Eagles' Darius Slay gives the Chiefs all the praise after Super Bowl
The Kansas City Chiefs played a flawless second half. Sure, everyone will say they were bailed out by a bad call, but whatever. It was a hold, and if it was the Chiefs that held and it was called, no one would have anything to say. But, that is part of playing the villain, something […]
The Kansas City Chiefs played a flawless second half. Sure, everyone will say they were bailed out by a bad call, but whatever. It was a hold, and if it was the Chiefs that held and it was called, no one would have anything to say. But, that is part of playing the villain, something the Chiefs have embraced.
But, for once the Chiefs received the credit they deserved, and this time it was by an Eagles player. The Eagles have been nothing but classy, at least from what I have seen, and Slay only further displayed that as he explained what happened on the two wide-open touchdown plays.
"The first half I felt like a complete team," Slay said on his show. "We played a good game, not a great one because we still left plays out there, but a good game. Come the second half, they came out there and answered with a whole different type of game plan. They came out just doing what they do best as we were scheming for the crossers, the deep sevens, they weren't doing it really anymore. They're more like running the ball in a lot of mixed directions, getting back to their traditional ball.
"That's why Andy Reid is one of the greatest coaches of all time because he understood that early, you could tell they watch film heavily. We played a lot of men in the red zone, so we're trying to rotate the coverage to beat him to the flat guys were hitting us with the return route, getting us out leverage, and beating us back across the ball. They did it twice and that's just us on the back end, got to be way more detail, so you got to tip your hat off to Andy Reid and the coaching staff man, that's just brilliant ball."
Slay kept it real. The Eagles didn't lose on a bad call, they lost because the Chiefs did whatever they wanted to do in the second half. They were nearly perfect.
Did the referees make the Eagles just completely forget to cover Kadarius Toney or Skyy Moore on what was the same exact touchdown play, just flipped? Did the refs make the Eagles' special teams unit play badly when Toney returned one of the longest punts ever in a Super Bowl?
Shout out to Slay for keeping it real. They have a very good defense, but Reid just had a better game plan.
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