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Chiefs-Eagles in Super Bowl LIX: What We Learned from Philadelphia’s 40-22 win – NFL.com
Fangio delivers a defensive master class. In the lead-up to Super Bowl LIX, much of the conversation revolved around this legendary matchup of coordinators. It didn’t take Vic Fangio long to prove his superiority. Situationally, Fangio was excellent early. On third down during the Chiefs’ opening possession — a drive that began with a well-designed play for a first down — Fangio put one of most athletic defenders in Cooper DeJean on Travis Kelce, then added Reed Blankenship as a robber defender in Cover 1, plastering an Eagle to every pass catcher while eliminating Patrick Mahomes’ favorite third-down target, Kelce, from the equation. That play ended in a desperate heave by Mahomes that was almost intercepted and ended up proving to be a precursor of what was to come. Fangio complicated the picture for Mahomes, who struggled to find open targets even while the Eagles leaned on Cover 4 shells. This was possible because of Philadelphia’s effective front four, and by the time the Eagles held a 24-0 lead, it was clear who owned the more complete defense. Philadelphia’s Super Bowl triumph was built on an incredible offseason completed by Roseman and the right hires made by Nick Sirianni after their dreadful finish to the 2023 season. As they’d said all week, they needed to go through that experience to get here. But even they likely didn’t know it would be this emphatic.
How the Eagles Erased Patrick Mahomes From Super Bowl LIX – The Ringer
This win cements Fangio as one of the best defensive play callers in this era, as he finally adds a Lombardi Trophy to his list of accomplishments during his 38-year NFL coaching career. The Eagles wouldn’t have even been in a position to compete for a Super Bowl if it hadn’t been for his scheme and his staff’s development of raw, young players into big-time contributors. Before he took over this year, there were questions about whether edge rusher Nolan Smith Jr. and linebacker Nakobe Dean were starting-caliber players, whether Jordan Davis’s abilities as a run defender could impact winning, and whether rookie secondary players DeJean and Quinyon Mitchell could handle a complex scheme right out of college. Even a veteran like Josh Sweat, who seemingly took a big step backward in 2023 and took a pay cut in advance of this season, logged a game-high eight pressures and 2.5 sacks. All of those players made a difference in this game and have set themselves up to continue their dominance in years to come—even as veterans like Sweat, Darius Slay, and Williams may be phased out of the unit.
The Eagles’ 40-22 victory on Sunday doesn’t vindicate the 66-year-old coordinator. Fangio had long ago established himself as an innovator and builder of great defenses. He had already left his mark on the game of football. All that was missing was an elusive Super Bowl title. Or was it? “I heard a quote that Dean Smith [said] many years ago. If you guys remember, he went to a bunch of Final Fours before he finally won one,” Fangio said earlier in the home locker room at the Superdome. “And they asked him the next day, ‘How does it feel you got a monkey [off your back]?’ He said, ‘I’m the same coach today as I was yesterday. We just got a championship.’ “So I don’t look at it as it validates me or anything. It’s just a great accomplishment.”
The only player who was worse than Mahomes since 2000 was Rich Gannon in Super Bowl XXXVII, when he threw five interceptions (including three pick sixes) in the Raiders’ horrific 48-21 loss to the Buccaneers. If we look at the last seven years of the Super Bowl and filter out garbage time performance here’s how the QB ranks in EPA per dropback.
Handing out 10 awards from the Eagles’ win over the Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX – PhillyVoice
2) The ‘Other MVP’ Award: Vic Fangio. The Chiefs got a bunch of yards and some garbage time points, but this game was all but over by halftime, when the Eagles had 24 points and the Chiefs had 23 yards. Fangio masterminded a championship defense that played hard, smart, fast, and physical. He took one of the worst defenses in the NFL a year ago and turned them into the best in the NFL in 2024, bar none.
