Which Team Will Win Super Bowl LV?

Before the season started, I predicted the Buccaneers and Chiefs would make it to the Super Bowl. So I'm off to a good start.
But I also predicted the Chiefs would win the Super Bowl. And now I want to change that prediction, because I believe the Buccaneers will win.
The Chiefs are weaker than they were last year against the 49ers. Since that Super Bowl, the Chiefs have lost their left tackle, Eric Fisher, their right guard, Laurent Duvernay-Tardif, and their right tackle, Mitchell Schwartz.
Plus Patrick Mahomes has an injured toe and isn't running as well as he did last year.
Before Mahomes injured his toe and the Chiefs lost their left tackle for the season, they played the Buccaneers in Tampa on Nov. 29 and won 27-24. In that game, Tyreek Hill and Travis Kelce combined to gain 351 yards and score three touchdowns. Those two caught 21 of Patrick Mahomes' 37 completions. Just monster performances. And the Chiefs still won by only three points.
I'm guessing Buccaneers defensive coordinator Todd Bowles, who's brilliant, will have a new-and-improved game plan to slow down Hill and Kelce and force Mahomes to throw to other, lesser players. And the Chiefs offense will struggle like it did for three and a half quarters against the 49ers last year.
Tom Brady is playing his best and is locked in -- he gets two weeks to prepare at home. The Super Bowl is in Tampa, meaning the Buccaneers get to sleep in their beds and maintain their daily routines.
As opposed to the Chiefs, who are away from home for two weeks and already have experienced a horrible event. Head coach coach Andy Reid's son, Britt Reid, who also is the Chiefs outside linebackers coach, hit a parked car while he was driving drunk and critically injured a five-year-old girl.
If Andy Reid is a human being, this accident will weigh on him because two people's lives could be ruined and one of them is his son.
Super Bowl LV should be an extremely close game. Little things will determine who wins. And it seems the little things point to the Buccaneers winning.
FINAL SCORE: Tampa 27, Kansas City 20

Grant Cohn has covered the San Francisco 49ers daily since 2011. He spent the first nine years of his career with the Santa Rosa Press Democrat where he wrote the Inside the 49ers blog and covered famous coaches and athletes such as Jim Harbaugh, Colin Kaepernick and Patrick Willis. In 2012, Inside the 49ers won Sports Blog of the Year from the Peninsula Press Club. In 2020, Cohn joined FanNation and began writing All49ers. In addition, he created a YouTube channel which has become the go-to place on YouTube to consume 49ers content. Cohn's channel typically generates roughly 3.5 million viewers per month, while the 49ers' official YouTube channel generates roughly 1.5 million viewers per month. Cohn live streams almost every day and posts videos hourly during the football season. Cohn is committed to asking the questions that 49ers fans want answered, and providing the most honest and interactive coverage in the country. His loyalty is to the reader and the viewer, not the team or any player or coach. Cohn is a new-age multimedia journalist with an old-school mentality, because his father is Lowell Cohn, the legendary sports columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1979 to 1993. The two have a live podcast every Tuesday. Grant Cohn grew up in Oakland and studied English Literature at UCLA from 2006 to 2010. He currently lives in Oakland with his wife.
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