“It feels good to get that monkey off of our back. It just feels good,” Jackson said. “We’ve got to move on to Detroit now. We didn’t win the Super Bowl yet; it’s just one game. We’ve got to just keep staying focused.”
Offensive coordinator Greg Roman, a lightning rod of criticism from the fan base, called a great game despite so many key players missing on offense, kept Steve Spagnuolo’s defense off balance and never strayed far from the run game.
Martindale, who was widely criticized following the Raiders’ loss for blitzing too much, curbed his normal aggressive ways and showed Mahomes myriad different looks, very few of them involving blitzes.