Kyle Shanahan talks TO strategy, late play calls in loss

nfl.use("nfl-video", function (Y) { nfl.videoplayers[srcId] = vp = new Y.NFL.Video.Player({ flashAdTag: "http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ads?sz=640x360&iu=/4595/nfl.news/story&ciu_szs=300x250&impl=s&gdfp_req=1&env=vp&output=vast&unviewed_position_start=1&cust_params=slot%3Dvideo%26url%3Dstory%26prtnr%3Daround-the-league%26team%3Dsf%26conf%3Dnfc%26dvsn%3Dncw%26plyr%3Dchristopher_jones%26plyr%3Dpatrick_mahomes%26plyr%3Dgeorge_kittle%26s1%3Dstory&url=[referrer_url]&description_url=www.nfl.com&correlator=[timestamp]" html5AdTag: "http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ads?sz=640x360&iu=/4595/nfl.news/story&ciu_szs=300x250&impl=s&gdfp_req=1&env=vp&output=vast&unviewed_position_start=1&cust_params=slot%3Dvideo%26url%3Dstory%26prtnr%3Daround-the-league%26team%3Dsf%26conf%3Dnfc%26dvsn%3Dncw%26plyr%3Dchristopher_jones%26plyr%3Dpatrick_mahomes%26plyr%3Dgeorge_kittle%26s1%3Dstory&url=[referrer_url]&description_url=www.nfl.com&correlator=[timestamp];ord=" + nfl.constants.AD_RANDOM + "?" -- Kyle Shanahan is again leaving the host city of a Super Bowl without the sweet taste of victory.The bitterness of this one might linger for longer.Shanahan's team again blew a fourth-quarter lead in the sport's biggest game, and unlike last time around, he had to almost immediately face a throng of media members wondering what went wrong.There were two key sequences where Shanahan moved in one direction when it might've been better for him to go in the other. The first came at the end of the first half, when Shanahan decided not to call a timeout to preserve enough time for his 49ers offense to try to score again before halftime, instead allowing the clock to tick down roughly 45 seconds ahead of a Chiefs punt with just over a minute left. He explained that it wasn't a matter of not being aggressive, but being cautious because of the firepower that existed on the other sideline."They had three timeouts; it was 10-10," Shanahan said after the 49ers' 31-20 loss to the Chiefs in Super Bowl LIV. nfl.use("nfl-video", function (Y) { nfl.videoplayers[srcId] = vp = new Y.NFL.Video.Player({ flashAdTag: "http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ads?sz=640x360&iu=/4595/nfl.news/story&ciu_szs=300x250&impl=s&gdfp_req=1&env=vp&output=vast&unviewed_position_start=1&cust_params=slot%3Dvideo%26url%3Dstory%26prtnr%3Daround-the-league%26team%3Dsf%26conf%3Dnfc%26dvsn%3Dncw%26plyr%3Dchristopher_jones%26plyr%3Dpatrick_mahomes%26plyr%3Dgeorge_kittle%26s1%3Dstory&url=[referrer_url]&description_url=www.nfl.com&correlator=[timestamp]" html5AdTag: "http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ads?sz=640x360&iu=/4595/nfl.news/story&ciu_szs=300x250&impl=s&gdfp_req=1&env=vp&output=vast&unviewed_position_start=1&cust_params=slot%3Dvideo%26url%3Dstory%26prtnr%3Daround-the-league%26team%3Dsf%26conf%3Dnfc%26dvsn%3Dncw%26plyr%3Dchristopher_jones%26plyr%3Dpatrick_mahomes%26plyr%3Dgeorge_kittle%26s1%3Dstory&url=[referrer_url]&description_url=www.nfl.com&correlator=[timestamp];ord=" + nfl.constants.AD_RANDOM + "?" The penalty Shanahan referred to was a questionable offensive pass interference call on George Kittle, which negated a 42-yard completion that would've put the 49ers in excellent scoring position at the Kansas City 13-yard line with 0:14 to go before Shakira and Jennifer Lopez took over as the center of attention. The 49ers took less than a minute of game time off the clock."The last thing you're thinking about when you're up three points and there is that much time left, the clock is not an issue at that time, especially with the timeouts," Shanahan explained. nfl.use("nfl-video", function (Y) { nfl.videoplayers[srcId] = vp = new Y.NFL.Video.Player({ flashAdTag: "http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ads?sz=640x360&iu=/4595/nfl.news/story&ciu_szs=300x250&impl=s&gdfp_req=1&env=vp&output=vast&unviewed_position_start=1&cust_params=slot%3Dvideo%26url%3Dstory%26prtnr%3Daround-the-league%26team%3Dsf%26conf%3Dnfc%26dvsn%3Dncw%26plyr%3Dchristopher_jones%26plyr%3Dpatrick_mahomes%26plyr%3Dgeorge_kittle%26s1%3Dstory&url=[referrer_url]&description_url=www.nfl.com&correlator=[timestamp]" html5AdTag: "http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/ads?sz=640x360&iu=/4595/nfl.news/story&ciu_szs=300x250&impl=s&gdfp_req=1&env=vp&output=vast&unviewed_position_start=1&cust_params=slot%3Dvideo%26url%3Dstory%26prtnr%3Daround-the-league%26team%3Dsf%26conf%3Dnfc%26dvsn%3Dncw%26plyr%3Dchristopher_jones%26plyr%3Dpatrick_mahomes%26plyr%3Dgeorge_kittle%26s1%3Dstory&url=[referrer_url]&description_url=www.nfl.com&correlator=[timestamp];ord=" + nfl.constants.AD_RANDOM + "?"