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Highlights and lowlights from Philadelphia’s big win over Kansas City!
Kendrick Lamar tapped out the Kansas City Chiefs at the appropriate moment Sunday night when it flashed “Game Over” in lights in the Caesars Superdome after his Super Bowl halftime performance.
By then, the Eagles had pretty much forced the Chiefs to tap out.
The Eagles captured their second Super Bowl in franchise history with a dominant 40-22 victory, breaking up Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs’ historic dynasty bid of three-straight Super Bowl championships.
It was impressive. It was thorough. It was complete.
And they did it without Saquon Barkley making his usual impact.
The Chiefs did not cross midfield until there was 2:22 left in the third quarter. By then, the Eagles held a commanding 34-0 lead and had held the Chiefs to 0-for-8 on third-down conversions.
The Eagles’ defense had turned all-world quarterback Patrick Mahomes into a skittish passer, rushing his throws and running for his life all night. They sacked Mahomes six times for 31 yards.
This is probably the greatest Eagles team in franchise history, considering their amazing balance as the NFL’s No. 1 defense and the No. 8 offense, fueled by the NFL’s No. 1 rusher in Barkley, who ran for a single-season franchise record 2,005 yards.
And now Nick Sirianni, Jalen Hurts, Vic Fangio, Kellen Moore, Darius Slay, DeVonta Smith, A.J. Brown, Jordan Mailata, Jalen Carter, Zack Baun, Cooper DeJean, Jeremiah Trotter Jr.—and Saquon Barkley are Super Bowl champions.
No one can question them again.
Defense was the difference. They destroyed the Chiefs. After three quarters, the Eagles had outgained Kansas City 303 to 155 and were leading 34-6. They scored 17 points off three turnovers.
Hurts was named MVP after completing 17 of 22 passes for 221 yards and two touchdowns.
The Eagles ended one dynasty.
Can they start one of their own? This is a young team, with a young defense, and an offense that features Hurts, Barkley, Brown, Dallas Goedert and the league’s best offensive line. There will be some moves that need to be made, like first and foremost locking in Baun and Milton Williams, but if this team can come back close to its current incarnation, they have the foundation to repeat.
There was a mountain of good, some bad, and some ugly, in the Eagles’ brilliant Super Bowl victory over to the Kansas City Chiefs.
Jake Elliott’s two fourth-quarter field goals of 48 and 50 yards putting the exclamation points on the Eagles’ historic victory.
DeVonta Smith’s 46-yard touchdown reception with 2:40 left in the third quarter that sealed the victory. It gave the Eagles a commanding 34-0 lead and further deflated and very flat Chiefs’ team.
Avonte Maddox knocking down the Mahomes’ intended pass to DeAndre Hopkins on a fourth-and-five at the Chiefs’ 46 with 2:47 to play in the third quarter.
Hurts’ 16-yard bolt on a third-and-five to the Eagles’ 41 on the Eagles’ first drive of the second half, followed by his...
