ESPN | Sunday, February 9, 2025 
Eagles ride dominant defense to Super Bowl LIX win over Chiefs

NEW ORLEANS — Defense, the old coaches used to tell us, wins championships. And while the scoring-happy modern NFL sometimes makes that old saw sound silly, the Super Bowl LIX champion Philadelphia Eagles would like a word. Sunday night in a city that’s hosted more Super Bowls than any other, the Kansas City Chiefs’ quest for Super Bowl history never even got off the ground. Philadelphia’s swarming defense held Patrick Mahomes and the two-time defending champions to just 23 yards in the first half, led 24-0 at halftime and rolled to a 40-22 victory that kept the Chiefs from becoming the first team to win three straight Super Bowl titles and instead delivered the second in Eagles history. Quarterback Jalen Hurts, whose phone screen saver for the past two years has been a photo of him walking off the Super Bowl LVII field in Arizona surrounded by yellow and red confetti after losing to the Chiefs, was absolutely brilliant, throwing for 221 yards, rushing for 72 and accounting for three touchdowns. He threw just five incompletions with one interception for a QB rating of 119.7. The defense forced three turnovers and held Mahomes and the Kansas City offense to 275 yards. It was an all-night party at the tail end of a weeklong party for Eagles fans in the Big Easy. And in the end, it was the oft-maligned Hurts and Eagles coach Nick Sirianni holding up the Lombardi Trophy…Read More