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Williams admits Chiefs-49ers prep brings back ‘painful memories’ originally appeared on NBC Sports Bay Area
SANTA CLARA — The 49ers’ losses to the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowls LIV and LVIII are never going away.
And San Francisco All-Pro left tackle Trent Williams pointed out that a good showing on Sunday against the defending Super Bowl champs has no bearing on the past and everything to do with the future.
“It’s going to be a challenge,” Williams said on “49ers Talk.” “I think us being able to complete this challenge does a lot going forward for us, but it doesn’t do anything for avenging the loss that happened back in February.”
The 49ers’ overtime loss to the Chiefs might have been the most devastating defeat in franchise history. After all, the 49ers became the only team in NFL history to take two leads in the fourth quarter and one in overtime and still lose.
It is a pain that will never entirely go away.
“It’s tough getting out of that heartbreak stage,” Williams said.
Williams did not re-watch the Super Bowl for eight months until he was forced this week to begin the process of studying to face Kansas City on Sunday at Levi’s Stadium.
“It was tough,” he said. “It does bring back some extremely painful memories, for sure.”
Coach Kyle Shanahan already has stressed to his team that this is less a rematch of the Super Bowl as it is a game that can push the 49ers over the .500 mark for the 2024 season.
The 49ers enter Week 7 tied with the Seattle Seahawks atop the NFC West with a 3-3 record.
“That can give a little post-traumatic stress when you turn on the tape, but I think that’s human nature,” Shanahan said of watching film from the Super Bowl.
“But you’ve got to make sure you don’t get caught up in that. This game has nothing to do with past games. That was last year.”
Williams is in his 15th year in the NFL. He is experienced enough to take a pragmatic approach to what figures to be a game that will generate a lot of…
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Publish date : 2024-10-17 18:21:57
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