A series of passive calls — on and off the field — sent the Niners home in Sunday’s NFC Championship Game.
INGLEWOOD — The NFL is big business — a multi-billion dollar enterprise. And in big business, it’s not the smartest or the richest or the oldest that wins. It’s the most aggressive.On Sunday — and in the weeks and months leading up to the NFC Championship Game — aggressiveness was the difference between the Rams going to the Super Bowl and the 49ers watching it at home like the rest of us.
How the 49ers respond to Sunday’s loss will determine if they will be the NFC’s team to beat for years to come or if they’ll be also-rans in a conference that has plenty of them.Niners coach Kyle Shanahan has struggled with game management his entire career. I argued a few weeks ago that he might be cursed — he can’t ever seem to get things right when it comes to late-game scenarios in big contests.
But in other critical situations in the contest, Shanahan was timid and unwilling to give Garoppolo a chance to make plays.The first key instance of passiveness was in the second quarter. The 49ers had the ball at the Los Angeles 24 yard line with 21 seconds to play tied at 7-7. Garoppolo had just spiked the ball, leaving San Francisco one timeout remaining, as they had just wasted one a moment before in a bad coaching decision.
Instead, Garoppolo made an ill-advised decision to scramble for four yards, and Shanahan compounded the mistake by deciding to let the clock nearly expire before stopping to set up a Robbie Gould field goal.
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