Ryan Bautista | News Editor
February 13, 2025
TAKE COVER! The Eagles fans are rioting! Sorry, it’s a force of habit. Let me try again…The Eagles fans are celebrating! They just won the Super Bowl! Wow, it must have been a hard-fought win, what was the score? …You’re joking. Well…that was not what anyone had expected.
The Philadelphia Eagles beat the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX on Sunday 40-22. Yes, 40-22. The 18-point win margin is the biggest since Super Bowl LV when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers won by 22 over…hey, the Kansas City Chiefs. Sophomore Ben Wyman said he was “happy the Chiefs didn’t win since it would have been expected and most likely boring.”
We knew that there would be questions following the game, just not that they would all have the same answer. Was it a good game? No. Did Mahomes and Kelce carry the Chiefs? No. Did Saquon Barkley have a good game? No. Did the refs favor the Chiefs? No. Did the Eagles overuse the “tush push?” No. Honestly, what happened?
The famous black magic actually worked against the Chiefs in this game. Their offensive line was gone, banished to Disney World early, and forced to wait in line for Space Mountain, never to be seen again. I mean, it was atrocious. The Eagles could just waltz straight through the line with no resistance. I would not want to be part of that offensive line in that locker room wearing my Mickey Mouse ears after letting my team down.
Moving on to the elephant in the room…the Eagles’ 40 points. That is the most points the Chiefs have given up since 2020. Now, I’m going to look that statistic in the face and say…the Chief’s defense did a pretty good job.
I know, I made fun of them in the last article, but they did the best with what they got. They constantly played from awful field position thanks to interceptions, a fumble, and constant punts. The defense forced the Eagles to make several long field goals and only gave up two long touchdown throws to both A.J. Brown and DeVonta Smith. Oh yeah, and the infamous “tush push” for the first score. But who counts that–excluding the scorekeeper.
In addition to that, for all the hype he got, Barkley was a non-factor in the game. He only had 57 yards rushing and no touchdowns, with his longest run being for 10 yards. He can normally do that in his sleep with Cowboy boots from Dallas weighing him down. So hats off to the Chiefs’ defense for that.
However, the Chiefs’ defensive performance is like a snowflake compared to the avalanche of the Eagles’ defense. In the first half, the Chiefs had 23 total yards. The Eagles had that many 3 minutes into the game. Mahomes was intercepted twice, once on a Cooper DeJean pick-six on his birthday. Mahomes was also sacked a career-high of six times, and he was pressured seemingly on every play. Sure the Chiefs got a couple of points when the Eagles stopped trying as hard, but make no mistake about how dominant the Eagles’ defense was. Sophomore Erik Troester was shocked to learn that “the Eagles never blitzed, it was just four rushers” doing all of the damage.
Of course, after the confetti fell, the tradition of the quarterback winning the Super Bowl MVP continued. I don’t have a problem with Hurts winning it; he played a good game. It just seems that no matter what happens, the MVP goes to the winning quarterback, as it has since 2012. Troester wished, “Someone on the defense like Montez Sweat won the MVP since they were so good.”
No matter who won MVP, the Eagles’ win and the Chiefs’ loss resulted in a Super Bowl not easy to forget.
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