Why This Year’s Super Bowl Could Rewrite Everything You Thought About the Chiefs and Eagles
He escalated it, though. The Eagles of two years ago were an efficient running team but not all that explosive. Despite their best-in-class success rate, their 4.5 yards per designed run play were about league average the last time they made the Super Bowl.
During the 2024 regular season, their 4.8 yards per design run play ranked fourth, an even bigger step up from a below-average 4.1 yards in 2023, when they made the NFL playoffs but were bounced by Tampa Bay in the wild-card round.
Barkleyâs home run-hitting ability explains a lot of the difference. The Eagles had 38 runs of 15+ yards, leading everyone except Baltimore (47). Barkley was responsible for 25 of those carries, tying him with the Ravensâ Derrick Henry and Detroitâs Jahmyr Gibbs for the league lead. Hurts had 11 of them, leading all quarterbacks except for the Ravensâ Lamar Jackson. It helps to have a dominant offensive line, but it also helps to break through the second level with explosive runners, and Philadelphia has unlocked that trait in spades.
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