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Super Bowl 57: Kansas City and Philadelphia Eagles come to win | Israel today

2023-02-12T09:03:46.164Z


Exactly a decade ago, both teams went through a difficult season and had to start a new way • Tonight they meet in the Super Bowl for a battle that will close a circle • With two champions from recent years, a coach who meets the legendary ex, super quarterbacks, and the constant hype around the exciting class, the potential for a celebration in Arizona is especially great


In 2012, exactly ten seasons ago, Kansas City finished with a miserable 14:2 record, the fifth negative season in six years for a club accustomed to the bottom of the league.

For the Philadelphia Eagles, that season exactly a decade ago marked the end of an era.

Yes, she also finished with a weak balance - 12:4 - but for her it was a relatively unusual event.

In 14 years under coach Andy Reid, this was only the third time she finished a season with a negative balance.

But after 8:8 the year before, a second consecutive miss of the playoffs was enough for the Eagles and Reid to part ways.

And as happens in romantic comedies, it was the kind of breakup that was good for both parties.

Basically, in this case, with three sides - Philly, Reed, and Kansas.

Here's a summary of the decade that has passed since then: Philly appointed Chip Kelly, returned to the playoffs immediately, moved on from him to Doug Pederson, who in 2017 brought the first Super Bowl win in the club's history - a status he returned to this year, in Nick Siriani's second season on the lines.

Balance sheet in a decade?

69:92, seven seasons with a positive balance, and now another qualification as mentioned for the biggest game of all.

Does that sound successful to you?

Well, it's not even as good as what Reed and Kansas have been going through in that time.

Already in his first season there, the Chips improved by 550% to a 5:11 record and a playoff appearance.

In the following season, they went back slightly to a balance of 7:9, but since then?

Ballistic missile - 8 seasons of at least 10 wins, every year reaches the playoffs, in 2019 wins the Super Bowl (for the first time since 1969), and this season marks the third Super Bowl appearance in 4 years.

Syrian.

Favorite Philadelphia, photo: AP

So a decade has passed, and the best way to close the circle of such a romantic triangle is in a sequel.

And better than that it was impossible to plan - so tonight (between Sunday and Monday) Reed's Kansas will meet his legendary ex, Philadelphia, in the Super Bowl.

Quick, call Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper!

Philly is a slight favorite

So what can we expect?

First of all - for an attractive finale.

Although, with the overly exaggerated ceremonies, the too long breaks, and all the carnage around, the Super Bowl is an event that is difficult to survive its broadcast from beginning to end, especially if you are sitting alone in a dark living room in the wee hours of the morning.

But Kansas City, with legendary quarterback-in-the-making Patrick Mahomes, is the best offense in the league.

On the other hand, Philadelphia with Jaylen Hurts, a terrifying dual-threat quarterback, has the third best offense in the league.

And if that alone doesn't guarantee points - then none of them are some kind of defensive monster, to say the least.

The Chiefs have the 16th defense in Tiva this season, with an average score of 22:29.

Philly's defense was the 8th best in the league this year, with an average score of 20:28.

Andy Reid.

Meets the mythical ex, photo: AP

The chance that all this will converge into a defensive and too tough game is very low.

But still, we mustn't forget that the Super Bowl is such a unique game that it's really hard to estimate in advance what we'll see in it.

It's both the media and cultural frenzy and the fact that it comes two weeks after the teams won their divisional finals.

The Super Bowl is a bubble - and many times it really flies and explodes in ways that are hard to imagine in advance.

But even this bubble has internal laws that can be drawn in retrospect.

And trying to look back to estimate who will win, reveals that even in the Super Bowl - the cliché that "offense wins games but defense wins championships" is usually true.

In the last 30 Super Bowls, the loser of the Super Bowl had a better offensive rating - 4.9 vs. 6.6.

But the winner had a defensive rating of 6.8 compared to 9.6 for the loser.

The stadium in Arizona that will host the Super Bowl, photo: AP.

Islands

This was enough for a team that is only offensively superior - to win only 7 out of 17 (41%), while on the other hand a team that is only defensively superior won 11 out of 18 (61%).

These are not very encouraging data specifically for Kansas, and really - Philadelphia is the favorite (even if very, very slightly).

Whatever happens tonight, a decade since these two teams sought a better future and found themselves embarking on a new path, intertwined with each other, one thing is very likely to be assumed - with two super coordinators aged only 27 and 24, even in the coming years the destinies of The Chiefs and the Eagles will go head-to-head, with the Vince Lombardi Trophy in the middle.

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Source: israelhayom

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