Eagles Picked As Super Bowl Winners By Peter King; Chiefs Rematch?

Peter King of NBC Sports predicts the Philadelphia Eagles will beat the Buffalo Bills for the next NFL championship.

Super Bowl hangover?

Nah, the Philadelphia Eagles have ostensibly been vaccinated against that by a fortified roster and unquestioned leader of men in quarterback Jalen Hurts, according to Peter King of NBC Sports.

In fact, the veteran writer in his weekly Monday column, Football Morning in America, picked the Eagles to win it all this season, finishing it off with a 30-26 triumph over the Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl LVIII.

King's rationale?

"I don’t think there’s a clear weakness on the Eagles," he wrote." Corner depth, maybe. Backup quarterback. But the offensive line is top-three in the league, defensive-front-seven depth is unrivaled and the quarterback is about to take his place with [Kansas City's Patrick] Mahomes and [Cincinnati's] Joe Burrow at the very top of the QB pantheon. ... I have a Philly-Dallas NFC title game, which could be epic."

Football Morning in America is up! 🔮🙌 In my column this week:

🦅 My 2023 Super Bowl pick
🙀 A shocking prediction for the AFC's top seed
🏆 Who's taking home this year's awards?
😎 Coach Prime walks the walkhttps://t.co/cfzFEdfTin

— Peter King (@peter_king) September 4, 2023

King went on to explain that he believes the Eagles have the best roster in football and predicted Hurts will win the league's MVP award.

OK, now for the caveat.

While his reasoning may be sound, history is working against the Eagles, just as it has for all but three Super Bowl losers in the game's history.

It's hard enough for teams that lose the Super Bowl just to come back and make the playoffs. But winning the whole thing? It's happened only three times, the last being when the New England Patriots came back after falling to the Eagles in Super Bowl LII and edged the Los Angeles Rams, 13-3, in the lowest-scoring Super Bowl.

Before that, you have to go all the way back to January of 1973, when the Miami Dolphins won it all after losing the Super Bowl the year before, which is when the Dallas Cowboys won to ease their pain from losing to the Baltimore Colts the year before.

And that, ladies and gentlemen, is it. No other team that has lost the Super Bowl has come back and won it the next year.

But while we're on the subject, the Bills did make four straight Super Bowls from the 1990 through 1993 seasons but lost them all.

Together, the Eagles and Bills have a 1-7 record in Super Bowls.

That's not to say they won't end their seasons on opposite sidelines of Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas next February. It's just that the experts who work there see it a little differently. They favor the Chiefs repeating as winners and Eagles repeating as losers.

Either way, make sure your seatbelts are fastened and tray tables are upright. We've been cleared for takeoff.