Kyle Shanahan is on the roasting table after the San Francisco 49ers lost the Super Bowl LVIII to the Kansas City Chiefs at the Allegiant Stadium on Sunday night.
Kyle’s coaching career could be on shaky ground following the loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. Maybe he needs more Super Bowl losses to win it.
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For the third time in his coaching career — second as a head coach — Shanahan was on the wrong side of a Super Bowl result after Chiefs 25, 49ers 22 in overtime Sunday night at Allegiant Stadium.
Steve Young, the last quarterback to lead the 49ers to a Super Bowl title, back in 1994, was on the phone with The Post a few days before Super Bowl LVIII talking about how players’ and coaches’ legacies are cemented by the results of these games.
Fair or unfair, the legacy of Shanahan was as much up for grabs as any player or coach on either team because of the issues he’d had in the game before Sunday.
No one needed this one more than Shanahan.
And now, Shanahan’s big-game-coaching reputation has taken yet another heartbreak hit.
Super Bowls define head coaches and quarterbacks more than anyone. If you’re a Super Bowl-winning head coach or quarterback, you’re a made man.
Shanahan is young, at age 44, and he’s not going anywhere. He’ll have more cracks at this Super Bowl thing.
But until he does break through, his Falcons losing a 28-3 fourth-quarter lead to Tom Brady and the Patriots in the Super Bowl seven years ago when he was the offensive coordinator who got too pass happy when he should have been bleeding the clock with the run game will be an unpleasant topic of conversation.
Next year’s Super Bowl could be for Kyle Shanahan, who knows? It’s football and anything is bound to happen. Better luck next time, Kyle!