When the lights are the brightest, teams need their stars to step up and shine. The Philadelphia Eagles have relied upon their relentless pass rush all season. However, when the Eagles most desperately needed to disrupt Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs’ offense, the unit was nowhere to be found.

Eagles pass rush rarely got near Mahomes. 0 sacks.

Chiefs DL shut down the Eagles running game. 17 carries for 45 yards for the non-Hurts rushers.

Game was still decided in the trenches but KC had the edge in the two most important factors.

— Field Gulls (@FieldGulls) February 13, 2023

The Eagles led the NFL with 70 sacks during the regular season, which was 15 more than the next highest team as the Chiefs (55) checked in at No. 2. Unfortunately, none of the pressure Philadelphia created resulted in a sack in Sunday’s Super Bowl LVII loss.

Eagles OLB Haason Reddick was the anchor of the Eagles’ dominant defensive line throughout the year. He finished second in the league with 16 sacks during the regular season and led the NFL with 3.5 sacks in the playoffs.

Reddick was asked about what went wrong for the pass rush in the gut-wrenching loss.

“They had a good game plan, a lot of chipping and stuff like that. Trying to, for the most part, getting the ball out fast. Game plan worked, that’s a credit (to) them.”

Haason Reddick on what the Chiefs did against the #Eagles pass rush: pic.twitter.com/NSzcVFrlcC

— Eliot Shorr-Parks (@EliotShorrParks) February 13, 2023

Perhaps the Chiefs’ offensive line played with extra motivation after having to listen to the football world shower the Eagles O-Line with praise over the last couple of weeks. No matter the case, the lack of pressure is what did the Eagles in at the end of the day.

It wasn’t about one play or one call. It was the fact that the Eagles’ biggest advantage turned into a weakness on the NFL’s biggest stage.

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