While the AFC championship match was coming to an end, the two -week window to talk about the Super Bowl Lix started.
The Super Bowl is the most watched and also the most dissected match of the sports calendar. A week before the arrival of the teams in New Orleans, let’s take a look at the 10 scenarios that we will hear a lot about before the start on February 9:
The quest for the 3 of a row
There have been 58 Super Bowls to date, and no team has ever won three in a row. Chiefs have a chance to be the first in NFL history to do so.
Know that you will hear that no NFL team has never won three row championships. That’s wrong. The packers did it twice, in 1929-31, when there were no playoffs and the record determined the champion. Green Bay reoffended in 1965-67, these last two titles being the first two Super Bowls. But no team has won three consecutive super bowls. No team won two super bowls in a row even reached the Super Bowl in the third season, which means that the chiefs have already written a story.
The greatness of Saquon Barkley
Barkley was incredible all season. He escaped the misery of the Giants franchise and during his first season with the Eagles, Barkley had one of the most beautiful seasons that a ball carrier has ever known. Barkley traveled more than 2,000 yards during the regular season, but participated in week 18 with a shot to break the race on the ground in a single season. It seems intelligent now that the Eagles participate in the Super Bowl. Barkley continued to dominate in the playoff series, totaling 119 yards during the round of Wild Card against the Packers of Green Bay, 205 yards against the Rams of Los Angeles during the division round, then set the tone for the champion match NFC taking its first race. 60 yards for a touchdown. Barkley needs 30 Floor yards to the Super Bowl to beat the Terrell Davis record for the largest number of yards on the ground in one season, including the playoffs. It was the year of the renaissance of the ball carriers, with Barkley in the lead.
Tom Brady on Stand
When some 130 million people watch a match on their television, the broadcast itself is a story. Especially when it includes Tom Brady, Fox’s advertiser at $ 375 million. Brady is in his first season as a color commentator n ° 1 of Fox and the criticisms of his work were mostly mixed, at best. No player appeared in more super bowls than Brady, who participated in 10 of them. Playing like Quarterback was however in its comfort zone. We will see how he manages the pressure of being summoned for the biggest match of the year.
Vic Fangio will look for a ring
Fangio has spent 24 seasons as a defensive coordinator or head coach and is widely considered as one of the greatest defensive minds of sport. His coach career started as a high school assistant in 1979. However, he never won Super Bowl. Fangio deserved this trip for the big match. The defense of the Eagles was formidable all season, finishing first for the yards allocated and second for the allocated points. Fangio will draw a lot of attention to his great career before the Super Bowl kick -off.
Back to New Orleans
New Orleans will equalize a record this year. Miami welcomed the greatest number of super bowls, with 11, and it will be the 11th for New Orleans. The Superdome Caesars holds the stadium record that hosted the most super bowls. This will be the eighth (the Miami Super Bowls were divided between the hard rock stadium and the orange bowl). The last in New Orleans was the Super Bowl XLVII in February 2013, known for an exciting match won by the Baltimore Ravens against the 49ers of San Francisco and also for the extinction of the Enlightenment causing a delay of a little more than ‘Half an hour. . After the New Year’s attack, during which a van struck a group on Bourbon Street, security will be a big deal for the Super Bowl.
Complaints concerning arbitration
It is impossible to watch the matches of the chiefs without hearing about the referees. A large part of the public of the NFL thinks that managers are favorable to Kansas City and await the first 50/50 call to follow the chemin des Chiefs to unload on social networks.
When you attract an audience like that of the Super Bowl, it will become even more noisy. There will be a lot of discussions over the next two weeks on arbitration, and the skeptics will evoke the “disturbance syndrome of chiefs”, the term designating those who believe that the chief dynasty is supported by partial officials. This conversation is not going to disappear.
Jalen Hurts’ strange journey
Hurts was almost MVP and MVP of the Super Bowl two seasons. He won either but was a budding star. It was not bad at all this season, but it was not a prolific passer in a team that plays a resolutely old-school game consisting in running the ball and relying on the defense either. Hurts was not serious at all, but he will be strange in the world of NFL analysis centered on the quarter to realize that Hurts is far from the reason why his team is back In a super bowl.
AJ Brown and the constant controversy
Brown said it better when he was seen reading a book on the sidelines in an eliminatory match and was asked if it was due to frustration. “Why do you still think I’m frustrated?” Brown said. The controversy always seems to follow Brown. This is partly explained by the intense Philadelphia market. His apparently harmless response according to which the Eagles passes play was to improve towards the end of the regular season was a reason why we were wondering for days if he and Jalen Hurts were getting well. The only thing about Brown is that he will be one of the key players in the Super Bowl Lix. And perhaps the most likely to be involved in a controversy made the week before the match.
NFL new bad guys
When the teams win too much, fans start to hate them. It happened to the Patriots of New England ten years ago. It happens to the chiefs now.
The only crime of the chiefs is to continue to win, but that was enough to return the NFL fans against them. Their dynasty began as a fun and comforting story, between the sympathetic Andy Reid who finally won a super bowl and a dynamic quarterback star in the person of Patrick Mahomes. This has been disappeared for a long time, replaced by feelings of jealousy and bitterness among the supporters of one of the 31 other teams. This is all you should know: the chiefs will make the team of Philadelphia the courageous outsider that everyone supports the Super Bowl on Sunday.
Howie Roseman’s plan
Roseman, the Director General of Eagles, is one of the favorites of the NFL media. This is the least we can say. You might believe that Roseman will not take the theft of the Eagles team to get to the Super Bowl, it will simply walk on the water to New Orleans. But it was he who deserved most praise. Roseman’s drafts produced players like the defensive platform Jalen Carter, one of the most dominant defenders in the NFL. His signature of Saquon Barkley changed the trajectory of the Eagles season. The exchange of Roseman for the receiver AJ Brown a few years ago was a flight to everyone’s sight. It is easy to respect Roseman’s approach and was much more difficult for other teams to reproduce it.
