Eagles Team Truly Is Philly Special: Philly Sports Chatter

WARMINSTER, PA —The next two weeks will be fun celebrating and anticipating the trip for the Philadelphia Eagles to Super Bowl LVII in Arizona.

For the next two weeks, we'll dissect the matchup against the Kansas City Chiefs. This game has so many storylines.

It's Coach Andy Reid facing his old team. It's the two MVP quarterbacks, Patrick Mahomes and Jalen Hurts, going against each other. And it's Travis against Jason in a battle of brothers where Mother Kelce may have to choose sides.

Now that the Philadelphia Eagles easily dominated the San Francisco 49ers in Sunday's 31-7 win at the Linc in the NFC Championship game, the two No. 1 seeded teams in both leagues will square off for bragging rights as the best.

This will be the fourth time the Eagles are getting to the Super Bowl. And after losing the first two to the Oakland Raiders and New England Patriots before beating the Pats in 2017, there's no reason to think that the Birds can't even their Super Bowl record.

Yes, they are that good. They are that dominating. I even predicted before the season started that these Birds were going to be Super Bowl bound.

There just seemed to be something about the team's chemistry, management, leadership, and coaching that combined to make a perfect storm where NFL executives would salivate at the talent and the potential.

Credit Owner Jeffrey Lurie and General Manager Howie Roseman for first picking Coach Nick Sirianni out of the police lineup. He was on nobody's radar. They did this with Doug Pederson before and those results produced the team's first Super Bowl victory.

It's a shame that Sirianni wasn't even considered for Coach of the Year. How was he missing from the lineup?

But Roseman was chosen as a candidate for Executive of the Year. (I even predicted that in early September.) As he should be for assembling a roster that's solid across the board. You won't find a team that can easily dominate on offense and defense.

But with Jalen Hurts, A.J. Brown, Miles Sanders, Devonte Smith, and Dallas Goedert as weapons with the best offensive line in football anchored by Kelce and Lane Johnson.

Then there's a powerful defense of playmakers with a defensive front that basically battered the 49ers quarterbacks, knocking both Brock Purdy and Josh Johnson out of the game with lots of hits and sacks.

Off-season acquisition Haasan Reddick has been a sack machine and so has the rest of the squad, leading the league in sacks and putting up numbers not seen since that Buddy Ryan "46" Chicago Bears defense.

This will mark the second time in five years the Eagles have gone to the Super Bowl. And that's a remarkable accomplishment for a franchise that forever couldn't find their winning ways.

But this shouldn't be a one-and-done appearance. Lurie and Roseman have put together a team that could be an NFC dynasty for at least five years. Just like the Chiefs are in the AFC with Reid.

Sirianni may not pull out a trick play as Pederson did with the "Philly Special."

He doesn't really need to do so.

This team truly is Philly Special.