The Eagles Just Won The Super Bowl! – The Ringer’s Philly Special
That’s right! The 2024 Philadelphia Eagles destroyed the Kansas City Chiefs 40-22 to secure the second Super Bowl victory in franchise history. Sheil is joined by Brandon Lee Gowton of Bleeding Green Nation to discuss the momentous event in Eagles and Philadelphia history. What are the biggest takeaways from the lopsided win ()? Did Jalen Hurts finally silence the haters once and for all()? How did Vic Fangio finally get the best of Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid ()? Nick Sirianni deserves his flowers. He was the right coach for this team (). Is Howie Roseman the best GM in Philadelphia sports history ()?
Super Bowl highlights: The 6 biggest moments from the Eagles’ win over the Chiefs – BGN
There was a time when most Super Bowls were like this. I remember when the 49ers and Cowboys routinely blew out lesser opponents on the game’s biggest stage, when the Broncos and Bills lost huge seemingly every season. The Bears killed the Patriots, the Ravens smothered the Giants, the Giants and Washington football team battered Denver, and so on, and so on, and so on. It was a rarity to have a Super Bowl played down to the wire, but in the age of NFL free agency, most Super Bowls have been relatively close, if not downright thrilling. Last night, your Philadelphia Eagles authored a throw-back beatdown that was as impressive as anything we watched Dallas, San Francisco, Pittsburgh or anyone else author on the NFL’s biggest stage. Somehow, the 40-22 score didn’t come close to indicating just how thoroughly the Eagles dominated the best quarterback and best head coach in football and how completely they decimated an honest-to-goodness dynasty.
2 winners and 6 losers from the Chiefs lost to the Eagles in Super Bowl LIX – Arrowhead Pride
Head coach Andy Reid: Reid’s master class in coaching against the Buffalo Bills was followed by an absolutely puzzling performance on Sunday. The game plan didn’t work, and there weren’t any visible adjustments made. The makeshift offensive line probably should have been reshuffled when it was clear that the Eagles would overwhelm them. The Chiefs had a couple of tackles on the bench that could have helped. They have a fullback and extra tight ends; they have a deep playbook with some calls that typically make teams pay for getting too aggressive. Instead, the Chiefs were on their heels until it was too late.
Two years later, what a difference sure footing makes – PFT
Two years ago, an embarrassingly slick field took the edge off the Eagles’ pass rush in Super Bowl LVII. And that might have helped the Chiefs secure a championship. In Super Bowl LIX, the playing surface inside the Superdome was not an issue. And the Eagles took full advantage of the sure footing. Eagles safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson pointed out after last night’s game that he’d made that point on July 3, 2023: “Run that bowl back on legit grass, the Dline SMASH that Oline I’m sorry.” (Why July 3? That same day, we’d posted that the NFL was privately blaming the situation on the players for not wearing the right shoes.) It’s easy to say the field was the same for both teams. But when a slick field neutralizes the strength of one team and masks a weakness of another, it does indeed make a difference.
If you had to describe this win in three words it would be…tough, detailed, together. Okay, I’m just pandering to Nick Sirianni with that. He preached that message to his team this year and it resonated with them. This team was confident leading into the game. Not cocky, just confident. They believed in themselves and each other. The moment wasn’t too big for them. There was no fear of facing Mahomes. The Eagles played a great game and showed undoubtedly that they were the best team in the NFL this year. This is the best Eagles team I’ve ever seen. They had playmakers all over the lineup. The 2017 team didn’t have anyone like AJ. The 2022 team didn’t have anyone like Saquon. This team had it all and that showed on Sunday night. Howie Roseman did a brilliant job of building the best roster in the NFL. Nick Sirianni and his staff did a great job of having the team ready to play. The players delivered. What a special ending to a special season.
