New Orleans – Defense can still win championships in the NFL. Especially the defense of Philadelphia Eagles.
Philadelphia achieved a 40-22 dominant victory in the Super Bowl 59 thanks to one of the best defensive performances in the history of the title game, which was against one of the best quartbacks in the history of the NFL. And while the whole unit played well, the defensive line of Philadelphia in particular left its mark on Sunday.
The Eagles pass, the Field Marshal of the Kansas City, Patrick Mahomes harassed, thoroughly, saying goodbye to a whopping six times, the maximum that has been fired in a game in his career. In addition to the times that was really taken to the ground, twice while the fever attacked him, he was intercepted. And in one of the bags, it was stripped for another rotation.
“The defense wins championships,” said the MVP of the Super Bowl, Jalen Hurts. “We saw how they played today. We saw the difference they made in the game. They gave us opportunities, they gave us short fields. And we can do what we do. “
Multiple defenders of Philadelphia got into the party: the external supporter Josh Sweat had 2.5 captures, the defensive wing Milton Williams had two, and the defensive Tackle Jordan Davis had one. Sweat had the case of having been MVP, since he led his team both in captures and in pressures.
The Chiefs offensive line had problems everywhere. Davis and his Eagles partner, Jalen Carter, constantly collapsed the medium in the pocket, allowing their edge corridors to take advantage of the unique coverage outside.
Exactly how blunt was the defensive line of Philadelphia? Defensive coordinator Vic Fangio Blitzed Mahomes a large total of zero times in its 42 setbacks, according to the statistics of the next generation of the NFL. And the Eagles still pressed Mohamses 16 times even though they never sent an additional corridor.
At the end of the first half, when the score was 24-0, Mohamses had been pressed at a higher rate (47.1%) than its termination of completion (42.9%).
The lack of bombing had a domino effect, since Philadelphia was able to maintain its secondary school in the coverage of the area during most of the night. Not only did that allow the Eagles to remove most of the big plays on the top; The area also prevented Mohamses from taking advantage of man’s coverage for fighting opportunities.
“This year we have been able to get home with our career of four men … and we could get home today too,” said Eagles chief coach Nick Sirianni. “We do what we believe we should do to win, not what someone else believes we have to do. This was the way we felt we needed to do it. ”
The result was an unfortunate offensive performance by Kansas City and one of the worst games of the Mohamses race.
The 22 points that the Chiefs scored on Sunday were their least amount of postseason and the least amount in a Super Bowl since they lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the Super Bowl 55 and noted only nine. (And those 22 points are a bit inflated, since 16 of them arrived in the last quarter with the game well out of control).
“They played better than us from beginning to end,” said Mohamses. “We didn’t start how we wanted. Ball losses hurt. I take all the blame for that. Those ball losses balance at the time of the game, and capitalized. ”
The Philadelphia formula used to win, the heavy pressure with its four strikers, was similar to the one that the Buccaneers used in the Super Bowl 55, which presented another lower performance of mahomes. But the Eagles defensive line is not the type of unit that can be easily recreated.
Williams, Carter, Davis and the defensive wing Nolan Smith Jr. were recruited by Philadelphia in the four drafts of the previous NFL. With the Eagles investing heavy resources on their offensive (spending a lot Sunday.
Kansas City and Mohomes, who have often felt inevitable in the last three seasons, finally found their party in Las Águilas. For the entire talk that led to the game on how the chiefs could be the greatest dynasty of all time or how Mohamcs was making a case like the goat, all that, and the search for Kansas City of a three peat, ended due to something relatively simple: the four players that Philadelphia sent in the Quarterback.
