New Orleans – Jalen Hurts danced in the locker room, a cigar between his teeth and a beer in his right hand.
He pulverized a saquon barkley shirtless until the box no longer contains anything to spray, a last transfer of the quarter-arre of the philadelphia eagles to his star while they were celebrating a Victory 40-22 Super Bowl Lix against double reigning champion Kansas City Chiefs.
The Eagles were half an hour deep in their celebration when Hurts was treating Barkley in the shower to which he had already treated himself on several occasions. The owner of the team, Jeffrey Lurie, had already danced with the Lombardi trophy opposite the wide AJ Brown receiver; Managing Director Howie Roseman had already raised his hands in the air while he was passing with his secondary.
Edge Rusher Nolan Smith had already deplored the end of the alcohol diet in a cardboard box full of peanut packaging, while the defensive platform Jalen Carter said on the celebration standing at the top of his locker.
The Oakley Champagne glasses and the metal channels of the Super Bowl Lix developed the neon -lit cave.
The celebration was appropriate, not only because it looked like a redemption of two seasons after the chiefs reached a basket with 8 seconds to play in regulation to escape 38-35 against this same franchise. The celebration was also appropriate because the players and the coaches celebrated alongside the teammates of other posts and other career durations, coaches and managers sprinkled in the mixture. It was a deeply integrated celebration for a deeply integrated team.
The Eagles had won their connection and “conviviality” in trumpet. They have now celebrated this same victory with blurred lines between the contributors who have produced a surprisingly complete victory.
The fact that this list was able to beat the chiefs should not have surprised: The Philadelphia Talent Pool was deeper than Kansas City this season.
But while the quarter-back of the Chiefs Patrick Mahomes was heading in the superdome on Sunday afternoon in a midnight green suit perhaps not coordinated which made it appear ready to live without rent on the other touch line, the eagles had reasons to be wary.
Even at half-time, at the top of 24-0, the Eagles implied to keep a collective foot on the pedal. The offer to three peat of the chiefs would have been a first NFL, but a dramatic victory of the chiefs became almost expected for a team which claimed 11 of its 15 victories in the regular season by a score or less.
“The speech was:” Stay just locked up, stay on the point – it’s Pat Mahomes with which we are dealing, “said their messaging at halftime. “Be ready. Be ready for him to answer and continue. »»
The Eagles were ready. The chiefs were not.
Stop Mahomes a safer route to victory than to stop Saquon
If the first match plan of the Chiefs was to contain Barkley, they largely succeeded.
The back which had an average of 5.8 yards per race in its 2000 yards’ damage season has only managed Pop on the largest scene; At halftime, he had only won 34 melee yards on 15 keys.
The problem with the Kansas City plan: The Eagles did not build a team that relied on the traditional Barkley production to win. Philadelphia built a power with a defense that made mortal Mahomas and an offense that intimidated opponents all the season with transfer recipes by the week.
Long before Barkley raised the 97 yards of the melee with which he finally celebrated his 28th anniversary, the Eagles had delivered a clinic on complementary football.
In the first quarter, Hurts found the acquisition of the August Jahan Dotson trade for a gain of 27 yards unless the goal line, the pass helped by the Brukley Blitz pick-up. When Dotson did not succeed, the Eagles reminded the chefs the inevitable: could the first score of the Super Bowl come other than a Tash push?
Philadelphia’s defense rewarded his offense with a three-past-out, but during the follow-up, Hurts was hit on a deep target for Brown that the Bryan Cook security chiefs have rather jumped and caught. Would Kansas City transform a deficit of almost two scores in equality? Philadelphia’s defense has rather arrived with three others and the Eagles, soon extending their advance to 10 points.
Where some teams would unconsciously shed their pressure with such a cushion, Philadelphia composed even more intensity one day when They only needed four rushers to torment Mahomes. The chiefing quarter was dismissed twice and then intercepted while launching the race in third and 16. The recruited corner half Cooper Dejean, who, like Barkley, celebrated his birthday, followed the path of his blockers towards the Goal area for a choice 6.
