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Chiefs players blindly pick Bo Nix over Patrick Mahomes based on stats

When asked to blindly choose between two QBs based on 2024 stats, Chiefs players picked Bo Nix over Patrick Mahomes in a DNVR interview.

Before the Super Bowl against the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, Kansas City Chiefs players were made available for interviews during Super Bowl Media Week in New Orleans leading up to the Big Game.

Zac Stevens of DNVR Broncos caught up with several Chiefs players last week and asked them to choose between two quarterbacks based on blind stats. The first quarterback threw 26 touchdowns with 11 interceptions. The second quarterback threw 29 touchdowns against 12 interceptions.

Six of the eight players chose the second QB (29 TDs). The seventh “barely” picked the first QB and another player simply asked, “Which one was Patrick Mahomes?”

Stevens then revealed to the players that the first QB with 29 touchdowns was Bo Nix, while the QB with 26 was Mahomes. Check out the video:

Nix went 22-of-30 for 215 yards with two touchdowns against the Chiefs in Week 10 while Mahomes went 28-of-42 for 266 yards with one score in that contest. They’re set to face off again (twice) in 2025.

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Travis Kelce sounded deflated after the Chiefs’ crushing Super Bowl loss

Travis Kelce looked pretty deflated after losing this year’s Super Bowl.

The Kansas City Chiefs had a rotten 2025 Super Bowl, losing to the Philadelphia Eagles in an absolute beatdown.

The 40-22 Kansas City loss came as a shock, and you could tell from Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce how badly this one stung.

“We haven’t played that bad all year,” a somber Kelce told reporters after the game, per The Washington Post‘s Sam Fortier.

He’s not wrong; this is the worst Chiefs loss of the season, and it came at the absolute worst time possible.

Kelce has won three Super Bowls with Kansas City, so nobody is going to feel too, too sorry for him and his teammates.

However, dropping a Super Bowl stinks for any team, and you feel the loss in Kelce’s sullen response.

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Tom Brady’s Super Bowl LIX commentary had NFL fans missing Greg Olsen

Panthers great Greg Olsen was sorely missed during FOX’s broadcast of Super Bowl LIX.

Tom Brady may be the “G.O.A.T.” of the gridiron, but the same cannot be said—at least for now—about his abilities in the broadcast booth. That title, rather, may currently belong to a Carolina Panthers great.

FOX’s presentation of the Philadelphia Eagles’ dominant Super Bowl LIX victory over the Kansas City Chiefs had its A-squad on the call, with Kevin Burkhardt on play-by-play duties and Brady on analysis. That two-man team looked a bit different just a few years ago, as former Panthers tight end Greg Olsen was the network’s No. 1 color commentator in the last Chiefs-Eagles showdown.

Olsen, however, was bumped away from Burkhardt beginning this season—leaving the top spot to Brady. And since then, fans have missed the two-time Emmy Award-winning broadcaster.

Sunday night was no different . . .

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Patrick Mahomes vowing to come back stronger after deflating Super Bowl loss should terrify the NFL

A motivated Patrick Mahomes is awful news for the NFL.

Let’s make no mistake. The Philadelphia Eagles earned the second Super Bowl championship in franchise history in convincing fashion. They were the NFL’s best team this year, and they showed it on the biggest stage in American sports on Sunday.

Put another way: the Kansas City Chiefs never stood a chance.

Nonetheless, I can’t help but shake the feeling about what a motivated Patrick Mahomes will look like after taking the second Super Bowl loss of his career on the chin. The three-time Super Bowl MVP made his thought process very clear after the Chiefs’ 40-22 defeat in New Orleans. This, after he was showing so much emotion at the end of the game.

Mahomes compared this loss in Super Bowl 59 to the beatdown his Chiefs received in Super Bowl 55 from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. To follow up that loss, Mahomes took Kansas City to three Super Bowls in four seasons, winning two of them.

After professing that his latest Super Bowl defeat will motivate him even more, I’m a little scared about what Mahomes will unveil next:

Mahomes doesn’t turn 30 until mid-September of next season. He’s officially played in five of the last six Super Bowls. Knowing what kind of great player he is, we’re still probably only at the start of Mahomes’ dominance over the NFL.

And a Mahomes that promises to come back stronger from a low point in his career is a player every team in the league should fear.

Patrick Mahomes classily dapped up his skill players at the end of his 2025 Super Bowl loss

Mahomes gave his teammates the “gentlemen, it has been a privilege playing with you” as his ship rapidly sank.

Patrick Mahomes had an awful night at the 2025 Super Bowl. His quest to win a third straight world championship failed spectacularly at the hands of a dominant Philadelphia Eagles defense. The Eagles’ pass rush battered him all night en route to a 40-22 win that wasn’t nearly as close as the final score indicates.

An early 34-0 deficit gave Mahomes and his teammates plenty of time to reflect on the loss while it was still in progress. And while he raged against that good night with a handful of garbage time touchdowns, the writing was on the wall.

Mahomes, like a good captain, thanked his crew as he prepared to go down with the ship.

Rather than sulk, Mahomes made sure his skill players knew they were appreciated. He gave out handshakes and hugs to contributors like Isiah Pacheco, Samaje Perine and, of course, Travis Kelce as he shrunk back to the cold comfort of his three other Super Bowl rings.

Did Travis Kelce propose to Taylor Swift after the 2025 Super Bowl?

Did he propose after the loss?

