{"id":694371,"date":"2026-01-21T18:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/694371\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T18:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T18:36:14","slug":"the-49ers-have-been-the-final-boss-in-the-playoffs-this-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/694371\/","title":{"rendered":"The 49ers have been \u2018The Final Boss\u2019 in the playoffs this century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The San Francisco 49ers have had deep playoff runs under Kyle Shanahan. They\u2019ve been in a position to win the Super Bowl twice, been in the NFC Championship, and, most recently, the Divisional playoff round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">San Francisco made the postseason multiple times during the early 2010s under Jim Harbaugh, making similar runs. So what do the 2011 New York Giants, 2012 Baltimore Ravens, 2013 Seattle Seahawks, 2019 Kansas City Chiefs, 2021 Los Angeles Rams, and 2023 Kansas City Chiefs have in common?<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">They all beat the 49ers in the playoffs and went on to win the Super Bowl. Of course, three of those were in the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">For good measure, you can tack on a team that John Lynch played for, the 2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers. That means seven of the previous eight teams to beat the Niners in the postseason went on to raise a Lombardi Trophy. That number could have easily been 8 of the previous 9 if the Eagles didn\u2019t pull a 49ers and blow a 4th quarter lead to the Chiefs in Super Bowl LVII.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It\u2019s not a stat that means anything or says anything about either side. It is a stat that bodes well for the Seattle Seahawks, as history has a way of repeating itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Let\u2019s play the hypothetical, which teams above would you rank as the best opportunities the 49ers had to win the Super Bowl? You could even make it a top 3, given the various options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers have had deep playoff runs under Kyle Shanahan. They\u2019ve been in a position to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2080],"tags":[220,7,6,1161,252,85489,4030,2624,2623],"class_list":{"0":"post-694371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-francisco-49ers","8":"tag-49ers","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-san-francisco","12":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","13":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-discussion","14":"tag-san-francisco-49ers-history","15":"tag-sanfrancisco","16":"tag-sanfrancisco49ers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115934539547057277","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}