Eagles' Super Bowl win over Chiefs gets even better after Milton Williams' postgame comments

For the entrity of the Super Bowl, the Philadelphia Eagles pressured Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes without ever blitzing.  What makes that so intriguing is it marks only the fourth time in NFL history a defense did not blitz during a game.  How did that happen, you ask? Eagles defensive tackle Milton Williams had the […]

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Philadelphia Eagles defensive tackle Milton Williams (93) celebrates on the podium after defeating the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX at Ceasars Superdome.
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For the entrity of the Super Bowl, the Philadelphia Eagles pressured Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes without ever blitzing. 

What makes that so intriguing is it marks only the fourth time in NFL history a defense did not blitz during a game. 

How did that happen, you ask?

Eagles defensive tackle Milton Williams had the answer following the Eagles' 40-22 win. 

"There was nothing they could do," Williams said. "We knew they couldn’t block us up front.” “We’ve got dawgs everywhere.”

The Eagles' defensive line racked up six sacks on Mahomes, with three of them coming in the first half of the game.  

Philly's defense also picked Mahomes off twice, including one returned for a touchdown by cornerback Cooper DeJeans. 

Mahomes admitted after the game that the Eagles' momentum was so far ahead that the Chiefs just could never catch up and properly attack. 

"I think in order to make a team blitz, you have to be able to beat what they're showing," said Mahomes. "And that's what we didn't do, especially in the first half, and we made some good adjustments at halftime and came out better. But it was almost too late, the momentum had kind of flipped in their favor. And how they play with Saquon [Barkley] and how they can run the football and control the clock with Jalen [Hurts] making big third down conversions, it kind of put our defense in a really bad spot.

"And so when you're in these big games, you have to play better from the beginning, and that's tough at all to continue to get better at and force defenses to blitz by attacking their zone covers the right way."

Many chalked up Super Bowl LIX as Mahomes' worst performance of his NFL career after the Eagles' six sacks on on the three-time MVP marked the most he's taken during any game in his seven years as Kansas City's starting QB. 

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