It all comes down to this. For history. And, more importantly, for the full season competition between Florio and Sims.
After 272 regular season games and 12 postseason games, we’re one game in a straight-up pick contest. I’m 195-89 and he’s 194-90. And we don’t agree who will win the Super Bowl Lix.
If he’s right (and he’s not), it’s a tie. If I’m right (and I’ll be), I win twice.
This is why I’m right. Because when you trust Patrick Mahomes with three peats of the first Super Bowl on the line, you’re not wrong.
I think the Eagles are a better team. In all Super Bowls, the Chiefs won with Mahomes at quarterback, that’s true. All logic refers to the Eagles winning the game. And if this was a regular season game, they would.
However, it only takes 60 minutes to separate Mahome from history. New friend Iñaki Angulo, a Spanish journalist, is now directly covering the Super Bowl for the first time, as I pointed out to me today, as Patriots were trying to complete the 19-0 season with Super Bowl XLII, It’s the most consequential Super Bowl. And while Patriot and Tom Brady couldn’t pull that apart that day, Mahomes faced Spagolo on Sunday thanks to a stunning defensive game plan formulated by former Giants defensive coordinator Steve Spagolo. plug. The Eagles have to compete with what he put together to slow down Philadelphia’s attack.
Not easy. Driving Saquon Barkley back will earn you plenty of yards on the ground. Even if he finishes a straight game streak without allowing Kansas City’s 18-yard rush, Spagnuolo and his players will ensure the Eagles don’t get the points to score more than the Chiefs score. . Whatever that is, Mahomes will find a way to do it.
His only Super Bowl failure occurred when Mahomes had a toe sprain that required surgery, despite his opposition to the Buccaneers and Brady. He was constantly being chased by the Tampa Baypass rush, but he still gave everything he had to try and win his team.
This time, Mahomes is healthy. This time, the man who made history in his first seven years as a starter has the opportunity to create a history that no one has ever made before.
Not easy. The chief could be behind. They may last ten times in the second half, as they are each of Mahomes’ Super Bowl wins. Unless the Eagles can blow the chiefs off the field, Mahomes has the opportunity to play the biggest play possible, in the biggest location possible.
Mahomes remains tormented by losses in Super Bowl LV. He is confident that when his team needs play, he will make it. And when Kansas City’s defense needs to play, someone like defensive tackle Chris Jones step up.
This is very underestimated by a very realistic psychological element. At some point, it would feel like Deja Vu for the Eagles player who wasted a 10-point lead on the chief. The Chief believes it’s time to take the game, and the Eagles will feel that.
In my opinion, there are too many to overcome. We’ve seen what the Chief can do. They aren’t as strong as they have last few years, but they have the confidence that comes from doing it over and over again. They have lost only one game they were trying to win since Christmas Day 2023. And it was a Mahomesian effort from Bills quarterback Josh Allen.
That day in Buffalo, I wasn’t riding it for the season. This time it all comes down to it. season. Trophy. To raise the chief over all other dynasties of football, by doing things that he has never done before.
Sims believes the talent gap is too big. The best offensive line in football, the best running in football, the franchise quarterback in Jalen, the franchise quarterback in Hart, the best (probably) receiver tandem, the best defensive line in football, the Eagles build the lead, I’ll keep it.
I understand why he thinks that way. I went back and forth between it myself. On Wednesday morning, I decided to stop thinking and start trusting my eyes, memories, and intestines.
After a Super Bowl of 59, it was time for the team to win three times in a row. For the first time, two consecutive wins have returned to the Super Bowl once again. They have the man known as the greatest quarterback of all time sooner or later (and likely later). They have the best coaches of all time, sooner or later (and likely later). Within their grasp, that’s fine. They proved to everyone that in those moments they grab it.
Many great quarterbacks and coaches feel the stab wounds that they have to deal with Mahomes and Andy Reed. And I believe it will continue. The Eagles beat Chris, 38-28. There are Chiefs, 27-24.
Even if I’m wrong (and I won’t), I can’t stop trusting Mahome and Reed now. There are too many lines. And the greater the stakes, the more likely you are to fill in the talent gap and find a way to win in the only statistical category that has been important to date.
