OT: Super Bowl Picks

The Super Bowl is this Sunday and I wanted to see what everyone is thinking so post your picks and rationale below.

My Thoughts:

I think the Chiefs winning and Andy Reid finally getting a ring is the feel-good story that pretty much everyone is rooting for, but feel-good stories don't mean squat on the field. The Chiefs have looked like an unstoppable juggernaut on offense, but I do not think that they have seen, or felt, a defense like the one they are about to face. SF has an elite D-Line and gets incredible pressure with only 4 rushers. I have greatly enjoyed watching the 49ers D-Line just abusing teams. I see a lot of screens and quick hitters coming from the Chiefs, but the 49ers manage to stop them just enough times to get it done.

On the flip side, even with the additions on defense, I do not think the Chiefs are going to stop the 49ers rushing attack consistently enough. The 49ers are going to want to keep Mahomes off the field and just ground and pound their way to victory (IMHO the Titans should have stuck to their ground game and gave up on it way to early). I can easily see Garoppolo having less than 15 passes again. The 49ers game plan is going to be for the O-Line + TEs + FB to just wear out the Chiefs defense and grind them into dust. Everyone talks about the Chiefs offense but the 49ers offense, especially the rushing attack is pretty good, too.

I have always heard that when everyone is picking one team, go with the other team. At this point, I think that every single prognosticator that I have heard has picked the Chiefs. I think this is influenced by the love for Reid and by the ridiculousness of the Chiefs offense and some of the other-worldly plays that Mahomes has made, but I cannot help thinking that this matchup mirrors the Super Bowls where the Giants and their dominant D-Lines took down the Patriots and there unstoppable offenses. Defense wins championships, so I am going with the 49ers 38-31.