This year's matchup is a battle of heavyweights. 🏈 Both teams finished the regular season atop the standings at 14-3. 🏈 Both were the 1 seed in their conference. And now, both have won two playoff games to arrive here in the SuperBowl.
This is a problem for the Chiefs — specifically their tackles, Orlando Brown and Andrew Wylie, the outermost of the five linemen, who have struggled at times this year. If the Eagles can get by them to get regular pressure on Mahomes, the Chiefs' offense could struggle to find a rhythm and move the ball.
Hurts and Mahomes, both of whom are Black, each spoke this week about the historic nature of the game and nodded to those who came before them in the long road to integrate the position.Hurts sprained his throwing shoulder toward the end of the regular season, causing him to miss two games, both of which the Eagles lost. He's since struggled with the deep ball — although both of the Eagles' playoff wins were so decisive that it didn't much matter.
Tight end Travis Kelce, #87, and quarterback Patrick Mahomes, #15, celebrate after their Kansas City Chiefs won the AFC title game.Many famous pairs of brothers have played in the NFL — the Mannings, the Watts, the Barbers, the Cunninghams — but none had yet squared off in the Super Bowl.
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