ESPN ranked the 2024 Eagles as just the 40th-best Super Bowl champion ever, then will look you straight in the eye and tell you Jalen Hurts is playing on a super team

Following Super Bowl 60, ESPN dropped their rankings of all Super Bowl champions, and believe it or not, the 2024 Eagles came in at No. 40.

ESPN on why the 2024 Eagles ranks 40th:

The 2024 Eagles started slow with a 2-2 record before their bye week followed by a slim 20-16 win over Cleveland. Then the defense turned things on. Including the playoffs, the Eagles won 16 of their final 17 games. Philadelphia ranked only 13th in offensive DVOA during the regular season, in part because of struggles when quarterback Jalen Hurts (concussion) was injured in Weeks 16-18, but it had the league’s best defense. The Eagles’ defensive DVOA from Week 6 onward ranks as one of the 10 best of any team since 1978.

The Eagles had strong wins in the first two postseason games but really crushed the Commanders 55-23 in the NFC Championship Game. Then they blew out the Chiefs 40-22, preventing a Kansas City three-peat with a defensive performance that dominated quarterback Patrick Mahomes until the game was well out of hand in the fourth quarter.

I know ESPN just ranks this shit by throwing darts at a dart board, but can we, for once, just release a serious ranking’s list? They also put the 2025 Seahawks at No. 3, just for context. That alone makes the list unserious and not worthy of anyone’s time.

I don’t want to shit on Seattle all that much, they deserved to win this year. Let’s just call a spade a spade — they aren’t the third-best team in NFL history. I’m sorry, that’s just not true.

On top of that, this whole trend of disrespecting one of the most winningest teams of the 2000’s spits in the face of another narrative ESPN likes to push, that Jalen Hurts was carried to his Super Bowl win. How was he carried if his team doesn’t even rank in the top-half of Super Bowl champions? We all know it’s just bullshit. I just can’t help myself from writing about it, even when I’m all the way out in Bali.