Super Bowl Advice for Both Teams: Don't Let Mahomes Beat You

It is a frosty day today and I was a bit chilled by some Super Bowl cogitations.

What is your bias going in? I want the Eagles to win because of the beneficial residuals for the NFC East. Preferably, the division is stocked with winning teams from top to bottom with each particular team a threat to take it all. But picking one of these teams is problematic. 

They love their defense in Philly but they can be run on. The Chiefs love their defense but they don't matchup well with the Eagles in the Red Zone.

Here was a perhaps contraversial thought: Kansas City should run the football and Philadelphia should make Patrick Mahomes beat them.

To be brutally honest, I am disturbed by high ankle sprains. Especially against pass rushing virtuosos. It is a bad combination for Mahomes. The Eagles say they are focusing on getting him on the ground. The Chiefs don't want to have that high ankle sprain transform into a break. I saw Mahomes in the Bengals game. He looked OK. But what was he doing to himself for that to happen?

Fortunately for the Chiefs, I think they can beat the Eagles running the football. They have already done that. They slashed the Eagles in the running game last year. 

If the Eagles are to be Champions they will have to prove they can stop the run. If they can't, all Mahomes has to do is the short game. If the game turns into a trial balloon on what an older Patrick Mahomes pocket-passer might look like, the Eagles rush will get home. 

Now I'm going to mention something that haunts old school Skins fans: The Body Bag Game. Like Kyle Shanahan, Joe Jackson Gibbs got torn down to a running back running the offense. Washington lost the game, but the legendary B-Mitch manned the hell up and drove the offense for a touchdown.

This Eagles team is different attitudinally to that brash Buddy Ryan team that had its narcissistic supply drained in the playoffs by the same Washington team they had earlier put into the hospital. The Eagles today are smarter.

It is all strengths and weaknesses. Get strong in your weak area, the Tony Robbinses of the world all say. I know the Chiefs love the passing game truly, madly, deeply, but they have to run the ball and the Eagles have to stop it. The Chiefs have to stop the Birds in the Red Zone.

What this means is both Super Bowl teams should carry three Quarterbacks.