Column: Defense wins championships, take the Eagles
More people will watch Sunday’s Super Bowl XVII than the Trumpian count of 5 million-and-counting who attended Padres FanFest.
This thing looks pretty even, Steven/Stephen. The Eagles are 1½-point favorites, which basically means pick-em — and not a thing, which is why prop bets are so popular. They are won by defense. And the way I see this game going, the Eagles by far have the better defense, and the offenses — despite the Chiefs having MVP quarterback/wizard Patrick Mahomes — while different, are equally effective.
Mahomes is the fourth MVP to face The League’s No. 1 pass defense in the Super Bowl — Cam Newton, Peyton Manning and Rich Gannon being the others — and they all lost. Patrick’s offensive line couldn’t protect him vs. The Bucs in Super Bowl LV, K.C. got hammered, and Mahomes, as Bobby Ross would say, had “some evade in him” then.
The Chiefs very easily might win despite Mahomes’ injury, but most of his wonderful innovation is conducted outside the pocket. His lone chance is the Eagles doing what so many K.C. opponents somehow can’t do — get after him enough and fail to cover Travis Kelce, The Invisible Tight End.
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