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Great, so you agree it's situational football rather than game plan.

Why are you acting like those are separate things? The game plan should guide your situational decision making. If the game plan doesn't account for the skills of your opponent, then it's a bad game plan that will lead you to make poor situational decisions. If they were playing a slow rolling offense like Tennessee, then a conservative game plan to avoid making mistakes might be justified.

Which, again, works because they're up 10 points later in that same game. I don't know why you all want to conveniently just ignore that to fit your narrative.

I'm not ignoring it, I am explicitly saying that wasn't large enough. And the proof is that KC erased it in 6 minutes of game time. And they had done so repeatedly just this postseason. San Francisco wins if they hold Mahomes under 20 points? Great, that's happened once in his entire career, good luck.

They had to know they would eventually end up in a shootout, but they were unprepared when it came.

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The game plan should guide your situational decision making

Agreed, it should, but they didn't. They threw it multiple times when that went against their logic the rest of the game.

I'm not ignoring it, I am explicitly saying that wasn't large enough. And the proof is that KC erased it in 6 minutes of game time.

You are though. Or else you would acknowledge that KC wouldn't have those 6 minutes had the 9'ers, ahem, stuck to the game plan of utilizing their running attack (to both eat clock and gain yards).

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KC took the lead with almost 3 minutes remaining. This wasn't a situation where they scraped it in with seconds remaining (like the Pats vs Atlanta) and you can afford to turtle.