It’s once again the thing you wanted to happen, but we all figured it probably wasn’t going to happen.

And given the result of the 2025 Super Bowl, you had to figure it definitely wasn’t going to happen: Did Travis Kelce propose to Taylor Swift after the Kansas City Chiefs’ blowout loss to the Philadelphia Eagles?

We haven’t heard official word. But we assumed that he wouldn’t propose in our Taylor Swift prop bet predictions, mostly because we didn’t think he’d do it if they did win given all the cameras and people around. But if he WAS planning it, maybe it was scrapped since the Chiefs lost.

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Patrick Mahomes was holding back tears at the end of the Chiefs’ humbling Super Bowl loss

This was a tough way for Patrick Mahomes to go out.

In the end, the Kansas City Chiefs were one game from completing the first-ever Super Bowl three-peat in NFL history. But given the way the Philadelphia Eagles dominated them on Sunday night (a 40-22 final score was not at all reflective of how the game went), it sure felt like Kansas City was never that close to history.

Patrick Mahomes’ emotions throughout the Chiefs’ humbling defeat told the story.

There was Mahomes literally pouting after throwing a pick-six to Cooper DeJean near the end of the first half. Later, with the Chiefs’ loss officially cemented in the final minutes, Fox cameras captured the three-time Super Bowl MVP clearly holding back some tears as he made peace with his second career defeat in the Big Game:

Man, that’s such a brutal way for the NFL’s best player to go out. But knowing Mahomes, he will only come back stronger after this. He’s too great of a player to be down for long.

For now, Mahomes will have to roost in another loss on the biggest stage in American sports.

DeAndre Hopkins somberly summed up Patrick Mahomes’ Super Bowl struggles

It just wasn’t Patrick Mahomes’ day.

The Kansas City Chiefs probably didn’t expect to get clobbered by the Philadelphia Eagles during Sunday night’s Super Bowl in New Orleans.

However, that’s exactly what happened as the Eagles trounced the Chiefs for a stunning 40-22 victory.

Superstar quarterback Patrick Mahomes was brought back down to Earth during the contest, as the Eagles’ defensive line had him under duress for the entire game.

After the loss, Chiefs wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins summed up Mahomes’ struggles with a very empathetic explanation.

“He’s human,” Hopkins said (via New York Post Sports) of Mahomes, which is as relatable a reply as one can give.

We all have our down moments, and Mahomes had one of his on Super Bowl Sunday.

Hopkins was right to point out that even the greats aren’t perfect, and we’re sure Mahomes and Kansas City will brush this one off and be back in the big game one of these days.

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X reacts to Eagles beatdown of Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX

X reacts to Eagles’ win over Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX from a Commanders’ perspective.

For Washington Commanders fans, watching this year’s Super Bowl felt slightly different. After winning 12 games and two playoff games, the Commanders were one game short of appearing in their first Super Bowl in 33 years.

Unfortunately for Washington, it ran into the Philadelphia Eagles. Turnovers plagued the Commanders in their third matchup against the Eagles, allowing Philly to come away with a blowout win. That led to a rematch in Super Bowl LIX between the Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs. The Eagles and Chiefs met two years ago, with Kansas City coming away with a 38-35 win.

Sunday’s rematch proved to be a far different result, though, with the Eagles steamrolling the Chiefs 40-22 for their second Super Bowl championship in franchise history.

The game was never competitive, with Philadelphia owning a 24-0 halftime lead. Kansas City quarterback Patrick Mahomes struggled, throwing two first-half interceptions. While Mahomes finished the game with three touchdown passes, his final numbers were deceptive as he didn’t lead the Chiefs to their first score until they were already down 34-0.

Washington fans were not rooting for the Eagles. But many Commanders’ fans couldn’t help but wonder, “What could have been.” Could Washington have beaten Kansas City?

One thing was clear: the Commanders’ offense looked much better against Philly’s vaunted defense. Even with 10 turnovers in their three meetings against the Eagles, Jayden Daniels and the Commanders averaged 26 points per game against Philadelphia.

We took to X after the Eagles’ victory to see how some viewed this game from a Commanders’ perspective.

 

Eagles coach Nick Sirianni makes Hail Mary try at retaining Kellen Moore

Eagles coach Nick Sirianni made a Hail Mary try at retaining Kellen Moore after their Super Bowl championship: ‘Let’s run this (expletive) back’

You can’t hate a guy for trying. With another Super Bowl victory in hand and grinning players and coaches all around him, Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni took a moment to try and sustain his success a little longer.

Eagles offensive coordinator Kellen Moore put on a show in Sunday night’s runaway win over the Kansas City Chiefs, as did veteran defensive coordinator Vic Fangio. Sirianni thanked both of them in his postgame speech but he also made a last-second, maybe halfhearted plea to Moore with green confetti raining down around him from the postgame stage.

“Kellen, you know, let’s run this (expletive) back, Kellen,” Sirianni laughed, preparing to accept the Lombardi Trophy. “Let’s run this back.”

Moore’s looming departure for the New Orleans Saints has been the elephant in the room all week. It’s been repeatedly reported that Moore is expected to become the Saints’ next head coach now that the Super Bowl is behind him, but nothing is guaranteed until he’s signed his contract. Moore will fly back to Philadelphia on Monday with the Eagles and celebrate their championship win a little longer before turning his attention back to New Orleans.

So Sirianni will have some time to work to keep his team together. Let’s see if it makes a difference.

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