In dominating fashion, the Philadelphia Eagles more than avenged a Super Bowl loss from two years ago on Sunday.
“God’s blessed us very much,” Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni told FOX Sports immediately after the game. “He gave us all the talents to be able to get here, so first and foremost, thanks to him.”
“We didn’t really care what anybody thought about how we won or their opinion,” Sirianni said. “All we wanted to do was win.”
Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts made sure a Super Bowl loss wouldn’t happen again as he threw for two touchdowns and rushed for one. Hurts went 17-22 for 221 yards passing, and he rushed for 72 yards on 11 carries.
“God is good, and he’s greater than all the highs and the lows, and I think personally, myself, I have been able to use every experience and learn from it—the good, the bad,” Hurts told FOX Sports after the game. “All of it [and] using it as fuel to pursue my own greatness, and I think I couldn’t do any of these things without the guys around me. We got a special group this year. We’re able to learn from the past and get some nice new pieces and get over that hump.”
The Eagles defense helped that cause by shutting down Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, as the defending champs didn’t score until late in the third quarter amid a 34–0 deficit. Eagles defensive back Cooper DeJean gave Mahomes and company a mountain to climb with a pick-six in the second quarter for a 17–0 lead. Hurts then buried the Chiefs before halftime with a 12-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver A.J. Brown for a 24–0.
Kansas City couldn’t adjust in the second half as the offensive line couldn’t hold off the Philadelphia pass rush, which characterized the first half. Mahomes sustained six sacks for 31 yards lost.
Hurts meanwhile put the nail in the Chiefs’ coffin with a 46-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver DeVonta Smith. Philadelphia tacked on two field goals in the fourth quarter for a 40–6 lead, and Kansas City’s two touchdowns in the final three minutes came with the game out of reach.
Mahomes went 21–32 for 257 yards and three touchdowns versus two interceptions, but his struggles with the pass rush kept his team out of the end zone most of the way. Two of his touchdown passes went to rookie wide receiver Xavier Worthy, who had eight receptions for 157 yards and gave the Chiefs some hope in the second half. Veteran wideout DeAndre Hopkins also had a touchdown catch amid his two receptions for 18 yards.
Kansas City also couldn’t get the run game going with just 49 yards on 11 attempts, and most of that came from Mahomes, who had 25 yards on four carries. Philadelphia’s defense produced six tackles for loss, including two by linebacker Josh Sweat and defensive tackle Milton Williams.
Sweat also had a team-best 2.5 sacks, and Williams had two sacks. Eagles defensive tackle Jordan Davis also stepped up with a sack and tackle for loss.
“This is the ultimate team game,” Sirianni told FOX Sports. “You can’t be great without the greatness of others. Great performance by everybody.”
The Eagles’ running game kept drives going, wearing out the Chiefs’ defense—despite the Chiefs limiting Eagles running back Saquon Barkley to 57 yards on 25 carries.
Barkley became a key addition to the Eagles in the offseason as a free agent signing from the New York Giants. He produced a season for the ages with 2,005 yards rushing and 13 touchdowns as the Eagles turned things around from a disappointing 2023 season.
Kansas City saw three-peat hopes turn to disappointment on Sunday after back-to-back Super Bowl wins over the Eagles and San Francisco 49ers the previous two seasons. The last time the Chiefs lost in a Super Bowl in blowout fashion—9–31—was in 2021 against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
