Super Bowl LIX Thread

[JameisBrownston]

This is one of the all-time Super Bowl blowouts. This team has been exposed and I could see them collapsing to barely over .500 next year. Philly absolutely deserves this, they dominated this year.

[Brian wolf]

This Feffin game is over! Hurts or Sweat for MVP? I go with Sweat but Hurts erases the ugliness of their collapse in 2023. A sweet revenge game ...

[GameBeforeTheMoney]

Kind of a bit like the 83 Raiders win....Eagle had a big int at the end of the 1st half that just about wrapped it up. Underdog blowing out defending champs.

Philly was almost perfect in this game - at least up until when I'm typing this with about 9 mins left. About as flawless as a team could be in a SB.

Who might be MVP? I'm guessing they'll give it to Hurts as the quarterback, but that D really was the difference. Would like to see a defensive player win it.

[JameisBrownston]

We've witnessed the fall of a dynasty tonight. You have to wonder if Reid retires after next year at this point, with the wheels coming off and the team unlikely to come close to another SB next year. The Super Bowl loser hangover goes easy on no one, especially not a team as overextended as this one was to make it this far. Mahomes is already a diminishing asset at 30, much like Marino's career arc. The O line was horribly exposed today and will have many holes to patch up in the offseason.

[Brian wolf]

The Eagles had a great gameplan, while the Chiefs never even bothered with the running game. Had the Chiefs went deep to Worthy and Brown early, maybe they keep the game closer but the Eagles pass rush stayed consistent. Fangio did a great job with this defense.

Great year for KC but maybe another bye week affected their performance after a tough game with Buffalo. I am just glad that a new team could win with Hurts being only the fourth QB to win with his original team since Wilson in early 2014. CSKreager can now celebrate ... haha

To be honest, I am still disappointed the Lions lost to Washington. I felt they could have beaten both of these teams.

[Brian wolf]

It wouldnt have determined the outcome but the Chiefs had penalties at the worst times. They got lucky on the OPI that didnt result in a huge play by Brown but the personal foul penalty on Bolton was huge. There was also a huge penalty on the hit on Goedert that helped the Eagles but wasnt much contact. These helped Eagle drives.

[74_75_78_79_]

Yes, though not a KC-fan nor really a hater either (was glad to finally see them win it again after the 50-year wait five years ago, but was glad to see the BIrds win last night), I still think of this current run as a Dynasty even if its "merely" one considering a second blowout SB-defeat. Sometimes you can see it as a 'plus' with the extra conference championship despite the blowout, and sometimes as not - no rhyme or reason.

You can ask how it would have turned out if it was Buffalo or Baltimore playing the Birds yesterday instead. First off, I think Eagles beat either of them anyway. Second, despite last night's performance, KC clearly was the best in the AFC this year. They, yet again, beat Buffalo when it mattered most, and sure-enough if the Ravens couldn't top Buffalo, then sure-enough the Chiefs would have found a way to beat them in the AFCCG while Balt would have found a way to lose as the case last year, as the case in the opener.

The top-two NFL teams of 2024 played last night. Yes, Detroit, but I respectfully don't think they beat either the Eagles or Chiefs if only because of their injuries, especially on defense. Perhaps a fully healthy Lions team tops KC, but against Philly - even at home - I think I'd give the Eagles the slight edge. I could be wrong though, and I'd really (as long as not at Steelers' expense) like to see the Lions get to - and WIN - a Super Bowl. Let's see how they replenish themselves next season along with the new coordinators being on the same page under Dantallica which I'm very sure they will.

Yes, an extra conference championship this year. This placed Andy Reid even further ahead of Landry/Shula. But the blowout fashion of it all...I still got Joe Gibbs and his three Rings with zero HOF QBs ahead of him.

Patrick? Yes, another CC as well which he also is very responsible for, but the blowout prevents he from getting ahead of Bart Starr and also Terry Bradshaw. Starr lost one, but just Barely (with a capital 'B') and he won all remaining five!

All JMHO, end of day.

