Dominant defense, Jalen Hurts lifts Eagles to a 40-22 win over Chiefs in Super Bowl 59
In what can only be described as a beatdown, the Eagles exacted revenge on the Chiefs, winning Super Bowl LIX in dominant fashion, 40-22.
Vic Fangio’s No. 1 ranked defense held Kansas City to 275 yards of total offense and 3-11 on third downs, with Patrick Mahomes getting sacked six times on the night. Philadelphia quarterback Jalen Hurts was 17 of 22 passing for 221 yards, two touchdowns, one interception, and a 119.7 passer rating.
Kansas City scored 16 fourth-quarter points, but it was too late as the Eagles jumped out to a 34-6 lead in the third quarter and bullied the Chiefs throughout the contest. In what can only be described as a team win, the Eagles won despite Saquon Barkley getting held to 57 yards on 25 carries.
Jalen Hurts led the Eagles with a Super Bowl record of 11 carries for 72 yards and one rushing touchdown.
With Barkley shut down, DeVonta Smith had four catches for 69 yards (17.3 avg) and one touchdown. A.J. Brown had three catches for 43 yards and a touchdown.
Reid is the NFL’s second-oldest coach. Will he call it a career after the Super Bowl?
Andy Reid has nothing left to prove in his NFL career. He’s the winningest coach in franchise history for both the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles — the two teams who’ll meet in the 2025 Super Bowl.
He’s led those squads to 273 regular season wins in 26 seasons as a head coach. That’s fourth most in league history but still 55 behind all-time leader Don Shula. With that target in reach — it would take about four seasons given the Chiefs’ current success — and Bill Belichick (third on the list) now coaching at North Carolina, it’s possible he takes the crown before the decade is up.
But Reid is also the NFL’s second-oldest coach at 66 years old in a league where guys like Pete Carroll, just hired as Las Vegas Raiders play-caller at 73 this winter, are an anomaly. Could Super Bowl 59 be his swan song?
“That’s not part of it,” said Reid. “I just enjoy teaching. I don’t get caught up much in the stats or the records. I enjoy being around the guys. I enjoy football, the game. You can’t put in the hours we do and not enjoy it. I love the game.”
His love of the game will leave Kansas City in good hands through at least the 2025 NFL season.
Ellett quit his job at Goldman Sachs for a chance with the Chiefs. He’s made the most of it.
Andy Reid has a cabal of talented assistant coaches roaming the Kansas City Chiefs sideline. But one may stand out more than most.
That’s because Porter Ellett, assistant running backs coach, only has one arm.
Ellett has been an important piece of the Chiefs success. He was hired as Reid’s senior assistant in 2017 before earning a promotion to offensive quality control coach in 2020. By 2024, he’d been named second-in-command of a running back room led by Isiah Pacheco and Samaje Perine.
Ellett took an unconventional path to the sideline — especially for someone whose high school didn’t even have a football team. Reid saw him in a facilities management role on a visit to Baylor University, where Ellett was working toward a graduate degree. He left his job at Goldman Sachs to pursue his NFL dream. From an interview with Alan Olson:
I was attending grad school there, studying sports management, and then working in the facilities at the football stadium, McLean Stadium, as I was studying. That is how I ended up here. Coach Reid called me; took the job; came to Kansas City.
From there, Ellett worked his way up the team’s organizational chart, soaking up wisdom from the winningest head coach in both Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles franchise history.
ESPN ran a profile on Ellett prior to this year’s regular season meeting between the Chiefs and Buffalo Bills, chronicling his life from the moment he lost his arm as a child in a farm accident to his rise up the NFL ranks.
Ellett went from a potential career in finance to a place on one of the winningest coaching staffs in NFL history. That’s remarkable for anyone, one arm or two.
Andy Reid’s coaching proteges have gone on to see quite a bit of success in the NFL.
Kansas City’s Andy Reid is one of the most accomplished NFL coaches in history.
In 26 seasons as a head coach at the professional ranks, Reid has a 273-146-1 career record and has won three Super Bowls. On Sunday night, he’s searching for his fourth as his Chiefs take on the Philadelphia Eagles, his former team, in the 2025 Super Bowl in New Orleans.
Between his stint in Philadelphia from 1999-12, where he led the team to a Super Bowl appearance following the 2004 season, and his legendary time in Kansas City with Patrick Mahomes, Reid’s coaching tree features quite a few big names who have gone on to have successful careers in their own rights.
Here are all 11 former Reid assistants who have since become NFL head coaches.
