Kyle Shanahan was the offensive coordinator with the Falcons when Atlanta blew a 28-3 lead in a Super Bowl 51 loss to the New England Patriots. Shanahan would leave the Falcons for the 49ers coaching job and found himself in a similar situation during Sunday’s Super Bowl 54 against the Chiefs, leading by double digits in the fourth quarter.
Well, it happened again, and Falcons defensive end Takk McKinley didn’t feel too sorry for the former Atlanta coordinator.
The Kansas City Chiefs scored 21 straight points in the fourth quarter to overcome a 10-point deficit in the 31-20 win. What was initially an opportunity for Shanahan to exorcise those 28-3 demons became another Super Bowl meltdown on his resume.
And this was how McKinley took that in:
Just ouch.
Obviously, a great deal of that bitterness on McKinley’s part came from merely being associated with that Atlanta collapse — even if Takk was drafted after the loss and never played for Shanahan. He’s still a Falcon. It comes with the territory.
You can’t blame him for rooting against Shanahan, but he absolutely kicked Shanahan when he was down there.
