"Super Bowl 52"
First of all, allow me to congratulate the Philadelphia Eagles for their win against the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl... It was an exciting game to watch from start to finish!
The Eagles certainly earned every bit of the win.
Everybody knows that if you're gonna beat a team like the Patriots you gotta outscore them, and the Eagles put up 41 points which will win any football game in the NFL 99% of the time. From start to finish the Eagles pulled out all the stops and kept the pedal-to-the-metal.
Personally, I was not at all surprised about the outcome of the game, the score was higher than I thought it would be, but the Eagles winning wasn't shocking on any level. They were the best team in the league all season starting out 1-1 and finishing 14-2 which is very impressive.
Late in the season the start QB and MVP candidate for the Eagles, Carson Wentz, went out for the remainder of the season with an injury and for a brief moment hope faded, for a moment.
They had a backup, who is not really a backup, stepping into the role in the form of Nick Foles. Foles has bounced around the league a little, but he has either started or competed for the starting role for every team he has played on, and he did not disappoint.
Foles played a hell-of-a-game and was named Super Bowl MVP.
Though the Patriots made it interesting coming back from a double-digit deficit at halftime to take a 1-point lead late, the Eagles stayed on the throttle and pushed it back to a 5-point lead.
The Patriots had a chance with just over 2 minutes to play and possession of the ball, but a late turnover in the form of a Tom Brady fumble recovered by the Eagles allowed them to make it a 8-point lead with about 1 minute left.
The Patriots got close enough to try a Hail Mary, but like the 3 Super Bowl losses in the Brady-Belichick era, they came up short.
So the two teams that were considered the best in their conference all season long got there, and the best team won.
Tom Brady will be back for the Patriots, as well as Bill Belichick, so we know they'll be in contention again.
The Eagles will be very tough to beat in the next few seasons, with Carson Wentz returning as well as many others like Alshon Jefferey and many defensive players, and I look forward to seeing them play.
Congratulations again to the team and the fans of the Super Bowl 52 Champions, the Philadelphia Eagles.