The Patriots spook teams sometimes-they trick them into thinking something awful will happen, and then it does. The Eagles had one play like that, when Foles threw a good pass to Alshon Jeffery that somehow bounced around and got picked off by a safety who wasn’t even covering Jeffery. The big thing that helped me was knowing that I didn’t have to be Superman.” The Eagles expected it, partly because they were sure they were the best team in the NFL. Maybe we didn’t think Foles would beat Brady and the Patriots. The day after star quarterback Carson Wentz went down with a torn ACL, with everybody in Philly freaking out about their Iggles, coach Doug Pederson met with the team and “erased all that,” Long said. They never came close to a players-only meeting. Safety Malcolm Jenkins, the team leader, says it was the easiest team to lead. You know what’s crazy about this Eagles team? They didn’t seem to stress about anything. None of them is quite like the one in Philadelphia. They are gone, but they are a part of this, because Philly does not trade its old heroes for new ones. Oh, if Reggie could have seen the party this would start … Reggie and Jerome Brown and Buddy Ryan and the rest. He knew what you knew: “If we would have lost the game, that would have been our fault.” But Barnett saw the ball in the air and recovered the fumble for the biggest play in the life of a man who broke Reggie White’s sack record at Tennessee. He also knows he can beat a guard to the quarterback-even with a hamstring which he strained in the first half (by the fourth quarter, he said, he couldn’t even feel the pain). Graham pushed from the inside, the way he has so often this year, past Patriots guard Shaq Mason and poked the ball out of Brady’s hand.ĭerek Barnett knew the Eagles’ defensive line was supposed to dominate but it hadn’t. Click here to order.īrandon Graham is in his eighth year with the Eagles, so he knows the frustrations of a city that had not won a title since 1960. Eagles fans, celebrate Philadelphia’s first Super Bowl title with SI’s special commemorative package.
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