Super Bowl LIX had the two best teams in the National Football League, but the game didn't live up to the hype. The Philadelphia Eagles got up quickly on the Kansas City Chiefs by scoring the first 34 points in a 40-22 blowout victory.

From the start, the Eagles took it to the Chiefs on both sides of the football. They struggled to run the ball with Saquon Barkley, but the play-action passing game and Jalen Hurts running the football were the biggest reasons why the offense was able to move down the field.

The defense was the biggest catalyst of the game and it sent a major signal to the rest of the National Football League

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Eagles dominance could derail Vikings free agency plans

It's no secret that Eagles defensive coordinator Vic Fangio has been a renaissance for the unit as a whole. He was a major factor in the 2022 team getting to the Super Bowl and was a bigger factor in their win than any other.

It wasn't just his defense performing, but how dominant the pass rush was. They got six sacks, forced two interceptions, and a strip sack that essentially sealed the game in the fourth quarter. What was most impressive about how successful the pass rush was is Fangio didn't call a single blitz on 42 dropbacks the entire game.

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This isn't the first time that the Chiefs got dominated in the trenches during a Super Bowl. Four years ago, the Chiefs lost to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 31-9 and quarterback Patrick Mahomes couldn't overcome what happened in front of him.

The common link in both games? The offensive line played very poorly.

It was understandable against the Buccaneers. Four of their starting five offensive linemen were out with injuries.The Buccaneers front four dominated the Chiefs in winning their second Super Bowl. The following offseason, the Chiefs did everything they could to fix the offensive line. They signed Joe Thuney for market setting money at the time, along with drafting Creed Humphrey and Trey Smith. Those three essentially fixed the offensive line going into the 2021 season, helping them win two Super Bowls.

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Why does this impact the Vikings? The last time the offensive line got beat up this much the Chiefs did everything in their power to fix the offensive line. While their biggest issue is at left tackle, keeping the integrity of the offensive line with Smith at right guard.

This could derail the Minnesota Vikings' free agency plans, as they were set to attack free agency looking for Trey Smith. The Star Tribune's Ben Goessling said just as much last week.

“I think they'll be pretty aggressive for players like that. I think they are going to be aggressive at guard. He's probably at the top of the guard market, which will be expensive. But I think they are going to make a big priority of going after a guard. And I think they would have a lot of interest in getting a guy like [Trey Smith] in here. So I would expect they'd be involved if he makes it to the market, which he might, because the Chiefs have other guys to sign.”

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Smith is obviously the crown jewel of free agency on the offensive line and a franchise tag isn't likely. The offensive line is grouped together, so franchise tagging him would cost a projected $25,156,000. That would be the highest guard contract by over $4 million, as Landon Dickerson of the Eagles has the highest average annual value at $21 million.

With that element in play, the Chiefs would either need to give Smith a new contract before the start of free agency or try and outbid other teams on the open market. Because of how the Chiefs handled their last Super Bowl loss, it could prevent the Vikings from even getting to make an offer.

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