SUPER BOWL LVIII FULL PREVIEW: 49ers vs. Chiefs I FINAL PICKS + PREDICTIONS I CBS Sports

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It’s just a two-lane road to that Oasis in the desert and the seats are set 49ers versus Chiefs Super Bowl 58 coming your way on CBS and it’s a rematch of Super Bowl 54 or Super Bowl win number one for Patrick Mahomes 3120 the final score there as it was 21 unanswered in

The fourth quarter by KC to erase a 10.4 quarter deficit Revenge perhaps on the mind of those faithful who will be making the trip to the desert never too early to set the stage the conversation will roll on for two weeks and here at the center of it all

Bryant mcfat and the two-time Super Bowl champion our guy Eric cilus the Sportsline mind himself we’re going to dig into some of the numbers here but I just want to get into the matchups that come to mind when you think about these two teams your initial thoughts beac

When you look at 49ers Chiefs on CBS Super Bowl 58 different cast of characters than when we saw them in 54 what’s the matchup that you look to right off the bat two highly respected coaches in the National Football League Kyle Shanahan Andy Reid when you talk about what we’ve witnessed throughout

This entire slate of ball games in postseason play the coaches that make the best adjustments put themselves in positions to win ball games we saw that in the NFC championship game with San Francisco making timely adjustment adjustments coming out of halftime to be able to Prevail and win the ball game

And the same can be said for the earlier matchup in Baltimore with Kansas City especially on the defensive side finding ways to keep things intact for them to win this ball game I look at Andy Reid right now he’s the best head coach in the National Football League Kyle

Shanahan is not too far behind as well this is the only thing that’s kind of keeping Kyle Shanahan outside of that or those Elite likee conversations where you talk about some of the best coaches that ever lace him up on the sideline in the National Football League so EK

That’s the match that I’m looking at when you talk about the mindes that these two guys bring to the table their the creativity offensively calling plays dialing up strategic opportunities especially in situational moments you know I respect both coaches but you better believe the coach that has his

Hand in his bag the most will find a way to win this ball game yeah I think the coaching matchup is is absolutely fascinating look everyone’s going to talk about Pat Mahomes they’re going to talk about Travis Kelce they’re going to talk about Christian mcaffrey they’re going to talk

All those San Francisco weapons but I think think you nailed it I think the coaching matchups whether it’s you know the defensive coordinator the Chiefs and that long time and long standing and what they do and how are they going to attack chrisan mcaffrey what are they

Going to do with Brock pie are they going to make him stay in the pocket are they going to take away George KD are you what’s going to go on with Debo I mean the 49ers have so many guys it’s like a shell game if you take away KD

They go to Debo if they take away Debo they go to mcaffry take away mcaffry to go to auk what are they going to do in terms of scheme against the uh San Francisco 49ers conversely what is that 49er defense going to do for scheme against the Chiefs because now Isaiah

Peko can run the football the the Kansas City Chiefs have a much better offensive line than when they showed up to play Tom Brady and the the Tampa Bay Buccaneers what are they going to do to Kelsey how about R she rice there is this is a chess match for two weeks that

We get to unpack and I actually think this is a more coach Centric matchup than we’ve ever had in any of the previous Super Bowls and it’s Andy Reid who tries to further his legacy Kyle Shanahan trying to add that only missing piece and almost poetically Kyle

Shanahan will try and ride the kid who he used to babysit around Super Bowls to his first Super Bowl title there’s history all over this one but the immediate history we look to is four years ago Super Bowl 54 EK do you put any sort of weight into the rematch

Factor here I mean so many different names when we’re looking at the cast of characters both who have come and gone but the coaches are the same and again I don’t want to beat the same drum but the coaches the head coaches are the same

And this is a this is a sexy coach matchup the Wonder kid who’s not so young anymore who still hasn’t won who could have won in Atlanta when they were up 28-3 could have won against Andy Reid didn’t quite do it and now gets an absolute gift from the Lions which puts

Them back with another chance to close the deal against Andy Reid who keeps just going higher and higher and higher on the all-time coaching list and again it’s Steve Spagnola and that defense going up the 49er and how they scheme plays this again I see as a coaching

Just Nirvana and a sexy coaching matchup and that’s what I take from what happened four years ago the coaches the front and center coaches are still the same for me it’s about what has you know Kyle Shanahan what what what he’s learned because you look at his two

Super Bowl appearances as a coach coordinator with Atlanta most recently four years ago head coach with the San Francisco 49ers in both cases his teams had double digit leads in the second half and they found ways to squander away those opportunities we know about what happened with Atlanta against the

New England Patriots many people feel felt like he just wanted to throw the football kept his foot foot on the gas and led to opportunities for Tom Brady and the Patriots to come back and they won that ball game if you remember go back four years ago he kind of like

