The 2024-25 NFL season is officially in the books, and the Philadelphia Eagles are your Super Bowl Champions.
Philly dominated the whole game, and the final score was not indicative of how lopsided this contest was. After all, KC didn’t get on the board until after they had fallen behind 34-0.
With the big game now in our rearview mirror, let’s take a look at some of the most important takeaways from Super Bowl LIX.
The Eagles were the best team in the NFL this year
Several franchises had a case to be the best team in the NFL. The Detroit Lions had their best season in franchise history with a 15-3 record, but they underperformed in the playoffs and lost to the Washington Commanders despite having home-field advantage. The Kansas City Chiefs made it back to their third consecutive Super Bowl, but people will only remember the beatdown they suffered in the big game. The Buffalo Bills made it to the AFC Championship, and quarterback Josh Allen won MVP, but losing to the Chiefs in the postseason will haunt Bills Mafia for years.
Truly, the best team in the National Football League this year was the Super Bowl Champion Philadelphia Eagles. They were one of the four best squads in the league during the regular season, and they were easily the best team in the playoffs. Therefore, Philly should be viewed as the undisputed best team in the NFL this season.
Sometimes the best team doesn’t win the Super Bowl, but that was not the case here. With an 18-3 record, the Eagles had the most wins of any team in the league this season. Philly also had a top-ten offense (seventh in points per game) and a top-ten defense (second in points per game allowed). Those units were even better in the playoffs (first in scoring offense, third in scoring defense).
The Eagles are the best team in the NFL, and they should be looked at as favorites to win Super Bowl LX next year in Santa Clara, California.
This season was a failure for the Chiefs
Normally, a 17-2 record and an appearance in the Super Bowl would be considered a successful season for 31 other NFL teams. But that’s true for the Kansas City Chiefs.
After back-to-back Super Bowl wins, just making it to the big game is no longer good enough. Players, coaches, and fans were expecting KC to be the first-ever team to win three straight Lombardi Trophies. However, that dream is now dead, and there’s a possibility we may never see the Chiefs have a run like this again.
Don’t get me wrong, I am sure that KC and Patrick Mahomes will make it back to the Super Bowl. I just no longer think that they will ever string together three consecutive Super Bowl wins. Hell, I don’t know if I’ll ever see it in my lifetime.
I am not discrediting the Chiefs’ dynasty. They have still won three Super Bowls over the last six years, one of the best runs we have ever seen in the National Football League. With that in mind though, the only way this season was going to be viewed as a success was if KC became the first team to win three straight Lombardi Trophies. By falling short of those expectations, I believe this season was a failure for the Chiefs.
Kansas City had a good squad this year, but they never looked great. Despite their record, the Chiefs were only good – not great – defensively (fourth in scoring) and just a middle-of-the-road team offensively (15th in scoring). If they had put up gaudy numbers and looked like the best offense or defense in the NFL all season, then this loss would be a little bit more palatable. But considering this was an unsatisfying year statistically, and they didn’t three-peat, I think this is a failed season for KC.
Put some respect on Jalen Hurts’ name
It’s time that we start talking about Jalen Hurts the way we talk about Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen, Joe Burrow, and Lamar Jackson. If the measuring stick for quarterbacks in the NFL is winning, then Hurts is AT WORST the second-best quarterback in the NFL behind Mahomes.
Since entering the National Football League, Hurts has won 46 games in 66 regular-season starts. That equates to a win percentage of 0.697%, the tenth-highest mark of all-time for an NFL quarterback with at least 60 starts. He also improved to 6-3 in the postseason and earned Super Bowl MVP honors last night, making him one of just two active quarterbacks to have won that award.
His passing yardage in the playoffs may have been on the lower end but Hurts still finished the year tied with Jayden Daniels and Patrick Mahomes for the league lead in postseason passing touchdowns (five). Tack on another five rushing touchdowns, and you are looking at the most prolific scoring quarterback in the 2025 NFL playoffs. Patrick Mahomes was the next-closest QB to Hurts with seven total postseason TDs.
The scariest part about all of this: Hurts is only 26 years old. He’s not even 27, yet he’s already been to two Super Bowls and won one of them. Ask any Seahawks or Packers fan though, it’s hard to win multiple Super Bowls. After you win one, there’s no guarantee you’ll even make it back to another. However, Hurts is under contract through the end of the 2026-27 season, and the Eagles look poised to make another run next season.
I have a feeling that this will not be the last time we see Jalen Hurts hoist the Lombardi Trophy. In the meantime, start looking at Hurts as Patrick Mahomes’ and Josh Allen’s equivalent.
Saquon Barkley just had the best season ever by a running back
We all knew that Saquon Barkley was immensely talented. However, his skills were being wasted by the New York Giants. Had Giants general manager Joe Schoen forked over the money Barkley asked for in the off-season, he would still be a loser in New York rather than a Super Bowl Champion in Philadelphia.
With the Super Bowl LIX victory, I think it’s safe to say that Saquon Barkley completed the best year we have ever seen from a running back.
During the regular season, Barkley ran for 2,005 yards in 16 games, becoming just the ninth running back in NFL history to rush for 2,000+ yards in a single season. Had Barkley played in Week 18, he might have broken Eric Dickerson’s single-season rushing record of 2,105 yards.
At the end of the day though, it was a smart decision for Barkley to sit out the final game of the regular season because it allowed him to be healthy and prepared for the playoffs. This enabled Barkley to rush for 499 yards in the postseason, bringing his single-season rushing total to 2,504 yards. That represents a new NFL single-season rushing record as he surpassed Hall of Famer Terrell Davis who ran for 2,476 yards during the 1998-99 regular season and playoffs.
If you ask Saquon though, he won’t tell you that he cared about breaking rushing records. The only thing he was interested in was winning his first Super Bowl.
“It was a hell of a year, but all of the numbers and stats or records are cool, but the best thing is to be able to hold that Lombardi Trophy,” Barkley told the Associated Press.
The good news for Saquon: he got the Lombardi Trophy AND the record. Now that’s impressive.
This was a bad Super Bowl
Now that the dust has settled, I think we can all admit that Super Bowl LIX was a forgettable one if you weren’t a Philadelphia Eagles fan.
There were several issues with the 2025 Super Bowl. First and most importantly, the game was boring. It was a blowout basically the entire way through. The Chiefs scored two touchdowns in the final three minutes of the contest. Prior to those TDs, the score was 40-6. Not exactly a barn burner by any stretch of the imagination.
The game wasn’t even a blowout of epic proportions. The 18-point victory is tied for the 16th-largest margin of victory in a Super Bowl. Had KC not scored those late TDs, it would’ve been the fifth-biggest point differential in Super Bowl history.
The commercials weren’t great. Some of them (Stella Artois “David & Dave: The Other David,” NFL “Flag 50,” Little Caesars “Whoa!,” and Hellmann’s “When Sally Met Hellmann’s“) were funny and cute, but there weren’t any that really stood out to me as truly excellent. We had nothing like the “1984” Apple commercial or Betty White getting crushed during a backyard football game.
Even the halftime show was just okay. Kendrick Lamar gave an excellent performance, but if you’re not a fan of rap music, then that halftime show probably didn’t appeal to you all that much.
Between the blowout, the so-so halftime show, and the lackluster commercials, Super Bowl LIX was one of the worst Super Bowls we have had in recent years.