Philadelphia Eagles demolish the Kansas City Chiefs to win their second Super Bowl
Updated Feb. 10, 2025
Fueled by a harassing defense, Philadelphia denied a Kansas City coronation in Super Bowl 59, dethroning the Chiefs in a rout that delivered the Eagles their second championship in seven seasons by a score of 40-22.
Quarterback Jalen Hurts earned MVP honors after throwing for two touchdowns and running for one more.
Kansas City had won three Super Bowl titles in the last five years, including the last two, and it was trying to become the first team in the NFL's Super Bowl era to win back-to-back-to-back titles. Led by quarterback Patrick Mahomes, whose résumé sparked debates about whether he or Tom Brady was the best quarterback in NFL history, the Chiefs had won 17 consecutive one-score games and appeared infallible in the clutch.
Philadelphia, however, never allowed this Super Bowl — a rematch from two years earlier — to ever get close, muting Mahomes' effectiveness from the opening drive.
In front of a sold-out Superdome crowd in New Orleans, the Eagles’ top-rated defense used its unrelenting pass rush to intercept Mahomes twice before halftime — including an interception birthday boy Cooper DeJean returned for a touchdown — and hold Kansas City scoreless until the final minute of the third quarter. By then, Philadelphia already led 34-0, the biggest deficit Mahomes had ever faced in his decorated career.
Kansas City had overcome 10-point deficits to win each of its previous three championships under Mahomes and coach Andy Reid, but no team had ever overcome this big a hole to win a Super Bowl before.
Mahomes was sacked a season-high six times and was never allowed enough time to engineer the kind of play-extending magic that had become his signature as he pushed Kansas City to an unprecedented fifth Super Bowl in six seasons. Mahomes had just 33 yards at halftime but finished with 257 yards and three touchdowns.