Chris Berman chooses Super Bowl 2025 winner

Chris Berman returns to Super Bowl Lix between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles.

Berman has picked the winner in five of the past six years and has chosen the winner correctly in the past three Super Bowls and The exact edge of victory.

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Kansas City Chiefs (-1, 48.5) vs. Philadelphia Eagles
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Fifty-nine Super Bowls! Enough history. However, this game may have a richer history than most people.

It is well known that the Kansas City Chiefs are trying to be the first team to win three consecutive consecutive wins in the Super Bowl era. What might you have no Since they started playing in the NFL Championship in 1933, there has been only one team – Vince Lombardi's Green Bay Packers – winning three straight wins (1965 1967).

But when the pack won the Super Bowl game with three straight wins, they fell. The Miami Dolphins, Pittsburgh Steelers (twice), San Francisco 49ers, Dallas Cowboys, Denver Broncos and New England Patriots too. The chiefs have provided a lot of credit. They are the only ones trying to restore it to the Super Bowl’s three tops.

This is a side of the history of the Philadelphia Eagles. Saquon Barkley is the ninth player to run 2,000 yards in his ninth season. Of the other eight players, only Terrell Davis of the Broncos made it to the Super Bowl that season.

It's really a “super” Super Bowl. The Chief lost only one Real Since Christmas 2023, the competition. After all, they beat most of the Broncos starters in Week 18 of Week 18.

Some questions how They won this season. They won the toenails against Baltimore, which was a blocked shot at the end of the game against Denver, and within the last few seconds the Raiders were defeating Denver while winning the game with a win-win shot Try it, just to name the charger. But when you win 17 games in a row, it was the recent AFC championship game against Buffalo Bills, and those issues should have stopped a long time ago. This is not accidental.

The Hawks have only one loss since early October. Head coach Nick Sirianni has said many times: “We don't care how we win.” Again, victory is not always associated with style points. Most importantly, the least question mark of the two teams’ rosters entered the Super Bowl, and looking back, it’s no surprise. Another interesting note: These teams won the first two games of the season – the Chiefs in the opening game Thursday night and the Hawks in Brazil Friday night – now they are in the final game.

Two years ago they played in a fabulous Super Bowl LVII in Arizona, and I called me the “Baker in the Toaster” (I called Cardinals’s Home Stadium “Big Toaster”). Kansas City won 38-35 in the last few seconds, naturally scoring a score. I don't think the game will score that high. However, I hope both teams can score in the upper 20s.

What steps can we take from that game in two years? For the Hawks, it is obvious that Barkley is now the defender. The offensive line has undergone several changes – Jason Kelce is working for ESPN now – but they are still excellent. Tush push is still alive. Interestingly, the Eagles have changed the two coordinators twice Since then, Kellen Moore has called for the offensive and Vic Fangio has called for the defense. A quick look at that Super Bowl shows that QB Jalen Hurts played a great game that day, with seven hits Devonta Smith and six connections with AJ Brown and Dallas Goedert. They are still there. General Manager Howie Roseman deserves a huge honor to make a strong defense even stronger. His first-round picks from 2023, Jalen Carter and Nolan Smith Jr., have performed well, with last year’s top two draft picks, Quinny Mitchell ( Quinyon Mitchell and Cooper Dejean stood out in the defensive backcourt. He also switched to Zack Baun, adding him to an already top-notch unit. Results: The Hawks have made a turnover difference in just three playoff wins.

On another sideline, Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes have written their names into NFL legends and are one of the great coach/QB duo of all time . So did Te Travis Kelce, who played six receptions and touchdowns in Super Bowl LVII. Kelce received 97 passes in the 2024 regular season, which was a year of “fare” for him. In addition to Kelce, in the receiving department, the Chief adopted the “everyone eats” approach, mainly because of the summer injuries that forced Reid and Mahomes to make a big spell. Awe. The Chiefs are now as healthy as they were all season, which means Hollywood Brown is back to wide receivers and Isiah Pacheco is back (even Kareem Hunt ) May get more wins in this game). The biggest change is that on O-Line, Pro Bowl guard Joe Thuney has been tackled left and right. Obviously, this is good.

The Chiefs won the Super Bowl with Steve Spagnuolo's defense last season. This season followed a similar formula, like Chris Jones, Nick Bolton and Trent McDuffie gave KC a firm firmness at every level . Real Close Corner L'Arius Sneed went to Tennessee in the offseason, but Spagnuolo's timely blitz made miracles again. This was evident in the final minutes of the AFC Championship when McDuffie's blitz changed Josh Allen's fourth throw.

So…who wins on Sunday? The biggest showdown I'm going to watch is the Chiefs' defense that will lift Buckley away from another outstanding performance. Remember, he ran 205 yards against the Rams and over 100 yards in the Hawks' other two playoff wins. It's really fascinating because we haven't seen a season yet, like we've seen with Barkley and Derrick Henry in about a decade That said, Adrian Peterson was doing well for the Minnesota Vikings at the time. I'm sure the Spags haven't forgotten how to defend a great defender, it's just that we haven't seen it for a while, especially in the Super Bowl. For the Hawks, if Barkley runs, then say 115 yards, is that enough to pop everything else?

Then there is the ball carrier that very few people talk about, but one who continues to confuse against the defensive coordinator. His name is Patrick Mahomes. I call him “Electric Eel” because he will glide in the third game at the biggest moment in the game. His arms and ability to find Kells or the right recipient at the right time are still worth a look. I wonder if the Chiefs can pursue a three-game winning streak from start to finish throughout the season. If so, please understand that we may never see it again. I'm a fool in history – I majored in Brown – I certainly don't care to see it every now and then.

Kansas City 27, Philadelphia 24

P.S., maybe I'm also soft to three consecutive championships, which I did somehow in this column. If Swami could do it, I think the chief would do it too.