As for this very thread, I guess it should not have been started in the first place considering that Ness already started his 'Super Bowl 59 talk' one, lol. Maybe merge both of these together.


In either event, we all now enter, once again, into the long...Offseason Zone!!

[Brian wolf]

Haha ... the thread was started to cover the game itself, since I was hoping people would comment during and after the game. I just watched the replay and anyone who thinks Mahomes has lost arm strength needs to watch his final TD pass, which went 68 yards in the air from his 40 yrd line to the back of the endzone. Fans miss him going deep. I hope Hopkins comes back for them next year. He will be more a factor with Worthy and Kelce. Rice could be incarcerated.

I am still partial to the 1960 Eagles championship team which had so many great players including Van Brocklin, Bednarik, McDonald, Retzlaff, T Brown, Walston and Burroughs, coached by Buck Shaw, who should also be in the HOF.

I disagree 74_75_78_79_ ... I feel the Lions, Bills or Ravens could have beaten the Eagles but with two weeks, Fangio would have come up with a defensive gameplan like last night. It would have been interesting to see those matchups instead of a flat Chiefs performance.

[JameisBrownston]

If you're an active NFL player, you pretty much have to kill someone to go to jail. Rice will get like 6 games.

[74_75_78_79_]

Haha ... the thread was started to cover the game itself, since I was hoping people would comment during and after the game. I just watched the replay and anyone who thinks Mahomes has lost arm strength needs to watch his final TD pass, which went 68 yards in the air from his 40 yrd line to the back of the endzone. Fans miss him going deep. I hope Hopkins comes back for them next year. He will be more a factor with Worthy and Kelce. Rice could be incarcerated.

I am still partial to the 1960 Eagles championship team which had so many great players including Van Brocklin, Bednarik, McDonald, Retzlaff, T Brown, Walston and Burroughs, coached by Buck Shaw, who should also be in the HOF.

I disagree 74_75_78_79_ ... I feel the Lions, Bills or Ravens could have beaten the Eagles but with two weeks, Fangio would have come up with a defensive gameplan like last night. It would have been interesting to see those matchups instead of a flat Chiefs performance.

Just like the logic that Cleveland would have given Giants/Redskins "better" games in the '80s (and I did root for them over Denver despite being a Steeler-fan), the fact is that they couldn't top Denver so, sadly, end of discussion (same with the '94 AFCCG). Bills & Ravens may keep it real close but, deer-in-headlights, can't punch-it-in vs KC when it matters most in the 4th thus the Chiefs still rule the AFC until. "Maybe next year", from a guy who predicted, going into '05, that Peyton would "never" win a Super Bowl. I was right for just one full-season after that (and, yes, I'm glad I was wrong). We'll simply have to see.

Yes, the 1960 Philadelphia Eagles. They had the best record in football at 10-2. I want to give even more stock in them, but it seemed that they were a bit beneath their actual record whilst benefiting from the two-time-defending-World Champ, Colts, weird collapse. No, not at all a...(again, not at all a)..."paper-tiger" (understatement) thus clearly no "weak" World Champ at all, but sadly IMHO not Historic,

And, across the way, just an above-average conference. The Packers weren't "ready" yet. But someone had to represent! And the Pack...were pushed onto the Big Stage already at 8-4 with the next two beneath them tied at 7-5 (2nd-place Browns in the other conference finished at 8-3-1). Yet 'babe in woods' Packers go into Philly against Bednarik's Eagles and almost win anyway. I'm wondering if 1960 should be considered Vince's best HC-ing performance!

But, yes, Buck Shaw...I'm so glad that Vermeil is fairly in the HOF, but then so should have Buck Shaw even before him for I think they're both, basically, "equal". Same with Buddy Parker waiting at least as long as Jimmy Johnson had to before he getting in there well before he as well as STILL not having to wait yet!

PS - had Packers actually gotten by in '60, would they have been "fat & happy" for a season or two? Or would it have, simply, been SIX World Championships? Like Jordan's Bulls? Three-peat, two year break, then another three-peat. Only no Bart Starr playing baseball, just Paul's suspension and then simply readjusting the following year.