Brad Childress
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Vikings head coach from 2006-10
Worked with Reid: Eagles 1999-2005, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach; Chiefs 2013-17, spread game analyst, offensive coordinator and assistant head coach
John Harbaugh
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Ravens head coach from 2008-present
Worked with Reid: Eagles 1999-07, special teams coordinator and defensive backs coach
Steve Spagnuolo
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Rams head coach from 2009-11, Giants interim head coach in 2017
Worked with Reid: Eagles 1999-06, defensive assistant, defensive backs coach and linebackers coach; Chiefs 2019-present, defensive coordinator
Leslie Frazier
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Vikings head coach 2010-13
Worked with Reid: Eagles 1999-02, defensive backs coach
Ron Rivera
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Panthers head coach from 2011-19, Commanders head coach from 2020-23
Worked under Reid: Eagles 1999-03, linebackers coach
Pat Shurmur
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Browns head coach from 2010-12, Eagles interim head coach in 2015, Giants head coach from 2018-19
Worked under Reid: Eagles 1999-08, tight ends, offensive line and quarterbacks coach
Todd Bowles
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Dolphins interim head coach in 2011, Jets head coach from 2015-18, Buccaneers head coach from 2022-present
Worked with Reid: Eagles 2012, secondary coach, interim defensive coordinator
Doug Pederson
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Eagles head coach from 2016-20, Jaguars head coach from 2022-24
Worked with Reid: Eagles 2009-12, offensive quality control and quarterbacks coach; Chiefs 2013-15, offensive coordinator
Sean McDermott
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Bills head coach 2017-present
Worked with Reid: Eagles 2001-10, assistant to the head coach, defensive assistant, quality control, assistant defensive backs coach, defensive backs coach, linebackers coach and defensive coordinator
Matt Nagy
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Bears head coach from 2018-21
Worked with Reid: Eagles 2008-12, intern, coaches’ assistant and offensive quality control coach; Chiefs 2013-17, quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator
David Culley
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Texans head coach in 2021
Worked with Reid: Eagles 1999-12, wide receivers coach and senior offensive assistant; Chiefs 2013-16, assistant head coach and wide receivers coach
“And the only problem I had with him then is that every time I get back to New York and open up my travel bag and all my equipment in it, there’d be a bunch of Eagles crap in it.”
That didn’t sit too well with Strahan as one could imagine but he had to see the humor in it.
Reid coached the Eagles from 1999 through 2012 and faced Strahan 20 total times until Strahan’s retirement in 2008. The Giants went 9-9 in the regular season and 1-1 in the playoffs against the Eagles and Reid over that period.
Andy Reid is one of the greatest coaches in NFL history, but how many Super Bowl rings does he have in his career?
Andy Reid has become one of the greatest coaches in NFL history thanks to his remarkable success with the Kansas City Chiefs since 2013. He’s led the team to double-digit wins in 11 of his 12 seasons with the Chiefs, winning at least nine games each of those years with 11 playoff appearances.
Including this year, Reid has led Kansas City to five Super Bowl appearances, an incredible run of dominance in the AFC.
But how many Super Bowls has the decorated coach won in his career?
Andy Reid Super Bowl rings
Reid has won the Super Bowl three times as a head coach, all with the Chiefs. His first ring came in the 2019 season when the Chiefs beat the 49ers in Super Bowl LIV, and he’s won the last two Super Bowls against the Eagles and 49ers in the last two years.
He also led the Chiefs to the Super Bowl in 2020 but lost to Tom Brady and the Buccaneers.
As the head coach of the Eagles, Reid led Philadelphia to one Super Bowl in 2004 but lost that game to the Patriots, his only championship appearance with the Eagles.
Despite leading one of the more impressive turnarounds in NFL history, it wasn’t enough for Dan Quinn to finish among the top four for NFL Coach of the Year.
You likely heard that Josh Allen won the MVP award at the NFL Honors ceremony on Thursday night. This upset some, who believed Lamar Jackson should’ve won the award. Both players had strong arguments for the prize.
However, that’s not the biggest robbery from Thursday’s annual NFL award show.
Washington Commanders head coach Dan Quinn didn’t win NFL Coach of the Year. We presented our case about how Quinn was robbed. Afterward, we learned where Quinn finished in the Coach of the Year voting: fifth among the five candidates.
Yes, you read that correctly. The coach who inherited a 4-13 roster and won 12 games in his first season and two more on the road in the playoffs before falling short in the NFC championship.
Kevin O’Connell won the award. O’Connell was deserving, leading the Vikings to 14 wins, and the job he did helping quarterback Sam Darnold turn his career around was super impressive. Minnesota won seven games in 2023.
