Yes, the Kansas City Chiefs lost a football game in brutal, brutal fashion, and it happened on the biggest stage of them all, the Super Bowl. The Chiefs got smashed by the Philadelphia Eagles 40-22 in a game where nothing went right for them.
Defeat is not a word strong enough for what the Chiefs endured in the form of a 40-22 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. Descriptions like annihilated, dominated, destroyed and even embarrassed seem more appropriate.
It was Kansas City’s first playoff loss in 1,106 days, and it brings a historic, truly remarkable run to an end.
For Chiefs Kingdom, the result, and the nature of it—a total beatdown—means some difficult-to-hear conversations about this team will transpire in the days and weeks to come. Already there has been talk about what the loss means for Kansas City’s dynasty and this team’s legacy.
This is a takedown of epic proportions — so severe that it’s immediately and permanently knocking Kansas City and Mahomes out of the top “dynasty” conversation.
— David Lombardi (@LombardiHimself) February 10, 2025
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“This is a takedown of epic proportions — so severe that it’s immediately and permanently knocking Kansas City and Mahomes out of the top 'dynasty' conversation,” said David Lombardi, a 49ers writer for the San Francisco Standard.
Others will likely espouse similar onions, about both the Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes’ standing in the greatest of all time debate. But any of these conversations need a heavy
The Chiefs deserve criticism for the way they performed. The offensive line was a sieve, Mahomes played terribly, and the offense overall was a total trainwreck. But that criticism should not undermine what this team achieved leading up to yesterday’s game – something that had never been done.
Yes, Kansas City fell short of its ultimate goal, a three-peat. However, one loss does not erase the fact that the Chiefs made history along the way.
Kansas City won three Super Bowls in five years, becoming one of just nine teams to have won back-to-back championships in the process. They stand alone as the only one of those teams to reach a third-straight Super Bowl and the only team in NFL history to make five title games in six seasons. Mahomes, a three-time Super Bowl MVP, has accomplished all this before he’s even turned 30.
Kansas City’s last result will, of course, be the one that people remember most. But it feels incredibly harsh to knock the Chiefs for something nobody else has ever achieved. There is no peer to compare the Chiefs to in this regard. How can you prove a negative?
How would Tom Brady, Joe Montana or any other quarterback have fared in the same situation? We don’t know, because they never made three-straight Super Bowls. Would another team like the 2000s New England Patriots or the '70s Pittsburgh Steelers have put up a better fight? We’ll never know, because they weren’t able to accomplish what Kansas City just did.
In the end, it looked like Kansas City just ran out of gas and ran out of answers.
The Chiefs played a colossal 119 games over a six-season span. No other team has played more or had less time to rest and rebuild each offseason than Kansas City during that stretch.
Kansas City hasn’t had a top-20 draft pick since 2017 and has had to manage the largest contract in NFL history at the same time, but the team still managed to build a powerhouse anyway. After six years of greatness, one game at the end of an incredible run got away from the Chiefs.
It sucks, but it does not wipe out everything this team achieved along the way. And it won’t stop the Chiefs from accomplishing more greatness in the future.
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