Eagles' DeVonta Smith on Super Bowl Loss: 'Nothing We Can Do!'

Philadelphia Eagles receiver DeVonta Smith isn't interested in dwelling on the team's Super Bowl loss a season ago.

Receiver DeVonta Smith and the Philadelphia Eagles offense played well enough to give the team a chance to win Super Bowl LVII last season. Unfortunately for them, they ran into two future Hall of Famers in quarterback Patrick Mahomes and tight end Travis Kelce, so the 35 points the Eagles scored weren't enough to defeat the Kansas City Chiefs. 

At this point, it is what it is. From the perspective of Smith, there's no use in revisiting quarterback Jalen Hurts' second-quarter fumble, outgoing defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon's struggles to adjust against Andy Reid's offense or the holding call on cornerback James Bradberry that essentially ended the game. What's done is done. 

"There's nothing we can do about that now," Smith said this week. "We out here, new season, training camp, trying to get better. Thinking about that does nothing for you."

While fellow Eagles wideout A.J. Brown perhaps had the more notable performance in Super Bowl LVII because of his 45-yard touchdown reception in the second quarter, Smith actually finished in a tie with JuJu Smith-Schuster for the game lead in receptions (seven) and was the only player with 100 receiving yards in the tilt. 

If you said before the game that Smith and Brown would combine for nearly 200 receiving yards and Hurts would rush for three touchdowns, most would have predicted that the biggest game in American sports would have ended with green and white confetti falling and the Eagles hoisting the Lombardi Trophy. Instead, the Eagles lost 38-35, the kind of defeat they'll probably never get completely over even if much of this core ends up winning a championship together. 

But Smith is right: it's time for the Eagles to turn the page. That doesn't mean that getting back to the Super Bowl isn't their goal, but with an 17-game regular season ahead of them, it's not helpful to look that far ahead. As much as it's a cliché, Smith and the Eagles do need to take things one day at a time, even if they are currently the favorites to represent the NFC in Super Bowl LVIII. 

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