The other finalists, Dan Campbell (Lions) and Andy Reid (Chiefs) entered the season expected to be in their respective conference championship games. Both finished ahead of Quinn.
Finally, the other candidate, a former Coach of the Year and Super Bowl champion, Sean Payton (Broncos), finished fourth. Payton went 8-9 in 2023 and 10-7 in 2025. Yet, somehow, voters felt he was more deserving than Quinn.
This isn’t a knock on any of these four coaches. If they walk away, Reid and Payton are Hall of Fame coaches right now. Campbell has built a juggernaut in Detroit, while O’Connell has quickly proved to be an elite coach.
AP Coach of the Year voting;
Coach
Kevin O’Connell 25-18-7-0-0: 361
Dan Campbell 19-10-8-8-3: 283
Andy Reid 4-8-9-4-4: 119
Sean Payton 1-2-10-5-11: 71
Dan Quinn 1-6-7-8-8:…
The Washington Commanders were a mess before Josh Harris bought the team in July 2023. They finished 4-13 during his first season as owner, firing head coach/GM Ron Rivera. Everything was new when Harris hired Adam Peters as the new general manager last January. The duo later hired Quinn as head coach, a move many criticized.
Quinn clearly got the last laugh, proving to be the leader the Commanders desperately needed. Somehow, that wasn’t enough to get him NFL Coach of the Year honors, or finish in the top four.
Quinn doesn’t care. He would tell you he doesn’t care and that would be genuine. That’s not the type of guy Dan Quinn is. He’s all about the team. Quinn would quickly deflect to Washington’s other leaders, his coaching staff, and the players for the Commanders’ 2024 success.
Quinn should’ve been the NFL Coach of the Year., or, at the very least, finished a close second to O’Connell. Those Much like the voting for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, this system is broken, too.
Philadelphia earned its second Super Bowl appearance in three seasons after posting a franchise-record-tying 14-3 record and a postseason run that featured three straight victories at home, including a 55-23 win against Washington in the NFC Championship Game (most points scored in a conference championship game in NFL history).
For only the second time, two Black quarterbacks will face off on the NFL’s biggest stage. Hurts and Mahomes were the first two in Super Bowl 57. Since 2022, Jalen Hurts has been 42-12 (including the playoffs) as a starting quarterback, just behind Patrick Mahomes (48-10).
Philadelphia Eagles star safety C.J. Gardner-Johnson was hilarious while mic’d up at Super Bowl LIX Opening Night
C.J. Gardner-Johnson’s departure is the mistake that Howie Roseman corrected. The boisterous defensive back will have the most pivotal role as we approach Super Bowl LIX, which is a little over 52 hours away.
Gardner-Johnson returned to Philadelphia after one year in Detroit. He re-energized the Eagles’ defense and stabilized Vic Fangio’s backend. The former Florida Gators defensive back is also a rapper and content creator in his off-time.
With Super Bowl opening night being the a ‘Movie’, it was only right that a mic’d up Gardner-Johnson got to direct the show.
Gardner-Johnson tied for the 3rd-most interceptions (career-high-tying 6) in the league, trailing only Kerby Joseph (9) and Xavier McKinney (8). According to PFF, he is 3rd among NFL safeties with nine forced incompletions, behind Brian Branch (12) and Ar’Darius Washington (10).
Kansas City #Chiefs head coach Andy Reid shares final thoughts on officiating before Super Bowl LIX: ‘They’re doing their job’ | @EdEastonJr
Thursday was the last press conference media day before the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles played in Super Bowl LIX. Chiefs head coach Andy Reid was once again questioned about rumors that game officials showed preferential treatment to Kansas City.
“They don’t favor one side for the other,” said Reid. “That’s not how this thing goes.” I don’t think the officials care about what’s said; they’re doing their job, and they’re doing it to the best of their ability. They don’t favor one side or the other; that’s not how this thing goes.”
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell shot down assumptions that game referees favored the Chiefs during his Super Bowl press conference earlier in the week. Reid wanted to ensure he emphasized what his team had echoed going into Sunday’s game.
“It’s a good story, but that’s not the reality of how it works. You’d be insulting them to think that’s what they do,” said Reid. “They go out, and they call it like they see it. There’s some, as a coach, I sit there and go, ‘I don’t agree with it.’ There are some I agree with. That’s how it goes.”
The Chiefs won eleven games by one-score margins during the regular season and were the top seed in the AFC playoffs. A third consecutive Super Bowl victory this Sunday will silence the critics.
