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   and two with 49 seconds to play. They still have one timeout.   
      
   This is where the sequence of events is on Kyle Shanahan’s   
   shoulders. Purdy connects with Jauan Jennings to pick up the   
   first down AND Jennings gets out of bounds at the Cleveland 26-   
   yard line, stopping the clock. The Niners have a fresh set of   
   downs and a timeout. All they have to do is put their rookie   
   kicker in the best possible spot to hit the game winner.   
      
   Instead, Shanahan calls one running play for three yards, lets   
   the clock run down to 9 seconds, and the rest is history. In the   
   span of four minutes of game time, Shanahan went from aggressive   
   when he shouldn’t have been too passive when he shouldn’t have   
   been. There was too much time left for them to not try for   
   another positive play and shorten the field goal.   
      
   The weather was bad - so you can look at it in two ways. The   
   first is that Shanahan didn’t want to risk a potential fumble on   
   the snap or handoff by running another play. That’s fine, except   
   that same risk exists on trotting your rookie kicker to nail a   
   40+ yard field goal.   
      
   The snap or hold could have been bad, or the rain and wind could   
   have adjusted the flight of the ball from Moody’s foot. Having   
   any positive gain to decrease the length of the path to the   
   uprights would have been a better option.   
      
   Shanahan is a genius. His offensive play-calling is the best in   
   the league, hands down. There isn’t another head coach in the   
   league I would trade him for. In the grand scheme of things,   
   this loss will likely be something forgotten by season’s end.   
   But how he has managed late-game situations historically,   
   including Sunday, is cause for concern. If the problem can’t be   
   corrected during a regular-season affair with a two-score   
   underdog, the worry will only worsen come playoff time.   
      
   When your team votes for Nancy Pelosi, it loses.   
      
   https://www.ninersnation.com/2023/10/17/23920788/49ers-browns-   
   blame-kyle-shanahan   
      
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