One of the most watched sports events of the year is here again when the American football main series NFL final Super Bowl will be played early Monday morning in Finnish time.
Kansas City Chiefs, who won the final twice in a row, will face Philadelphia Eagles. The teams also met each other in the final of the season, with Chiefs a little 38-35.
This time, Super Bowl will be played in New Orleans, where it is organized for 11 times. The New Orleans at the same time touches Miami’s record in the number of Super Bowl hosting.
The head coach of the successful Finnish men’s Yankee Fitness Team Mikko Koilainen Its the most interesting points about the upcoming Super Bowl (Super Bowl Lix).
What’s up?
Kansas City Chiefs took the championship in 2023 and 2024. No team in NFL’s history has been able to win Super Bowl three times in a row. Now Chiefs has a great opportunity.
According to Koikkalainen, the advantage of Chiefs is only small.
– The fact that they have Patrick Mahomesand Andy Reid As a coach is the only reason that Chiefs will go to the final as a small advance favorite. However, Eagles is a better team in a way. The team is of higher quality, but they don’t have Mahomesia, says Koikainen.
Chiefs can already be spoken of as one of the all-time NFL dynasties. It has played five times in the final six seasons.
In the regular season, the team won 15 times and lost only twice. However, the regular season was not just for the team, as suggested from the winning statistics.
– However, the masters showed that in real games they can raise their own level. In the playoffs, the team has been convincing, says Koikalainen.
Eagles’ journey to Super Bowl has been similar to Chiefs. The team even drifted into a “crisis” early in the season.
– In the early part of the season, Eagles even had a small crisis on. The attack was stabbed and the defense was nowhere near the level of what it had been this for the rest of the season, says Koikalainen.
In the NFC Conference Final, the team broke Washington Commanders as many as 55-23.
– As a whole, the Eagles has finally been really tough.
Kansas City Chiefs
7x in Super Bowl
4 won
3 lost
Philadelphia Eagles
5x in Super Bowl
1 won
4 to lose
Mahomes’ magnitude
Patrick Mahomes, 29, is a player at the best of age. In the finals in New Orleans, the star player will already be chasing the fourth Super Bowl championship of his career and the fourth prize for the most valuable player.
Throughout his career, Mahomes have already thrown 5,577 yards in the playoffs. It is the seventh most in the history of the NFL as a whole.
Mahome has risen in speeches already Tom Brady47, to the level. Brady is considered to be the best player of all time and one of the all -time athletes.
As a quarterback as Mahomes, Brady won seven championships during her long career.
– Mahomes are currently on its way to all the best player of the ages, says Koikalainen.
According to Koikkalainen, Mahomes’ first years of playing in the NFL were full of spectacular and sparkling performance.
– The current Mahome is a cold -fitting player who is a lack of spectacularity by becoming a deadly powerful finishing player and a very different player. When the moment of the solution comes, he has always been at his best.
– What Mahomes has shown in his career so far is better than so far anyone has been able to do in his career.
Mahome is considered a player whose performance is not fluctuating. In tough places and playoffs, he is at his best.
Different head coaches
Kansas City Chiefs coach Andy Reid, 66, leads the NFL team Super Bowl for the sixth time during his career. What makes the final setting interesting is that Reid coached Philadelphia Eagles for as many as 13 seagues (1999-2012) before his Chiefs wash.
– Reid has had a really interesting career. When Reid started as a Philadelphia head coach, it was spoken that he could not make the best decisions in the solutions of big games.
– In the Eagles, there was no championship even though it was close all the time. Somewhere it was always missing, says Koikkalainen.
Reid is an expert according to the “wizard” of the attack game.
– He has been able to change where the league is going. Reid has been a couple of steps ahead of others.
Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni43, in turn, has previously worked as an assistant coach of the current opponent Chiefs. According to Koikkalainen, this is the opposite of Reid as a coach.
– Reid is really calm. Sirianni, on the other hand, is an emotional coach. I think the fans of the opponent team do not like Sirianni at all because he lives so much with emotion during the game.
Siriann’s responsibilities are also very different in Eagles compared to Reid in Chiefs.
– He was removed quite a lot of power when the team leadership informed him that the coordinators would change. Now he is more of a CEO in Eagles, who is responsible for a big picture but has no accurate gaming attachment, Koikalainen explains.
Mikko Koilainen, which (Reid/Sirianni) would you take your own coaching team?
– Thousand times a thousand Andy reed. Bill Belichick Afterwards, he probably does the hardest coaching work that anyone has ever done.
Belichick has the highest number of coaches in Super Bowl (6).
What is Super Bowl solve?
Koikalainen estimates that the championship will win a team with the ball last.
– Eagles does not want to end in a situation where Patrick Mahomes have a ball in his hands. Eagles must be able to control their own running game at the end if it wants to win.
– The way those defenses will play is, in a way, quite crucial. The Philadelphia attack is so running and effective. What is Chiefs’ answer to that? Do you go out of structurally to play the running game, that is, do you bring more runners than throwers?
What speaks?
In the NFL circles, it has been sensible that some of the followers of the sport are already slightly tired of Chiefs’ superior. Koikainen also thinks that.
– I bet that a pretty different game will be seen than two years ago in the finals when Chiefs and Eagles met.
The expert does not believe in the final final. In the 2023 Super Bowl, Chiefs took the championship with 38-35.
– If both teams go over 30 points, I would be really surprised, Koilainen adds.
Teams have not met for over a year. When Chiefs and Eagles last played in November 2023 was Eagles better with 21-17.
The NFL final Super Bowl will be played on Monday (10.2) Finnish time at. From 1.30.