Chiefs' Super Bowl LVII win forces Nick Sirianni, Eagles players to make painful admissions on Super Bowl LIX opening night
As the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles took the stage for Super Bowl LIX opening night, their last meeting in Super Bowl LVII was on the mind. After a hard-fought and high-scoring affair in Glendale, Arizona, the Chiefs pulled off a game-winning, 27-yard Harrison Butker field goal to ice the game. Both teams have some […]
As the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles took the stage for Super Bowl LIX opening night, their last meeting in Super Bowl LVII was on the mind.
After a hard-fought and high-scoring affair in Glendale, Arizona, the Chiefs pulled off a game-winning, 27-yard Harrison Butker field goal to ice the game. Both teams have some key similarities and differences heading into the rematch, but what did the losing team learn from their first matchup? Eagles RT Lane Johnson suggested that the team was not as focused as they could have been.
"You go back and look at it," Johnson said. "There were some plays that we definitely like to have back, you know. But I credit Kansas City for, you know, what they've established and how they've been here consistently for the past five out of six years. So, you know, I think this year maybe we can be more focused, possibly as a group."
Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni essentially verified Johnson's comments with his own, explaining that Philadelphia has changed how it operates during Super Bowl week. The goal is to correct some of the issues, distractions, and lapses in focus that occurred the first time these two teams met.
"As you go through any game in the NFL that you play, any game, really, that I've been coaching, as you play, you kind of think about the things that you did well, then you think about the things that you didn't do well, and how you can improve on those things," Sirianni explained. "And so that was something that we went through when we got back from Phoenix. 'Hey, here's what we did well, here's what we didn't do well,' and you try to get better from those things. And I won't get into the things that were changed through the daily organization of a Super Bowl week, but there's some things that we're doing a little bit different, you know, to try to get better from from our last experience."
Different doesn't always mean better, but the Eagles certainly hope that will happen in this rematch. It'll be up to Kansas City to prove the opposite.
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