he was the offensive coordinator. But his refusal to run in both games was his ultimate downfall. Down four with three timeouts tonight and he went away from the ground game that carried the 49ers' offense all season. It just doesn't make any sense. 

After talking about how long Andy Reid has been chastised for not being able to win when it matters most, Shanahan appears to have picked up that discarded baton and is now sprinting with it. Undeniably a great coach, one of the better ones in all of football, a man who was born and groomed to become only a head coach in the NFL in this life - and yet he must spend the offseason tortured by failure. Again. Just to come back next year and try to claw his way back through the NFC West. The last time the 49ers made the Super Bowl they appeared to be set up for the next half decade, they never got back. Their NFC West rival Rams looked like the future of football 12 months ago, they didn't even make the playoffs the next year. To be that close as an assistant and then as a head coach, to hold double-digit leads in both games and come up short, is remarkably cruel punishment for whatever unknown crime against the football gods Kyle Shanahan committed.