The Philadelphia Eagles are back on top of the NFL summit. Behind a MVP performance from quarterback Jalen Hurts and a defensive masterclass that harried, hit and harassed Patrick Mahomes into one of the worst games of his career, the Eagles steamrolled to a 40-22 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday night in New Orleans that wasn’t as narrow as the scoreline suggests.
The 59th Super Bowl was the second meeting in three years between Philadelphia and Kansas City on the NFL’s biggest stage, with the Eagles still nursing the scars of the first installment: a heart-stopping 38-35 Chiefs win in Arizona in which a hobbled Mahomes orchestrated a near-perfect second half to overturn a 10-point deficit that erased Hurts’ career-best.
Hurts threw for 221 yards and two touchdowns, running for 72 yards and adding a third score on a Tush Push – the result more than making up for a stat line that wasn’t quite as flashy as two years ago.
The Chiefs went into half time with no points on the board. They managed to eek out 20 points in the second half but they were is a deep hole that was too steep to get out of with a final of 20 to 40.