Inbox: That’s their mandate

I read an article that the Jags owner had a nice “flex” showing up to NO in his $375 million yacht. Is Mike “flexing” when he didn’t remember the Sharpe eye poke game because he was studying in Spain?

I was a college student buying 95-cent Heinekens at a corner bar in Seville at age 20, no questions asked. I thought I had the world licked.

Apparently the Eagles didn’t hear about the Chiefs’ dynasty, or perhaps they heard about it a bit too much.

Maybe in the final analysis, the worst thing for the Chiefs was to be facing the team it had barely beaten in the Super Bowl two years prior with a much better team. In the Eagles’ mind, KC shouldn’t have had the original repeat let alone a shot at the three-peat.

Was this Philadelphia long snapper named Lovato once a member of the Green Bay Packers?

Yes, Rick Lovato was signed by the Packers late in the 2015 season – while working at a family sandwich shop in Jersey – when Brett Goode went down with a knee injury. Then Goode won his job back by the end of training camp in 2016, so the Packers let Lovato go. After a very brief stop in Washington, Lovato landed in Philly in late 2016 once again as an injury replacement, won the job the following summer, and has been with the Eagles ever since, snapping in three Super Bowls now.

Mike, I would like to offer my humble surrebuttal about the Rams’ defense. Case in point, this from the Pro Football Network: “Los Angeles generated 16 sacks this postseason, the most in a two-game span in NFL playoff history. This came out of nowhere for a team that had 38 sacks in the regular season, which tied for 21st. The Rams had an absurd 54.5% non-blitz pressure rate this postseason, the highest in a single playoffs since PFF began tracking pressures in 2019.” KC would’ve had a tough time.

Oh, I’m sure they would’ve struggled against LA’s hot defensive front. That group was turning it up and I won’t dismiss that. But that same LA defense gave up TD runs of 44 (to Hurts), 62 and 78 yards (to Barkley). They got gashed, and KC would’ve had chances to gash them too. I don’t have any specific stats in front of me, but the Eagles just didn’t give up explosive plays in the playoffs, until very late Sunday night with the game decided. Philly won with a total defensive effort, spearheaded by the front.

Now that the Super Bowl is over, we get to move on to the next fresh…