Hey howdy. I'm Ben Solac. This is the play sheet. This is an episode we've been doing all season.

If you just got here sick, but I don't need to do the whole intro, you know the drill by now.

Open the Spotify app, watch the video and enjoy. The opening script. The matchups that will

decide the Super Bowl. We've got a Super Bowl, folks. Niners Chiefs, two of the best

offensive minds, league-defining coaches, two of most

of the aggressive defenses in the entire league, one elite quarterback and also Brock Purdy.

It can be a good game.

I'm not here to pick on Purdy, who is a huge part of the reason why the 49ers are back to a game that they appeared in but lost five seasons ago to these Kansas City Chiefs. Now, both teams are dramatically different now than they were then.

The Niners haven't just moved on from Jimmy Garoppolo to Brock Birdie, they've also added

Christian McCaffrey left tackle Trent Williams. There's been a huge innovation in the Kyle

Shanahan offense. This is a dramatically better team than they were last time around.

And the Chiefs have changed so much from that game as well. When the Niners last played the

Chiefs in the Super Bowl, Mahomes had just dawned on the league, right? He was the trick shot artist,

the magician, that access any area of the field at any time, scramble around, throw it behind

your back, like wizard demi-god quarterback.

This version of Mahomes can still achieve that, but has matured fine wine, Patrick Mahomes.

He can take the simpler stuff, take the faster stuff, let the offense work for him,

just hand the football off, throw the screens, he plays so much more within himself than he

used to.

Meanwhile, the chief's defense has gone from

somewhat occasionally good enough to downright dominant over the last few seasons, with the

talent acquisition and development of such players as Legerius Sneed and Trent McDuffie,

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