Eagles blow out Chiefs in Super Bowl 59
The Philadelphia Eagles denied the Kansas City Chiefs a historic third straight Super Bowl victory and did so in emphatic fashion.
Jalen Hurts threw two touchdown passes and ran for another, and Philadelphia's defence flummoxed Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs' cast of stars for three quarters as the Eagles rolled to a 40-22 win in Super Bowl 59 on Sunday in New Orleans.
The Eagles captured their second Lombardi Trophy in franchise history and ended the Chiefs' quest to become the first team to win three consecutive Super Bowls, a run that began with a 38-35 triumph over Philadelphia two years ago in Super Bowl LVII.
Hurts was named the game's Most Valuable Player after completing 17 of 22 passes for 221 yards with one interception and adding a team-high 72 rushing yards. The dual-threat quarterback had plenty of support from the other side of the ball, however, as Philadelphia's defence forced Mahomes into three turnovers and sacked the three-time Super Bowl champ six times.
Mahomes did throw three touchdown passes, though all came in the final 16 minutes after the Eagles had built an insurmountable 34-0 lead. Rookie Xavier Worthy was on the receiving end of two of those touchdowns while accumulating 157 yards on eight catches.
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Mahomes entered the game on a streak of 288 consecutive pass attempts without an interception, but was picked off twice and lost a fumble in his first post-season defeat since the 2021 AFC Championship. Eagles cornerback Cooper DeJean, celebrating his 22nd birthday, had one of those interceptions and returned it 38 yards for a touchdown.
A.J. Brown and Devonta Smith had touchdown catches for Philadelphia, while NFL Offensive Player of the Year Saquon Barkley rushed for 57 yards to give him 2,504 for the season - the most by any player in a combined regular season and post-season in NFL history.
The Chiefs' first play from scrimmage resulted in an 11-yard pass from Mahomes to JuJu Smith-Schuster. They did not record another first down for the remainder of the first half, however, as the Eagles blitzed out to a 24-0 lead behind their suffocating defence and Hurts' solid play under center.
Philadelphia took a 7-0 advantage by marching 69 yards in seven plays on a drive capped by Hurts' 1-yard sneak into the end zone with 6:15 left in the first quarter. The score was set up by Hurts' 27-yard pass to Jahan Dotson to the 1-yard line, which came two plays after an unnecessary roughness penalty on Kansas City cornerback Trent McDuffie on third down extended the series.
After Hurts' 22-yard pass to Brown led to Jake Elliott's 48-yard field goal midway through the second quarter, Mahomes was intercepted on his next two pass attempts as Philadelphia further extended the margin.
The first pick came courtesy of DeJean, who stepped in front of Chiefs receiver DeAndre Hopkins to snare Mahomes' ill-advised pass across the middle. The rookie then found daylight along the right sideline before making his way across the goal line to give the Eagles a 17-0 advantage with 7:03 remaining in the second quarter.
Kansas City's next possession ended in another three-and-out, and the subsequent one lasted one play as Eagles linebacker Zach Baun made a diving interception of Mahomes' pass at the Chiefs' 14-yard line.
Two plays later, Hurts found Brown for a 12-yard touchdown to put Philadelphia up 24-0 with 1:35 left before half-time.
The second half started with much of the same for the Kansas City offence, which stalled near midfield and punted before the Eagles moved 69 yards in 12 plays to put Elliott in range for a successful 29-yard field goal.
Philadelphia then stopped the Chiefs on downs on the following possession, and Smith got behind the Kansas City secondary on the very next play to haul in Hurts' perfectly thrown deep ball for a 46-yard touchdown that increased the lead to 34-0 with 2:40 to go in the third quarter.
The Chiefs finally got on the board on Worthy's 24-yard touchdown catch in the final minute of the third quarter, though they failed on the ensuing 2-point conversion try. Worthy began the drive with a 50-yard grab of Mahomes' downfield pass, by far Kansas City's longest play to that point.
Philadelphia answered with Elliott's third field goal, a 48-yard kick early in the fourth quarter, then went up 40-6 shortly thereafter when Elliott knocked home a 50-yard try set up by Mahomes' fumble in Chiefs' territory on a sack caused by Milton Williams.
Kansas City did score a pair of touchdowns in the final three minutes - a 7-yard catch from Hopkins and Mahomes' 50-yard deep strike to Worthy - to make the final score more respectable. The Chiefs successfully converted 2-point attempts after both scores.