Hey, Giant Fans. Welcome to The Giant Insider podcast. My name is Jerry Foley. I am the senior editor of the Giant Insider newspaper. And with me as always is the beat writer, the Heart of Giants Nation, Big Trust, Woo, now a new title, the Seer, the fortune teller. I don't know, the Maven. A ton of names for you, dude. You put out a tweet, I don't know, it seems like it was a week ago when you said,

I'm feeling 31, 24 chiefs.

I put out there, buffoon-like, 38, 17-49ers.

So naturally, I told everyone, you know, bet heavy on the chiefs now.

It was a microcosm of the season, dude. When they scored 31, I'm looking at this going, unbelievable. And then I, you know, sub-tweeted your tweet, like, up, there it is. He was four points off, folks. So, unbelievable job by you, man. Oh, well, thank you, man. But you know what, Jerry, for three plus quarters,

look like you were going to hit him right in the head, maybe not 3817, but the whipping, right? Yeah. Yeah, I just felt like the 49th defense was going to get the best of them. And for, like you said, for three plus, I was right. And then Kyle Shanahan happened, I guess. I don't know. Well, you know, Jerry, when you give a great quarterback like Mahomes, if you leave, you know, you leave that door cracked open, man, you know, and you leave a little wiggle room for him to get through, that's what could happen. And that's what happens to the 49 is they're on the field for 75 plays. Their offense did not help them in the fourth quarter.

Two, three and outs when they needed for them to move the ball, right?

Yeah. Even get a field goal game's over. Get some first downs and they went three and out twice.

Shanahan was so questionable play calling after a first and five run, decided to throw it twice.

You know, you tweeted that, that right i'm sitting there watching the

game and i i i saw a first down five yard run it's like okay wow they are they're going to run all

over them again and all the sudden he throws two incompletions and it's like why did you get cute

i'm about to tweet it and then you tweeted i'm like oh there's my man there it is perfect nice job

buddy i mean that's what got them there right yep the running game in this postseason that's what got them there and shanahan got away from it a little bit it wasn't like you know the first down play you know it gives the ball a moster and he gets a yard okay it was a five-yard game right so everybody in I believe in a house store he's going to run the ball again. And he didn't. And then even third and five, Jerry, I was sitting there saying, well, he's going to run it here because I've seen Shattahann do this a thousand times. Third and five, third and seven, thirty, six. Well, he's run the ball. Yep. And he threw it again, left it in Garoppel's hands, and it didn't work

out. And listen, Spags,

he went after him, right?

He went after him the last few

possessions. He said, you know, if we're going to

lose this game, I'm going to do it. You know, we're going to go down

swinging. He got very aggressive, and Garoppel

was not the same quarterback with a guy in his face.

Yeah, right. He wasn't even close to targets.

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