The acquisition of the Zack Baun off-season would catch an interception of diving of Mahomas before half-time, the second of the three dishes to remember from a defense that resets the quarter career record with six bags.
Philadelphia never let the chiefs are in both scores after half-time, the Kansas City Center Creed Humphrey said that after the match, Philadelphia did not surprise the chiefs as much as they “played harder ».
While the game escaped, Hurts also made 293 melee yards, three touched and a smuggling side of 119.7. The Eagles won without a touch of Barkley, whose jubilant celebrations did not reflect the role he played or did not play.
“Oh, guy, she looks prettier in person,” said Barkley about the Lombardi trophy. “It’s better in person than in Madden, I will tell you that playing as a child is all you dream of.”
The Eagles plan to contain Mahomes opened the road to victory more effectively than the chiefs to contain Barkley. Philadelphia put pressure on Mahomas on 38.1% of the decreases despite the statistics of Never Blitz, by giving the reason for the midnight quarter well suitable to see Red.
The pressures of the four men of the defensive coordinator of the Eagles Vic Fangio will haunt Mahomes.
“Vic gives us the call, we do not question him and he puts us in the positions to play the games,” said Rusher Edge Josh Sweat, whose six total pressures included 2.5 bags and four pressures on The first and second trials, next to the statistics. “I don’t know how he does. We will simply execute it, and we bring our technique and we do it. »»
Eagles has built a franchise that has no to evil Brady-Belichick, Mahomes-Reid
After the locker room lights were lit at 10:59 p.m. local time, the music occurring occasionally for breaths before still resurfacing for vibrations, Lurie addressed a handful of journalists in the corridor between the locker room and the Team bathrooms.
His quarter-arre had just taken a moment to sit in the corridor with the Lombardi trophy. Lurie was not surprised that the same injuries that had ahead of Mahomes in the defeat of the Super Bowl now have ahead of Mamiles in a victory.
Lurie was delighted that the strategy he and Roseman has committed to working, Philadelphia winning his second Super Bowl in eight years with various head coaches, quarter-back and defensive approaches.
“He is the best director general of football and he still thinks of what could improve the team, 365 days a year,” said Lurie about his alignment architect who found key contributors to the draft and in free agency, of Australian rugby and Special team team of the city even in which they have now hoisted the Lombardi trophy. “It is not opposed to the risk. He is aggressive. That’s what I want.
“A future GM of the fame of fame.”
The assertion did not only make the two super bowl victories and three appearances of the Super Bowl, which followed during the decade since Roseman was briefly soggy of her football management. It was also a franchise that has now thwarted two dynastic teams on the biggest scene: the 2017 Philadelphia season, Lombardi, came by beating the quarter-coach duo Tom Brady and Bill Belichick, while this Ci has shot Mahomes and Andy Reid.
Reid himself had contributed to the loss of the chiefs, the Philosophies of the line of loir He taught in Roseman During their 13 years, working together in Philadelphia who finally returned to win the physics battle against a former team of offensive line players. The Eagles do not minimize how clear racing tracks and pocket protection increase their attack, and they do not underestimate how a frantic defensive front (four men) disturbs the timing and the quarter-back roads.
“It was always as if our line where could be better than their d-line and that our line D could be better than their line O,” said Roseman a few days earlier, “we had the chance to win a lot matches.
On Sunday, the Eagles won the most important match of everyone.
They did it with Jubilance and Employment, a casting of players like Brown ready to avenge the loss of the Super Bowl which, according to Lurie, has always made them angry, celebrating new additions like Barkley, whose previous teams do not were not close to this summit.
In a shower of champagne and beer, the confetti and the Lombardi poses, they changed their hats of champion of the Super Bowl Lix, knowing that the victory took more than a simple of them – their group with several heels , Whack-A-Mole, ultimately proving the perfect recipe to dislodge less versatile chefs.
For the night, it was enough.
“We cannot rewrite history or do anything in the past,” said Brown, “but we can do it.
“Make sure the green confetti fell in the end.”
