Dominate the Super Bowl

In the NFL, the importance of a playbook is self-evident, and can even be said to be the core. The league has established many rules to help teams keep their strategies secret.

However, it is now the era of smartphones and social networks.

Everything is difficult to guard against. Fans may unconsciously record and share content from open team practices, leading to leaks of strategies.

Because of this, all thirty-two teams have formed media monitoring groups to continuously review and observe social networks and content published on knowledge-paid platforms to avoid leaking team secrets.

Despite this, once the season begins, from the preseason, all game footage will be archived by the league and regularly uploaded. All teams in the league have access, which means keeping strategies secret is nearly an impossible task.

In this situation, Reed intentionally allowed or perhaps even secretly encouraged rampant rumors about Li Wei during the off-season, and kept Li Wei and the main players on the bench throughout the preseason. The ultimate goal was to divert attention and conceal the team's tactical drills.

Reed knows the league's coaching staff's ability to study and crack strategies. The longer the secret weapon is kept under wraps, the longer the Kansas City Chiefs' advantage is fortified.

No wonder!

The Kansas City Chiefs' locker room showed no exclusion of Li Wei, watching him endure and bear all attacks, sacrificing his reputation for the team, embodying the principle of "those who wear the crown must bear its weight" with practical actions.

In the team, Li Wei's prestige likely did not diminish but instead increased.

Until now.

In the third week of the regular season, facing the intense impact of the Baltimore Ravens, the Kansas City Chiefs finally drew their swords for the first time!

The hurricane swept through the entire league.

Because of the Kansas City Chiefs, because of Mahomes, and more because of Li Wei.

Whether it was the truth behind locker room conflicts or the Kansas City Chiefs' new strategy, everything centered around Li Wei unfolded.

The league bore witness to it all!

The doubts, the complaints, the ungrateful murmurs vanished overnight, and the grand acclaim and discussions entirely revolved around Li Wei. Who had time to pay attention to those whining critics?

Perhaps the league was only just getting feverish, but there was one small office that was an exception.

San Francisco.

The Thursday night game ended, it was already midnight, yet the San Francisco 49ers' head coach's office was brightly lit, and heated discussions had begun.

Logically, they should have clocked out, but now, the core figures of the coaching team were all present and accounted for.

And the one stirring up all the turmoil was Mike-McDaniel.

In an NFL team's coaching staff, the head coach usually leads, followed by the offensive coordinator and defensive coordinator, managing separately.

But with the San Francisco 49ers, 1979-born Kyle Shanahan seemed youthful and bold, implementing reforms and demonstrating a resolve for innovation. Here, the offensive group was led by Shanahan himself, who was responsible for both the passing attack coordinator and ground attack coordinator; the defensive group was headed by the defensive coordinator, further divided into pass defense coordinator and ground defense coordinator.

At this moment, all these core individuals were present.

McDaniel, he was the ground attack coordinator.

Born in 1983, McDaniel was still young and loved expansive thinking, never able to sit still, with focusing on Li Wei being his crucial task now.

Every week, he meticulously studied Li Wei's game footage.

Tonight happened to be Thursday night football, so McDaniel took the opportunity to watch the game live.

Then, he couldn't believe what he saw. A strategy he had once idly thought of had actually been brought to life by the Kansas City Chiefs.

Not only implemented but executed with incredible sharpness.

While other coaching staffs in the league were still in shock and amazement, under Shanahan's summons, the San Francisco 49ers' coaching staff gathered overnight in the office to start researching immediately.

Typically, the league's weekly regular-season footage is uniformly uploaded on Sunday night; however, the San Francisco 49ers couldn't wait and recorded the second half of the game footage themselves to begin their analysis at the earliest opportunity.

Shanahan, his father was the NFL legendary coach Mike-Shanahan, who traversed the league for over three decades, a Hall of Fame-level figure with the Denver Broncos, leading the Denver Broncos to back-to-back Super Bowl championships in 1997 and 1998, even in the long history, he remains a prominent figure.

Burdened by his father's renown, the young Kyle Shanahan has continuously tried to prove himself; however, in the NFL, this task is not easy.

In fact, in the NFL, the phenomenon of "father and son soldiers" is quite common in coaching teams. The children of legendary coaches like Belichick and Reed join the team as their assistants but often struggle to escape their fathers' shadows, never making a name for themselves in the league.

Shanahan was no different.

In the 2017 season, like Li Wei and Mahomes, Shanahan finally landed his dream head coach job, taking over the San Francisco 49ers. Like McVay with the Los Angeles Rams, he was a leader in the coaching staff's youthful storm, eagerly ready to make a mark in the league.

So what happened?

McVay had already led the Los Angeles Rams into the Super Bowl, and Shanahan's San Francisco 49ers were struggling in the fight for the last place for two consecutive seasons.

When everyone in the league was talking about McVay, no one remembered Shanahan anymore. Especially under his father's eminent reputation, whenever people mentioned him, it was always with a sigh of regret.

This deeply pained Shanahan.

Shanahan longed to prove himself, a desire that grew stronger with time, striving for governance, sleeplessly devoted, spending all his time in the office.

Tonight was no exception either.

Shanahan raised his head and looked at McDaniel, a trace of determination in his eyes.

"Mike, are you sure?"

McDaniel solemnly nodded, "Kyle, one hundred percent sure."

Taking a deep breath, Shanahan decided, "Then let's give it a try."

The next day, Friday, at Levi's Stadium in San Francisco.

Since San Francisco relocated to this new stadium, it seemed they lost the key to victory, never making it to the playoffs again.

As a result, San Francisco 49ers fans have very mixed feelings about this stadium.

Moreover, the name of the stadium—

"Levi's," isn't that just "Li Wei's?"

It's unlucky.

For young quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, it was more of a curse.

Previously serving as Brady's backup with the New England Patriots, his name was always behind Brady's label; finally winning a chance to be a team's quarterback, but because of agent Donald Yee, he's constantly shadowed by Li Wei's name.

Even the stadium's name was... Li Wei.

Sometimes, Garoppolo couldn't help but wonder if the god of mischief had targeted him, deliberately using his life as a joke, setting obstacle after obstacle to test his soul.

Damn it!