What to know about the Eagles 2025 Super Bowl title
In a Super Bowl rematch rife with storylines but low on drama, the Philadelphia Eagles crushed the Kansas City Chiefs 40-22 Sunday at the Superdome in New Orleans, earning the franchise’s second Super Bowl and denying the Chiefs what would have been a historic three-peat.
Their second Super Bowl meeting in three seasons held nothing of the intrigue of their first. Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts threw for two touchdowns and rushed for a third, and kicker Jake Elliott connected on four field goals.
Along with 221 yards passing, Hurts also led the team in rushing with 72 yards on the ground. Despite throwing one early pick, his performance garnered him Super Bowl MVP.
It was vindication for an Eagles team that was criticized throughout the season for appearing to lack cohesion under head coach Nick Siriani, and sometimes appeared out of sync.
“That’s a great football team, and we had to come out and play our best, and we did,” a jubilant Siriani said after the game. “…Let’s run this back.”
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Hurts and the Eagles got their revenge for the 38-35 Super Bowl loss to the Chiefs two years ago that was mired by a controversial holding call in the closing minutes.
“Personally, myself, I’ve just been able to use every experience and learn from it,” Hurts said. “The good, the bad, all of it, using it as fuel to pursue my own greatness. I couldn’t do any of these things without the guys around me.”
Even more impressive was that the Eagles resounding victory came despite a lackluster performance from All-Pro running back Saquon Barkley, who rushed 25 times for 57 yards.
Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes struggled mightily throughout the night, throwing two interceptions, one that was returned for a touchdown, and losing a fumble on a strip-sack. He was sacked six times in total, as the Eagles dominated on both sides of the ball.
Mahomes had more interceptions Sunday, two, than in his other 20 playoff games combined, according to CBS Sports’ Jeff Kerr.
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The Eagles opened the scoring midway through the first quarter with a rushing touchdown from Hurts on their patented “tush push” play, giving them a 7-0 lead. A 48-yard Jake Elliott field goal midway through the second quarter extended their lead to 10-0.
Then the floodgates opened. Mahomes threw an interception that was returned for a 38-yard touchdown by rookie cornerback Cooper DeJean, on his 22nd birthday no less.
With under two minutes to play in the first half, Mahomes threw his second pick, this time to Eagles linebacker Zack Baun, deep in Chiefs territory. That set up a 12-yard touchdown catch for Eagles receiver A.J. Brown moments later to extend the lead to 24-0.
Elliott converted on a 27-yard field goal midway through the third quarter to give the Eagles a 27-0 lead. When the Chiefs failed to convert a fourth-down play on the following drive, the Eagles delivered what was the dagger when Hurts connected with Devontae Smith on a 46-yard touchdown pass to push the margin to 34-0.
The Chiefs finally got on the board late in the third quarter when Mahomes hit Xavier Worthy for a 24-yard touchdown. The scoring drive also marked the first time in the game the Chiefs offense had gotten into Eagles territory.
The Chiefs scored two garbage-time touchdowns to keep the margin respectable, but it was too little too late.
This is only the second Lombardi Trophy of the Eagles storied franchise. Their first came in 2018 when backup quarterback Nick Foles led a shocking playoff run that culminated in the Eagles defeating Tom Brady’s New England Patriots in a Super Bowl LII shootout.
And it was Brady who called Sunday’s Super Bowl for Fox.
President Trump, meanwhile, was in attendance at Sunday’s Big Game, the first sitting president to attend a Super Bowl. But he departed at around halftime and returned to Washington, D.C. In a pretaped Fox interview that aired just prior to the game, Mr. Trump had predicted a Chiefs win.
Before kickoff, the president came onto the field and met with first responders and survivors of the New Year’s Day truck attack on Bourbon Street which killed 14 people.