Taking the game out of what they were doing to help them get that 10-point lead or whatever it was in the second half and just became super aggressive what you know what what what he’s learn because you can’t get into this moment once again and have a double digit lead

In the second half and and find a way to squander a little squander it away so it’s about The Learning Experience because you don’t question that with Andy Reid Andy Reid has an abundance of experience in the Super Bowl you know winning and losing so he’s been on both

Sides of the spectrum understand and what it takes to find a way to finish the drill you know can we see a difference in regards to the mentality from Kyle Shanahan and his troops to be able to have the opposite happen in this matchup compared to what happened in the

First matchup Mac I just heard a couple coach tomlinisms come out of you there so I want to take you back to your Super Bowl experience I finished the drill I think was is what I was latched on to question talk to me about the pressure

You felt leading up to a Super Bowl and two-part question here where’s the pressure living this matchup well for us honestly my rookie year I was fresh out of college I didn’t know how big the moment was honestly I felt like uh my rookie year we made it to the big dance

This is supposed to happen every year I didn’t come to the realization how was difficult it was EK until speaking to other guys that played in the National Football League during the off season and you know they were congratulating me being a part of a Super Bowl team I’m

Like it wasn’t that bad we we we got there was easy so more pressure would you say the second time around no question because now I knew in the rest of the guys knew how important the moment was because you never know if you can ever get back to that moment now

When you factor in this matchup I would say more pressures on San Francisco because if you look at the teams that faced off in Championship weekend today EK Baltimore Kansas City Detroit San Francisco one team was consistently always in this op in this moment the San Francisco 49ers and granted Kansas City

Has been there as well but they’ve won MH San Francisco you gave us a stat last three NFC championship games they did what they took L’s lost the First lost the last two and won this one yeah lost the last two before today’s match up the last two games in championship play they

Lost so now you finally got over that hurdle of winning to get back into the big game now can you do so and win it all and finish the drill EK I would say the consensus all of the football heads getting ready for the season when you factor in everything that was returning

For San Francisco we all probably would say the most talented team in the NFL was the San Francisco 49ers right so when you factor in that pressure and then what happened the last time you faced off and played in the Super Bowl not being able to win the pressure is on

San Francisco for me in my opinion the pressure of putting money in our pockets always belongs to Eric cilus and I see the red pen already working on those numbers it opened at three EK I’m holding a Chief’s catching three ticket right now that number has moved and

Settled at 1 and A2 49ers one and A2 Point favorites here they’ve been favorites in every single football game this season it’s the first time that’s happened for the 49ers since 1994 the last time they won Super Bowl so I don’t know if that indicates anything here but

We are looking at 1 and a half 47 A2 is there an early jump on either of these numbers yeah I I love the Chiefs at three I you know again what I do is I make my own line before I look and I thought this would be right around a

Pick them or maybe the 49ers giving one and I know everybody you know sort of bets online now but I like to think and in my mind conjure up images of yester year when there was a bunch of guys you know in Hawaiian shirts holding Subs you

Know and waiting for the line to get posted and when it gets posted sprinting to the window all at once to bet one side before it goes back down and so you could see everybody ran and bet the Chiefs early all the early money came in

On the Chiefs which is why that wasn’t half and that’s where I am look the one thing about Kyle shanon and let’s not really you know say this too loud he’s not been good in big games all right he was bad with Atlanta when he had the big

Lead he had the double digit lead with the 49ers and G that up to Andy Reid and if Dan Campbell who I love and I say this you know kindly but it is fair if Dan Campbell doesn’t commit coaching malpractice then right now Kyle Shannon has lost three straight NFC championship

Games including two at home when he was favored he’s not been good in big games how many times does he need to let you down a big spot before you don’t jump on that meanwhile I got Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes they were getting drilled at halftime last year by The

Eagles has anybody remember that they’re never out of it they beat Buffalo at Buffalo they beat Baltimore at Baltimore and now they’re going on a neutral field and we’re going to give them points what are we morons it’s like when Phil Jackson back in the day said when Utah

Was favored over Chicago in the NBA Finals I want to meet the who’s betting against Michael Jordan and giving them odds I want to meet the who’s betting against Patrick Mahomes and giving him odds with a coach who let’s be honest has never done anything in a big spot against Andy Reid

I Echo that Pat momes as an underdog we don’t really see him as an underdog a lot but the few times he’s been an underdog 10 one in one ATS how to argue with exactly everything thing EK gave you guys is is is beding nuggets and that was the final thing for

Me that’s all I needed to add 101 in one ATS as an un adult Pat catching points I think that’s the sentence right there anytime Pat’s catching points we’ll see what this line does over the next two weeks but you have an opportunity to catch one and a half with the greatest

Quarterback doing it right now hard to argue with no question briyan mcf Eric cilus the talk is just starting as these two gentlemen will have you covered from Las Vegas beginning next Monday on CBS Sports HQ sprawling coverage across our host of networks from CBS to CBS Sports

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