Yahoo Sports NFL analyst Nate Tice and fantasy analyst Matt Harmon react following Philadelphia’s 40-22 win over Kansas City in Super Bowl LIX – including how the rookie’s interception return for a touchdown was a sample of the defense’s superb performance in the game.

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And then the Gene pick on was a classic Mahomes breaks contained, and he does, he does the thing that he can get away with, which is throwing late over the middle.

And Deene, so smart, goes, oh, I’ve seen this before.

There he is breaking right, bouncing back inside.

Just excellent stuff.

That’s, that’s opponent scouting.

And I almost want to go, hey, I spent so much time on Spas and Andy Reid being so good at opponent scouting.

What’s Vic Fangio do with a bye week?

Yeah, get his players freaking going.

That’s what he did, and I just gotta give credit to him all the way, because that’s what it looked like today.

That’s what exactly this performance looks like and credit to the Eagles, credit to that defense, cause that was one of the best performances I’ve seen in a long, long time.

Yeah, not only was it, you know, really schemed up and and just you’re so right to say like they were, they were on it.

They were just on everything that Kansas City wants to do.

The, you know, sometimes I think that there’s a, there’s like a section of people that get on.

Um, media members for maybe being overly kind of, um, effusive in the praise of how he rose and, well, he just takes like the consensus guys, he just takes the the consensus guys that are falling.

Well, yeah, you know, like, Nate, we talked about, you know, especially you, like I remember you coming on, uh, the fantasy show in the offseason talking about like Cooper De Jeanne is this guy that was just like, man, he fits this team, he can fit this team, that team, like there were so many teams that he made sense for in the late first round, he falls to the second round.

It’s just, yeah, let’s, let’s scoop.

That thing up.

I know we took a DB, uh, in the, and that’s what I, that’s what I’ve always really loved about this team’s, um, approach to roster construction is, yeah, we hit DB in, in the first round, right?

Like we took Quinon Mitchell, who probably also fell a little further than, than, than people may have projected, um, another guy that just, hey, that’s, that’s a good player that’s falling to the right spot.

Let’s take him up here.

Let’s, let’s take another one.

Cooper G was kind of a guy like he can play safety, he could play slot corner.

We’ll we’ll figure it out.

It doesn’t matter.

Like we, by the way.

Probably need help at both spots.

Like, we’ll, we’ll figure that out, no big deal.

Um, and he was, that, that play was so just, I mean, you’re, you’re looking at Mahomes scrambling out of the pocket, you can’t see the secondary what you’re, when you’re watching on broadcast.

You just think that’s gonna be, yeah, like you said, classic Mahomes, like booted out to the rights, you know, and, and he’s gonna hit some kind of dagger downfield.

Instead, the Jean’s just sitting there ready to pick it off.

That was just to me a very, uh, emblematic moment of, of just the roster construction and the team building this, this organization pulls off year by year.