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Why Kyle Shanahan’s teams have historically struggled to come back from second half a deficit

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After last week’s loss to the Chiefs, one Kyle Shanahan stat started making the rounds that has been talked about more than any other over the past seven days.

That looks bad, sure, but we needed more information to know whether Shanahan’s teams were losing close games or whether they were losing a lot of blowouts. We have more data thanks to NFL Network researcher and Niners Nation podcast host Michelle Magdziuk.

It’s worse than you think.

When Kyle Shanahan is trailing by one score at any point in the second half, he is 13-34.