The Philadelphia Eagles snapped the Kansas City Chiefs’s dynasty and crushed them 40-22, Sunday night at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans to take over the LIX Super Bowl. No one would have imagined a sweep as spectacular as the one the Eagles tipped the Chiefs.
They knocked down quarterback Patrick Mahomes six times, intercepted him twice, and forced a fumble.
In this way, Philadelphia prevented the Chiefs from becoming the first team in NFL history to win three crowns in a row.
For the Eagles, this is their second league title as they reached the first in 2018 and charge a rematch of the other against this same rival (38-35) in the Super Bowl LVII of 2023.
Still, Kansas City may be proud of coach Andy Reid and Mahomes as they allowed their team to reach five of the last six editions of the NFL’s top game.
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Jalen Hurts had a fantastic game. He completed 17 of 22 passes for 221 yards and two touchdowns, with one interception. And then on the ground, he scored a touchdown and gained 72 yards.
He was named the Most Valuable Player of the Super Bowl. Mahomes, meanwhile, completed 21 of 32 passes for 257 yards and three touchdowns, with two interceptions.
Warring end Travis Kelce caught only 39 yards. The Eagles hit first. There were two arbitral errors at the start of the battle that harmed each of the teams, but it was like some kind of compensation. And Philadelphia was the one that took the best advantage of the situation.
After a long pass from Hurts, due to interference from the Chiefs, the Eagles continued their attack until they reached the first yard and from there they pushed to score for their quarterback when they played 8:42 minutes of the game.
The Eagles continued to hammer very hard. As a result, kicker Jake Elliot increased the count to 10-0 with a 48-yard field goal when they played 6:28 minutes into the second quarter.
The hardest hit came, however, when Cooper DeJean intercepted the ovoid to Mahomes and returned it 38 yards for a touchdown when they played 7:44 minutes into the second period and stretched the lead 17-0 for Philadelphia.
Mahomes in trouble for demolitions
In the same drive, in the previous two actions, the Eagles’s defensive had knocked out Mahomes twice in a row.
After Philadelphia’s score and when the ovoid returned to Kansas City’s quarterback again they knocked him down and on this occasion, Mahomes seemed to drain from his left leg, which detracted from his mobility.
With 1:50 minutes to go before the second quarter, Zack Baun intercepted Mahomes on the Chiefs’s nine-yard.
Hurt capitalized on that great action from his partner and with a 12-yard pass to A.J. Brown put the tally 24-0 in favor of the Eagles to go to rest.
It was the biggest halftime lead in Super Bowl history and also revealed the reigning NFL star-studded champion performance.
In the first half of the Super Bowl, Mahomes had been knocked down three times and intercepted twice; Kansas City’s offense had produced just 23 yards in total, of which only three per ground. With those figures, they were going nowhere.
The Chief’s defense, however, had not been bad. He had limited the Eagles after Barkley, who had managed 2,005 yards in the first half.
Hurts, for his part, had produced 123 yards. The difference was that Kansas City’s offensive line couldn’t protect Mahomes. Barkley finished with 57 yards on the ground and 40 in the air.
Upon the resumption of the game, Mahomes was knocked down twice in a row and the trend of the first half remained, making Kansas City’s hopes not many to turn a game that was slipping out of his hands.
To stay in the fight, the Chiefs were the ones forced to score.
The Eagles were unstoppable to the end
The opposite happened. Elliot increased the count with a 29-yard field goal, at 9:38 minutes into the third period, to lengthen the 27-0 difference, and it looked like they had placed the last nail in the Kansas City Coffs.
The cake cherry came 2:47 minutes to finish the third quarter. Hurts gave DeVonta Smith a 46-yard pass for a touchdown and the 34-0 tally was insurmountable.
Just 34 minutes before going into the fourth period, Kansas City was able to score a touchdown after a 24-yard pass from Mahomes to Xavier Worthy.
The Chiefs then failed to convert two points and the board was 34-6. From 48 yards, Elliot increased the count 37-6 with a field goal at 5:04 minutes into the fourth period. Although the win was virtually assured, the Eagles did not want to give the Chiefs a chance to react and instead continued to hammer and score.
Elliot himself scored from 50 yards, with 8:05 minutes on the clock to raise the board 40-6. As if to clear the honor, Mahomes closed with great dignity, he passed to DeAndre Hopkins for a seven-yard touchdown and then gave Justin Watson a serve for the conversion and set the tally 40-14.
Then, with 1:56 minutes left on the clock, he gave a 50-yard pass to Worthy for a touchdown and then with the conversion to Hopkins sealed the board 40-22.