Nick Sirianni: Adversity of 2023 shaped Eagles’ 2024 title run – ESPN
The late-season collapse in 2023 was not fun at the time for anyone connected with the Philadelphia Eagles, and certainly not for coach Nick Sirianni. But Sirianni said Monday he’s happy for it now because it set up the Eagles for the 2024 season’s Super Bowl championship run. “I look back on last year and how last year ended and I’m grateful. As crazy as this sounds, I’m grateful how last year ended because it shaped us to who we are today [with] the adversity of the beginning of the year and the adversity through the season, through injuries, through ups and downs, through everything,’’ Sirianni said the morning after the Eagles beat the Kansas City Chiefs 40-22 in Super Bowl LIX.
What winning the Super Bowl tastes, smells, sounds, looks, and feels like for the Eagles – PHLY
Winning the Super Bowl tastes like Armand de Brignac champagne, with the gold bottles tossed from player to coach to executive and empty boxes becoming scavengers in the dance party. It could also taste like Open beer, which was chugged as easily as the Eagles dismantled and dethroned the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday in a 40-22 domination. Winning the Super Bowl smells like Honduran cigars, which dangled from Howie Roseman’s right hand while he danced and Lane Johnson’s mouth while he posed and awaited Super Bowl MVP Jalen Hurts when he finally arrived. The Eagles smoked victory cigars two weeks ago, but never with the gusto of Sunday. The strong waft greeted anyone who visited the locker room. Winning the Super Bowl sounds like Future and Lil Top and Kendrick Lamar and Veeze & Rylo Rodriguez, all part of the soundtrack that would only end so the Eagles could join family and friends at the victory party at the team hotel and Nick Sirianni received the attention he earned.
Super Bowl 59 Recap: Philadelphia Eagles 40, Kansas City Chiefs 22 – PFF
Mahomes finished 21-of-32 for 257 yards, three touchdowns, and two interceptions, with three big-time throws and three turnover-worthy plays. His worst mistakes proved costly — a pick-six midway through the second quarter and a late-second-quarter interception deep in his own territory, which immediately set up the Eagles in scoring range. At the heart of Mahomes’ struggles was the Eagles’ relentless pass rush, which sacked him six times — the most he has ever taken in a single game as an NFL quarterback. According to PFF’s initial analysis, Mahomes was pressured on 53.3% of his dropbacks outside of garbage time. He has faced a higher pressure rate only once in his career under those conditions — in his Super Bowl 55 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Doing it right: When the Eagles win Super Bowls, they do it right — first against Belichick, Brady and New England, now against Reid, Mahomes and Kansas City, and both interrupting what might have otherwise been a three-peat.Their 41-33 victory over the Patriots after the 2017 season featured the second-most points scored against a New England defense in the 429 total games Belichick coached the team. Their 40-22 victory Sunday handed the Chiefs their second-worst point differential in a game with Mahomes in the lineup (Kansas City lost 27-3 at Tennessee in 2021), even after two garbage-time K.C. touchdowns. These were signature victories of the highest order.
Roob’s Observations: Eagles dominate Chiefs for Super Bowl redemption victory – NBCSP
10. And the beauty of this team is that they’re not going away. They’ll be back. This is a roster built to last and a team built to compete and everything is in place for the Eagles to enjoy sustained success, not just this year, not just next year but for years to come. Seventeen of the Eagles’ starters Sunday in New Orleans are 27 or younger. Cooper DeJean, Quinyon Mitchell, Jalen Carter, Nolan Smith, Jordan Davis, Mekhi Becton, Reed Blankenship, DeVonta Smith, Landon Dickerson, Cam Jurgens and Jalen Hurts are all 26 or younger. This is a franchise with a general manager who’s built three Super Bowl rosters in eight years and knows how to replenish the talent on the roster, one of only three head coaches ever to take two teams to the Super Bowl in his first four years, a quarterback who’s 42-9 in the last 51 games he’s started and finished. Since 2000 – a quarter of a century – the Eagles have had five losing seasons, four Super Bowl appearances and two championships. This is a franchise that has made the Super Bowl a realistic annual goal. That’s the standard now. Anything less is a disappointment. This team is not going anywhere.
