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The Philadelphia Eagles put on a show during the NFL Playoffs last season and ended up destroying the Kansas City Chiefs in the Super Bowl. There were a lot of questions surrounding the team heading into the season because of the way they closed out the previous year, but they obviously answered all of them. A big reason for their success was Saquon Barkley, who came over from the New York Giants in the offseason.
Saquon Barkley is the best running back in the NFL, and he had a massive season for the Eagles last year. He brought the offense to a different level, and they probably don't have the season that they had without him. That team was special, and Barkley thinks that it was one of the best NFL teams of all-time.
“I firmly believe when you look at our team that we had last year — I know we're not looking too far into the past — but our team last year, I think we're a top-five team of all time,” Barkley said in a recent episode of Exciting Mics. “I tell my boys this all the time. We started off 2-2, and we lost to Washington. Jalen [Hurts] got hurt that game. But if you really look at the season outside the first four games, it was belt to ass. How dominant you guys were on defense and how dominant we were on offense and special teams, people don't realize how great of a team that actually was.”
The togetherness of that Eagles team was something that added another level to their game. Everybody just wanted to win, and it resulted in a dominant Super Bowl run.
“I think we all just bought in,” Barkley added. “You hear the outside noise and expectation. We didn't care how it looked. The only thing we cared about was winning football games. When you have the talent and skill that we have on our team mixed with the coaches, we all play together like how we played, teams really stood no chance. You've seen that in the playoffs. You've seen that in the Super Bowl. The score finished 40 to 20-something, but in reality, it wasn't even really a game.”
Saquon Barkley doesn't think that the Eagles get the praise that they deserve for that Super Bowl.
“I really think when we look back on it in 10 to 15 years, and we're all old and we're reflecting on our glory days – hopefully next year, the year we're in right now — but the year that we had last year, people don't give us enough credit,” he said.
That Eagles team was definitely a special one, and Saquon Barkley is a special player. They still have a lot of their top talent, and they will be looking for a repeat next season.
