Reminder: NFL Ruined Eagles chances of slowing down the Chiefs Dynasty in last year’s Super Bowl
The Kansas City Chiefs just upset the Baltimore Ravens on the road 17-10 in the AFC Championship to advance to yet another Super Bowl.
Here I am wondering what could have happened in last year’s Super Bowl where the Chiefs beat the Philadelphia Eagles 38-35.
It was third-and-eight, with less than two minutes left in the game, Mahomes got rid of the ball in an apparent overthrow intended for JuJu Smith-Schuster in the endzone, and what seemed like the Eagles got a crucial stop. Mahomes then pointed, and you saw a yellow flag indicating the game’s end. All the Chiefs needed to do was run out the clock and kick the game-winning field goal.
Fox Sports analyst Greg Olsen with the perfect summary of that play and making that call in such a crucial part of the game. But, he wasn’t the only one who took issue with it.
It’s funny, for a league that prides itself so much on being peak entertainment, a call like that ruins the game. We missed seeing what Jalen Hurts and the Eagles offense could have done down three points with under two minutes left in the game. Hurts was the only one to outplay Mahomes in these big spots, unlike all the other quarterbacks, including Lamar Jackson. I don’t want to hear Josh Allen because he had his chance again this year and came up short.
I’m not here to say the NFL is rigged or anything. But you’d be kidding yourselves if you didn’t at least acknowledge the treatment of once Tom Brady and the Patriots and now Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs. Another example is the slippery field conditions in the Super Bowl last year. Heading into that matchup the Eagles led the NFL in sacks at an historic rate, and couldn’t even record one on the biggest of stages. Almost as if the NFL wanted a clean pocket for the new poster boy to play in right?
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I’m not even a Chiefs hater. The Mahomes-Reid dynamic is fantastic, and I always love it when there is a truly dominant player/team in sports, but eventually, it becomes too much. There were countless missed penalties in Kansas City’s favor yesterday that may have changed the outcome of the game, but the better team won yesterday, so I can’t take anything away.
Somehow, someway, just after Brady retires, we are in the middle of the new “GOAT” on the verge of winning his third Super Bowl. Deservingly so, Mahomes and the Chiefs are true juggernauts, and I don’t mean to take anything away from them: just one thing: the Super Bowl 57 trophy that belongs to the Philadelphia Eagles.
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Perhaps even more so was the lousy turf the teams played on. Philly’s dominance in the sack department was neutralized because of that mushy playing field and it really showed in their defense. There is no question that the NFL wants Mahomes to be the next Tom Brady. That last penalty should have never been called because the pass was uncatchable.