January 29, 2025   3 MIN READ

Two-Year Turnaround

ITB: Eagles and Chiefs Made Major Changes Since '22

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The Philadelphia Eagles and Kansas City Chiefs both look a lot different from when they met in the Super Bowl just two years ago.

On the latest episode of “Inside The Birds,” Adam Caplan and Geoff Mosher dove into the biggest changes each team made since 2022 ahead of their Super Bowl rematch and provided an update on a major injury.

Quinyon Mitchell

GETTY IMAGES: Philadelphia Eagles CB Quinyon Mitchell has helped the secondary become elite again.

Nick Sirianni

Adam Caplan: “Being the CEO Head Coach, it gives you more time to start looking at other positions, other side of the football. It’s not his scheme anymore, it’s Kellen Moore’s. He has more time to really put his energy elsewhere and it clearly shows.” 

Eagles Secondary

Geoff Mosher: “The backend of this Eagles defense is far and away better [than 2022]. The only similarities are (Darius) Slay and C.J. Gardner-Johnson. When you have Cooper DeJean and Quinyon Mitchell over Avonte Maddox and James Bradberry, you are far more dynamic.”

Chiefs Receivers

Mosher: “I think people forget that the Chiefs offense two years ago was even slower and far less dynamic than it is now. People forget that the Chiefs’ starting receivers in that game were Skyy Moore, Kadarius Toney, and Marquez Valdez-Scantling.”

Caplan: “They have way more speed than they have two years ago, it’s not even close. But they are still a dink and dunk, short to intermediate passing offense…Xavier Worthy has been used differently, not a lot of shot plays…Hollywood Brown is finally healthy…then you have the (Travis) Kelce factor, who two years ago did score against the Eagles.”

Brandon Graham

Caplan: “He tore his left triceps against the Rams on Nov. 24. He had surgery on Dec. 3…Here’s the problem: you have to grab, hold, clutch, and punch. He’s two months out from surgery and we have no idea whether he has been able to lift. What it sounds like is going to happen is they are going to designate him for return, see what happens whenever they start practicing, and see what they can or can’t do. It’s still a longshot.”

Mosher: “If he could do it, he’d be Superman. If he can do it and wants to do it and the organization wants it, they come across a roster construction issue.”

– Benjamin Paul is a staff writer for InsideTheBirds.com.

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