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49ers' Kyle Shanahan addresses ghosts of 28-3: 'I was very hard on myself'

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — To be honest, Kyle Shanahan doesn’t think much about that night. Not anymore. Not the way you do.

Sure, he has gone over the painstaking details, considered different scenarios, alternate outcomes. But he doesn’t view, or critique, his last Super Bowl appearance like the masses.

Three years have passed since that epic collapse on the game’s greatest stage. But Shanahan’s perspective on his final moments coaching on the Falcons’ sideline — and his team’s unfathomable failure to seal a victory with a 28-3 advantage over the Patriots — hasn’t really changed.