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Super Bowl 2021 takeaways: 49ers passing on Tom Brady will backfire

The best weekend of the NFL season delivered as it always does. Championship Sunday saw Tom Brady punch his ticket to his 10th Super Bowl (that's 18 percent of all Super Bowls played) by beating the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship Game. In Kansas City, neither turf toe nor the Buffalo Bills could slow down Patrick Mahomes as the Chiefs cruised to a second-straight AFC title. Brady, at 43, continues to defy time, space, nature, odds. You name it, and he's punched it in the face. Brady arrived at Tampa this offseason and took an irrelevant franchise that hadn't won more than nine games since 2010 and has elevated them to Super Bowl status. Brady had a number of potential suitors this past offseason, many of whom elected to pass on the six-time Super Bowl champion believing that one bad season throwing to janitors at 1 Patriot Place was a harbinger of things to come. It wasn't. Brady was one of the best quarterbacks in football this season and shows no signs of slippage. As the 49ers evaluate their quarterback future, the decision to choose Jimmy Garoppolo over Brady is one that could down as an inflection point in the Shanahan-Lynch era. A decision that becomes a haunting "what if" five years down the road. While Patrick Mahomes will face Tom Brady in the Super Bowl, Aaron Rodgers heads into a long offseason contemplating his future. Here are three quick takeaways as the Chiefs and Bucs head to Tampa Bay for Super Bowl LV.
BY  Josh Schrock  - 
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The best weekend of the NFL season delivered as it always does. Championship Sunday saw Tom Brady punch his ticket to his 10th Super Bowl (that's 18 percent of all Super Bowls played) by beating the Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship Game. In Kansas City, neither turf toe nor the Buffalo Bills could slow down Patrick Mahomes as the Chiefs cruised to a second-straight AFC title. Brady, at 43, continues to defy time, space, nature, odds. You name it, and he's punched it in the face. Brady arrived at Tampa this offseason and took an irrelevant franchise that hadn't won more than nine games since 2010 and has elevated them to Super Bowl status. Brady had a number of potential suitors this past offseason, many of whom elected to pass on the six-time Super Bowl champion believing that one bad season throwing to janitors at 1 Patriot Place was a harbinger of things to come. It wasn't. Brady was one of the best quarterbacks in football this season and shows no signs of slippage. As the 49ers evaluate their quarterback future, the decision to choose Jimmy Garoppolo over Brady is one that could down as an inflection point in the Shanahan-Lynch era. A decision that becomes a haunting "what if" five years down the road. While Patrick Mahomes will face Tom Brady in the Super Bowl, Aaron Rodgers heads into a long offseason contemplating his future. Here are three quick takeaways as the Chiefs and Bucs head to Tampa Bay for Super Bowl LV.