Eagles legend to Tom Brady: You’re our ‘good luck charm’ – NJ.com
“It’s really cool that Tom Brady got to be there for the Eagles’ two Super Bowl wins!” wrote Nick Foles, the Eagles’ Super Bowl LII MVP, on X. “He might be a good luck charm. Have a great night!”
Spadaro: The Eagles are Super Bowl Champions! – PE.com
What a defensive performance! Wow. Just wow. The No. 1-ranked defense in the NFL held the Chiefs to – and this is not a typo – 3 rushing yards on 3 carries. Quarterback Patrick Mahomes was just 6 of 14 for 33 passing yards, and the Eagles played such an aggressive, perfect “Crush Rush” that Mahomes could not escape with his legs. Philadelphia registered three quarterback sacks in the first half – 1 ½ by edge Josh Sweat, one by tackle Milton Williams and a half-sack from rookie edge Jalyx Hunt. Kansas City managed just 23 total net yards and, oh yeah, the Eagles took the football away twice – an interception that birthday boy Cooper DeJean returned 38 yards for a touchdown to put Philadelphia ahead 17-0, and then one later in the second quarter when linebacker Zack Baun dived for an interception from Mahomes to set up the offense at the Kansas City 14-yard line. Hurts made the Chiefs pay when he connected with Brown for a 12-yard touchdown that sent the Eagles-heavy crowd at the Caesar’s Superdome go absolutely crazy. And the Eagles continued on Kansas City’s first possession of the second half, registering sacks from tackle Jordan Davis and Sweat, then tackling Mahomes on third and long, to get off the field. It was a stark contrast to the Super Bowl from two seasons earlier, when Kansas City began its climb from a 10-point halftime deficit to score a touchdown and put the Eagles’ defense on its heels.
The Philadelphia Eagles won the Super Bowl and that stinks for Cowboys fans – Blogging The Boys
Some Cowboys fans from what I have seen seem to feel that this Eagles win will help incite change from the team’s front office. The idea there is that the embarrassment felt could or would lead to change, but consider what happened last time Philly won it all. In the 2018 offseason the Cowboys saw Jason Witten retire (obviously he came back a year later) and cut Dez Bryant before going with their infamous wide-receiver-by-committee approach. They in no way acted with urgency born from Philly tasting the glory that has so long eluded them. Perhaps things will be different this time around. The Eagles have proven, twice now, that by being aggressive and relentless with building your roster that good things can (and likely will) happen.
What New York Giants’ GM Joe Schoen got wrong about the Saquon Barkley situation – Big Blue View
Where GM Joe Schoen miscalculated was everywhere else. As SI’s Greg Bishop wrote, Barkley is “not another disposable number on a spreadsheet. Never was. Never will be.” That is where Schoen got it wrong. The damage wasn’t done on the field. It was done in the locker room. It was done in the fan base. It was done to the organization’s reputation, turning them into the butt of jokes and the target of vehement criticism that isn’t going away. Sometimes what makes sense philosophically or on a balance sheet, like a bad team not paying an oft-injured 27-year-old running back big money or using that money on the theoretically more important position of offensive line, doesn’t make sense in real life. People matter. What they mean to their teammates and to the heart of an organization matters. Sometimes you have to look up from your spreadsheet and see the forest for the trees. That is the lesson every Giants fan should hope Schoen takes from this experience.
It’s back to business for the Saints and their pursuit of Kellen Moore – Canal Street Chronicles
After the Eagles dominate 40-22 victory against the Kansas City Chiefs last night, Eagles’ owner Jeffrey Lurie was asked if he expects to lose Moore this week. Lurie said, “I do. Unfortunately, we’re gonna have to wish him the very best with New Orleans.” After today’s post-game press conferences, Moore will fly back to Philadelphia with the team. As for the Saints, now that the game is over, they can get back to business, officially meet with Moore one more time and draft up a contract to lock up their guy. I would then expect an official announcement sometime later this week.
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