” I cant look past tomorrows practice. I simply have to do whatever the ideal method.”
Seeing it critically dulled the heartache however not the motivation. Count Ward amongst those driven by imagine a return engagement, hellbent reaching the Super Bowl again and winning the damn thing.
Time turned lacerations to scars and tempered raw emotion enough for the 49ers free safety to look at the game as a teaching tool. Ward didnt just scan it once. He saw it again and once again, perhaps 20 times in overall.
Jimmie Ward didnt enjoy Super Bowl LIV game film for a month, maybe two. Metaphorical wounds were too fresh, too agonizing to endure a replay of how the 49ers blew a double-digit, fourth-quarter cause the Kansas City Chiefs in granular detail.
He has, however, put it in proper viewpoint. Ward knows the 49ers cant win the Super Bowl in August. Cant win it on Feb. 7, 2021 either, without doing whats required every day prior.
” I hear a lot of my teammates say they want to get back to that area and win it,” Ward stated during a Tuesday video conference. “Thats what everyone desires to do, to get to the Super Bowl and win it.
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” Everybody has that exact same mindset,” Tartt stated. “Making it all the method there and not winning leaves that ill feeling in you. We wish to return to that phase and win everything.”
Realizing lofty expectations cant take place if players are still living in the past. Thats why Wards approach should pervade through the 49ers locker space.
History states that is hard.
Spend all your time looking toward the horizon and youll journey over a rock at your feet. That takes place to runners-up so frequently that theres a term for it.
That one-day-at-a-time cliché is simple to say, very hard to do for a team that was simple minutes from a champion and let it escape. Its human to dream about righting an incorrect right now.
Thats a short list, thinking about the number of have trieds. Minnesota, Denver and New England have actually gone back to the title game and lost once again. We all keep in mind the early 1990s Bills, who made four straight Super Bowls and lost every one.
The feared Super Bowl hangover.
Just three teams have actually won the Super Bowl after losing it the year prior to. The Dallas Cowboys did it in the 1971 season, the Miami Dolphins won every video game and a title in the 1972 project, and the New England Patriots rebounded well and won everything after the 2018 season.
Safety Jaquiski Tartts take on the subject recommends that it has.
It can impact groups that win a title, however it pesters teams that leave empty handed. Every group that loses a national championship wants to win the next one.
The 49ers certainly can going on a redemption trip. They have all the skill and training required to win a stacked NFC West, go on a deep playoff run and wind up playing in Tampa for Super Bowl LV.
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Exorcising a satanic force does not take place in a day. It takes discipline over hundreds of them, and feeling over a missed out on chance cant fuel you forever. The 49ers have to embrace the grind to understand expectations and do what couple of groups have done, getting back to the Super Bowl and winning it.
Ward understands the 49ers cant win the Super Bowl in August.” I hear a lot of my colleagues state they desire to get back to that spot and win it,” Ward said throughout a Tuesday video conference. “Thats what everyone wants to do, to get to the Super Bowl and win it. We want to get back to that phase and win it all.”
” I simply feel like you need to get over it,” Ward said, “and believe about how you can improve heading into Game 1.”
The 49ers have to accept the grind to understand expectations and do what couple of groups have done, getting back to the Super Bowl and winning it.
