Chris Berman picks the winner of the Super Bowl 2025

Chris Berman is back to choose the Super Bowl Lix between Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles.

Berman has chosen the winner of five of the last six years, and in each of the last three Super Bowls he has properly chosen the winner AND The exact victory margin.

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Kansas City Chiefs (-1, 48.5) against Philadelphia Eagles
Sunday 9th February, 18:30 ET, CAESARS SUPERDOME, NEW ORLEANS

Twenty -five Super Bowls! Lots of history. However, this game may have a richer story that goes into it than most.

Like most of you know, Kansas City Chiefs is trying to be the first team to win three just Lombardi trophies in the Super Bowl era. What you had to not Knowing is that since they started playing the NFL Championship Games in 1933, only one team – Vince Lombardis Green Bay Packers – has won three equal championships (1965 to 1967).

However, when it was time for the package to win three just super bowls, they came short. Like Miami Dolphins, Pittsburgh Steelers (twice), San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys, Denver Broncos and New England Patriots. Give chiefs lots of credit already. They are the only ones trying on three peats that returned to the Super Bowl.

Here is the Philadelphia Eagles’ side of the story. Saquon Barkley is the ninth player who rushes in 2,000 meters in a single season. Of the other eight players to do so, only Terrell Davis from Broncos in 1998 reached the Super Bowl that season.

This is really a “super” Super Bowl. Chiefs have lost only one genuine Played since Christmas Day in 2023. After all, it sat most of their starters in the week 18 loss to broncos.

Some questions how They won this season. They pulled out wins with a toenail against Baltimore, a blocked field goal at the end of the game against Denver, a Raiders fumble in the last seconds and a doink on a game -winning field goal attempt that Chargers face, just to name a few. But once you’ve won 17 just one-score games, most recently AFC Championship game against Buffalo Bills, these questions should have stopped long ago. It’s not an accident.

Not to be surpassed, Eagles has only a loss since the beginning of October. Head coach Nick Sirianni has said several times, “We don’t care how we win.” Again, winnings are not always associated with style points. The bottom line is the two teams with the fewest questions about their list of it for the Super Bowl, and when you look back, it is not surprising. Another interesting note: These teams won the first two games of the season – Chiefs in the opener Thursday night and Eagles Friday night in Brazil – and now they play in the last.

Two years ago, they played in a fabulous Super Bowl Lvii in Arizona, a game I called “The Roaster in the toaster” (I call Cardinals’ Home Stadium “The Big Toaster”). Kansas City won 38-35 in the final seconds, of course with a score. I don’t think this game will be just as high scoring. However, I expect both teams to score near the top 20s.

What can we take from that game two years later? For Eagles, Barkley is obviously now running back. The offensive line has undergone a few changes – Jason Kelce is now working for ESPN – but they are still excellent. Tush -push is alive and good. Interestingly enough Eagles have changed both coordinators twice Since then, with Kellen Moore, who calls the violation and Vic Fangio, who call the defense. A quick look back at the Super Bowl shows that QB Jalen hurt, playing brilliantly that day, Devonta Smith hit seven times and connected with AJ Brown and Dallas Goedert six times each. They are all there still. General Manager Howie Roseman deserves huge cudos to make a strong defense even stronger and younger. His choice of first round from 2023, Jalen Carter and Nolan Smith Jr., have excelled in front, and the top two elections last year, Quinyon Mitchell and Cooper Dejean, have stood out in the defensive back field. He also traded for Zack Baun and added him to an already first -class device. The result: Eagles are plus-10 in revenue differential in their three playoff victories alone.

On the other sidelines, Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes have already written their names for NFL -Lore as one of the great coaches/QB duo over time. Then also has Te Travis Kelce, who had six receptions and a touchdown in the Super Bowl LVII. Kelce caught 97 passports during the regular season 2024, an “off” year for him. In the receiving department, apart from Kelce, the managers have taken an “all eating” approach, mainly due to injuries as far back as summer, forcing Reid and Mahomes to AD-Lib quite a bit. Chiefs now are as healthy as they have been all season, which means Hollywood Brown is back on a broad recipient and Isiah Pacheco is back running back (though Kareem Hunt may get more carriers in this game). The biggest change has been on O-Line, with Pro Bowl-Guard Joe Thuney playing the left tackle down the stretch out of necessity. Obviously, it’s been fine.

Last season, Chiefs won the Super Bowl at the strength of Steve Spagnuolo’s defense. This season has followed a similar formula as Chris Jones, Nick Bolton and Trent McDuffie give KC a stalwart at all levels. Real closure corner L’Arius Sneed went to Tennessee during the peak season, but Spagnuolo’s timely flashes have once again made wonders. That was clear in the final minutes of the AFC championship games against the bills as McDuffies Blitz changed Josh Allen’s fourth-down threshold, as did a similar McDuffie Blitz in the final minut’s regulation in last year’s Super Bowl affected Brock Purdy’s third-down pass.

So … who wins on Sunday? The biggest matchup I want to look at is what Chiefs’ defense will do to keep Barkley from another prominent performance. Remember, he ran in 205 meters against Rams and over 100 in Eagles’ other two playoff winner. This is so exciting because we haven’t seen a season for running back that we saw with Barkley and Derrick Henry at about a decade where Adrian Peterson drove this strong for Minnesota Vikings. I’m sure spags didn’t forget how to defend big running back, it’s just that we haven’t seen this for a while, especially in the Super Bowl. For Eagles, if Barkley runs after, let’s just say 115 yards, will it be enough to jump everything else?

Then there is the ball that very few people talk about, but one who continues to confuse conflicting defensive coordinators. His name is Patrick Mahomes. I call him the “electric eel” because he wants to slip for an important third-down race in the greatest moments of the game. His arm and his ability to find kelce or the right recipient at the right time remain something to see. I have been wondering all season whether Chiefs could carry their search for three straight Super Bowl titles from start to finish. In that case, you must understand that we may never see this again. I am a sucker for history – I have a major in it on Brown – and I certainly don’t mind seeing it every now and then.

Kansas City 27, Philadelphia 24

PS I may also be a softie for a three-peat that I have somehow done in this pillar. If Swami can do that, I figured Chiefs can too.