LAS VEGAS: Kyle Shanahan can lastly get previous the Super Bowl hurdle and shed the label of an enormous-sport teaching dud. Brock Purdy can go from being Mr. Irrelevant to Super Bowl champion.
For Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid, a win within the Super Bowl on Sunday in opposition to San Francisco will elevate them to a degree reached solely by probably the most completed quarterbacks and coaches.
When the Super Bowl ends Sunday evening, both the Chiefs or 49ers will hoist the Lombardi Trophy and the legacies of their quarterbacks and coaches might be reworked.
“I never thought about the word legacy,” Shanahan mentioned this week when requested how this sport would influence his following his blown double-digit fourth-quarter leads in his earlier journeys to the Super Bowl as an offensive coordinator and head coach.
“When I think of legacy, I think of my dad. Even though it doesn’t look like that when I FaceTime time anymore, but I still feel like I’m somewhat young. It just doesn’t really work that way with me. I don’t think that works that way with a lot of people are just in it. You’re just trying to win that game.”
Reid was in an identical spot to Shanahan earlier than beating him to win his first Super Bowl in his twenty first season as a head coach 4 years in the past in Miami.
Reid added one other title final season in opposition to Philadelphia and now can be a part of Bill Belichick (six), Chuck Noll (4), Bill Walsh and Joe Gibbs (three every) as the one coaches with not less than three titles.
“As far as the legacy goes, I don’t really think about that,” Reid mentioned. “We’re so tied up in the game and getting ready for the game, that’s where all your energy goes.”
But getting a 3rd in 5 seasons — and turning into the primary crew in 19 seasons to return-to-again — would put Kansas City within the speak for greatest dynasties within the Super Bowl period.
The solely different groups to win three Super Bowls in a span of 5 seasons or fewer are the Nineteen Seventies Steelers, the Nineties Cowboys and the Patriots, who did it twice with Belichick and Tom Brady.
“I think the number three is a big number in terms of dynasties and things like that,” tight finish Travis Kelce mentioned. “Hopefully we can get this thing and you guys can start talking about dynasties.”
Mahomes is also in place to hitch uncommon firm with a 3rd Super Bowl win, becoming a member of Tom Brady (seven), Joe Montana (4), Terry Bradshaw (4) and Troy Aikman (three) in that group.
A 3rd Super Bowl title at age 28 will elevate the speak about whether or not Mahomes could have an opportunity to catch Brady’s report that appeared untouchable simply three years when he gained his seventh.
“I’m not even close to halfway, so I haven’t put a lot of thought into it,” Mahomes mentioned. “Right now it’s do whatever I can to beat a great 49ers team and try to get that third ring. Then if you ask me that question in 15 years, I’ll see if I can get close to seven, but seven seems like a long ways away still.”
While attending to seven stays in query, there’s little doubt that Mahomes will finish his profession talked about among the many best ever on the place it doesn’t matter what occurs on Sunday.
Purdy is seeking to be a part of that group of Super Bowl winners and will be the second youngest quarterback ever to do it.
“I think Patrick’s legacy is pretty set,” two-time Super Bowl MVP Eli Manning mentioned. “What he’s done in these first six years in the NFL, making the Super Bowls, making the AFC championship every year as a starter. But an opportunity to win your third Super Bowl as a quarterback, that’s putting you in a different category.
“Brock Purdy, this is a great opportunity for him. … To get a Super Bowl would be huge for him.”
Purdy has had a meteoric rise from the ultimate choose of the 2022 draft to star quarterback for a franchise that employed two of the most effective to do it in Montana and Steve Young.
A win would let Purdy be a part of these Hall of Famers as the one QBs to steer San Francisco to a title and let him be identified extra for successful the Super Bowl than his draft standing.
“As a quarterback, those are obviously big shoes to fill, and I’m not going to compare myself to them,” Purdy mentioned. “They’ve set the standard for winning, so it definitely makes you think, ‘Let’s step it up and live up to the standard they set.’”
Shanahan has been oh-so-near the soccer’s final prize whereas making a significant influence on fashionable soccer along with his a lot-copied offensive system and training tree of former assistants sprinkled across the league.
Seven years in the past as coordinator in Atlanta, the Falcons held a 28-3 lead within the second half in opposition to New England earlier than Brady rallied for a 34-28 additional time win that made him and Belichick the all-time leaders of their positions with 5 Super Bowl wins.
Three years later, Shanahan led the 49ers to the title sport as head coach solely to blow a ten-level result in Kansas City within the fourth quarter of a 31-20 loss, delivering Reid and Mahomes their first titles.
A win Sunday might do the identical for Shanahan and Purdy, though Shanahan’s focus stays on the main points and never his place within the historical past books.
“I just don’t want regrets,” Shanahan mentioned. “I just want to do everything that makes sense to myself, that makes sense for our team. … No matter how hard something is or good something is, you always keep perspective of what it really is. If you want your perspective to be someone else’s narrative, good luck being happy in life. Or successful.”
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AP Pro Football Writer Rob Maaddi and AP Sports Writer Dave Skretta contributed to this report
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