Coaching & Defense Will Both Be Crucial Keys to Super Bowl LVIII
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00:00 Offensively, by the way, both teams top six in the league.
00:07 14.8 to 14.5, San Francisco to Kansas City, respectively, in first half points.
00:13 But in second half, their defenses, they take those leads and then convert them
00:18 into being able to slow the game down.
00:20 Kansas City's opponents scoring less than a touchdown per game in the second half.
00:25 Just three points was Baltimore able to score.
00:28 San Francisco allowing 8.5 points per game in the second half.
00:32 So these teams combined allow not even 16 points per game in the second half.
00:36 No, I mean, the biggest thing here to me is I just respect the defensive coordinator for
00:44 the Kansas City Chiefs in terms of the, he's been doing this since 2007, shut down Tom
00:50 Brady's game plan for the New England Patriots in their undefeated season.
00:53 Steve Spagnuolo is a mastermind here and I think he may not have the same quality of
01:00 players at some of the key positions.
01:02 If you name off some of the top five players, most of those defensive top five might be
01:07 on the San Francisco 49ers, but I think the way that he coaches his defense, the way he
01:13 amasses the talent, and the way that, I mean, they've had losses.
01:17 Their worst game that they played, one of them, was against the Green Bay Packers.
01:20 A lot of people turn to that Green Bay Packers game and say, "Oh, they lost them this Matt
01:24 LaFleur, a disciple of Kyle Shanahan.
01:27 That might cause trouble for them in this game.
01:29 They could follow the same game plan."
01:31 In that game, they were without Nick Bolton.
01:33 They lost their starting safety on the very, on the seventh play of the game.
01:37 They lost a starting linebacker on the first snap of the second half of that game.
01:42 They were playing most of that game with a ragtag group that they had to just assemble
01:46 at the last second.
01:47 They had no time to make adjustments or coach any of these guys up.
01:49 That's the spine of their defense, just like that.
01:52 I think that they're going to fare a lot better here, and I respect the way that Spaggs is
01:56 going to make those adjustments quickly and just get on top of the things that Kyle Shanahan
02:01 might be looking to do here.
02:04 I love the, I'm a big coaches matter more than most people think.
02:09 I think that you might have turnovers.
02:11 That could decide the game.
02:13 You might have a bunch of sacks, potentially, although I don't think so, but if a quarterback
02:17 takes a sack or two, fumbles the football, that could decide the game.
02:20 Otherwise, I think it's going to come down to the game plan and the coaching.
02:24 Because I think both of these, all these players, they're generally really good with execution
02:29 in general.
02:30 I think it's the strategies that could end up deciding this one.
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