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Eagles top Chiefs to win Super Bowl, led by Jalen Hurts and a brilliant defensive performance
- Jalen Hurts and head coach Nick Sirianni hold the Lombardi Trophy at the end of Super Bowl LIX. (Photo by Chandan Khanna / AFP)
- Jalen Hurts lost his starting job in college. He wasn’t a first-round draft pick. Even after leading his team to a Super Bowl, there were questions how much he could give the Philadelphia Eagles when compared to the NFL’s elite quarterbacks.
- On Sunday night, in an emphatic win over the Kansas City Chiefs at Super Bowl LIX, he got his moment. As well as his own personal trophy.
- Hurts was named the Super Bowl MVP of 2025 after a 17-of-21 passing performance with 221 yards, two touchdowns and an interception, plus 72 rushing yards and a touchdown on the ground in a 40-22 win.
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- Tom Brady and the New England Patriots couldn’t finish the job. The Miami Dolphins and Pittsburgh Steelers of the 1970s were incredible teams but fell short too. The 1980s San Francisco 49ers and 1990s Dallas Cowboys were NFL royalty but their streaks stopped at two Super Bowls in a row.
- There have been 59 Super Bowls played and still no team has won three of them in a row. The Chiefs’ quest for a three-peat starts over at zero after they were thoroughly dominated by the Philadelphia Eagles 40-22 in Super Bowl LIX. It was one of the most one-sided games in Super Bowl history, which was shocking given the stature of the Chiefs coming in.
- It was supposed to be a coronation for the Chiefs. How many times in the week leading up to the game was it uttered that it’s impossible to beat Patrick Mahomes and Andy Reid in a big game? Of all the possible results for this Super Bowl, the only one that didn’t seem possible was the Eagles blowing out Kansas City, but it happened. The Eagles defense unfathomably made Mahomes look like one of the worst players on the field in the first half as they built a 24-0 halftime lead. Mahomes had two interceptions that led directly to 14 Eagles points, one on a pick 6 by Philadelphia rookie Cooper DeJean.
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- No three-peat for the Kansas City Chiefs, and Philly is surely ready to party.
- On a 15-play drive that ate up over five minutes of clock, the Chiefs made a dent in the Eagles’ lead, making it 40-12.
- The Eagles are the ninth team to score 40 points in a Super Bowl — the previous eight are 8-0 — and are the first team to do so since the Eagles did it to beat the Patriots in Super Bowl 52. Philly leads by 34 with 8:01 left.
- Chris Jones is looked at by the training staff in the third quarter against the Philadelphia Eagles during Super Bowl LIX at Caesars Superdome on February 09, 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images)
- He’s up to 72 yards after a 17-yard run, which is a new high for a quarterback in a Super Bowl. The record he broke? His own record of 70 yards from Super Bowl 57.
- The Eagles opened the drive after the K.C. touchdown with a 4-yard run by Saquon Barkley, who has 47 rushing yards in the game. While it’s been tough sledding for Barkley today, with 76 yards of offense — he’s got 29 receiving yards — the plan has been an old-school approach from the Eagles. Barkley touched it 23 times in the first three quarters.
- Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley (26) runs during the second half of the NFL Super Bowl 59 football game against the Kansas City Chiefs, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
- Kansas City can’t complete the 2-point conversion, so it’s 34-6 Philly.
- And the Chiefs seem to finally have some momentum on offense.
- But no first down, so the Chiefs had to go for it on 4th and 5 and Mahomes’ pass was broken up.
