How a Jaguars' Touchdown Helped the Chiefs Beat the Eagles in Super Bowl LVII

The Jaguars' touchdown to Jamal Agnew in Week 4 against the Eagles helped Andy Reid and the Chiefs score two touchdowns in Super Bowl LVII.

Leave it to the Kansas City Chiefs to pull plays from the past in the biggest moments. 

They did it in their last Super Bowl win. They did it multiple times in Sunday's 38-35 win over the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LVII. And they did it with perfection, scoring twice on a play the Jacksonville Jaguars inspired them on. 

In Jacksonville's 29-21 loss to the Eagles in Week 4, the Jaguars showed why the Eagles could be beaten in the game's biggest moments. It started with wide receiver Jamal Agnew, who lined up on the outside before the ball was snapped. He then motioned into the backfield before reversing course and flaring back out to the flat on the outside. 

It was one of the easiest touchdowns of Jacksonville's season, a perfectly executed and planned play-call by Andy Reid disciple Doug Pederson. And it was exactly that play that led to the Chiefs scoring two touchdowns in their second Super Bowl win in four seasons, according to The Athletic's Rustin Dodd.

But they also utilized something they had noticed in their film study and spent the previous two weeks perfecting. According to Henne, the Chiefs’ coaches had discovered that when the Eagles lined up in man coverage, they would overcompensate if an offense used a motion that looked like a jet sweep.

On Saturday night, Bieniemy had put a play up on the screen for everyone on the Chiefs’ offense to see. It came from the Eagles’ game against the Jaguars earlier this season, and it featured Jacksonville receiver Jamal Agnew faking as if he were going in motion before stopping, reversing course and getting open for a touchdown.

Henne understood the offensive mind of Jaguars coach Doug Pederson, the Andy Reid disciple who had guided the Eagles to a Super Bowl championship five years ago. So he figured it would be open. He did not anticipate that it would lead to two touchdown passes for Mahomes, but that is what happened, the Chiefs using the look on a 5-yard touchdown pass to Kadarius Toney before running it again on the opposite side to Skyy Moore on a 4-yard touchdown pass that gave the Chiefs a 35-27 lead with 9:22 left in the fourth quarter.

“(Bieniemy) put it on tape and said: ‘Hey, like, if they do this, this guy is wide open. It’s man (coverage),’” Henne said. “They’re just trying to protect themselves from the jet sweep and trying to bubble over the top and get an extra player (on the other side of the field). But we faked the jet twice, and they didn’t figure it out.”

The play Bieniemy's talking about https://t.co/iMbnucJbQ6 pic.twitter.com/ACW3d6crX5

— Nate Christensen (@natech32) February 13, 2023

In the end, it was the Jaguars who helped reveal the Eagles' defensive weakness. Pederson saw it in Week 4, and his mentor was able to exploit it on the game's biggest stage.

The Jaguars hope this time next year, the Chiefs won't be able to use any more of their plays. Instead, the Jaguars hope to get to where the Chiefs are now. And maybe then, Pederson will look to one of Reid's old plays to help him out in a tight spot.