Eagles vs. Chiefs live updates: Latest news, predictions and your views ahead of today’s Super Bowl rematch

Follow live coverage of a Super Bowl LIX rematch as the Kansas City Chiefs host the Philadelphia Eagles at Arrowhead Stadium.
Philadelphia opened the season with a win at home over Dallas, while Kansas City fell short against the Los Angeles Chargers in Brazil.
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Kickoff: 4:25 p.m. ET
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Chiefs announcer Dale Carter resigns, saying team crossed his ‘red line’
Kansas City Chiefs public address announcer Dale Carter will no longer be delivering his famous, “It’s. Third. Down,” call at Arrowhead Stadium, as Carter resigned this week after 16 years as one of the team’s in-stadium announcers.
In a Facebook post on Friday, Carter said the Chiefs asked him last year to change up his famous third-down call in the playoffs. This year, Carter said, the Chiefs told him that fellow stadium PA announcer Nate Herron would be taking over his third-down call on game days, crossing his “red line” and leading to his resignation.
“We appreciate Dale’s dedication and professionalism as the in-stadium voice at GEHA Field at Arrowhead over the past 16 seasons,” the Chiefs said in a statement Friday. “We understand and respect his decision and wish him all the best moving forward.”
Seven months after the Eagles upset the Kansas City Chiefs to hoist the Lombardi Trophy, the foes meet again.
Kansas City hosts Philadelphia on Sunday and in addition to seeking a degree of revenge, the Chiefs also seek their first win of the season. The Eagles, meanwhile, aim to improve to 2-0.
For the Chiefs, this meeting will offer an early test and indication of the effectiveness of general manager Brett Veach’s offseason efforts to correct his team’s greatest weakness: the offensive line. The Eagles dominated the line of scrimmage in the Super Bowl and thus dismantled Kansas City’s offense. Philadelphia recorded six sacks and 11 quarterback hits on Patrick Mahomes.
The Chiefs drafted Ohio State left tackle Josh Simmons in the first round and elevated second-year pro Kingsley Suamataia to the starting left guard position in hopes of providing Mahomes better blindside protection. Gone is Eagles pass rusher Josh Sweat, who recorded 2.5 sacks in the Super Bowl. But the Eagles still boast an imposing defensive front.
The Eagles largely appeared to be in midseason form last week as they delivered a balanced attack and a victory over Dallas to start the season 1-0. The Chiefs will try to better contain quarterback Jalen Hurts, who took home Super Bowl MVP honors after passing for 221 yards and two touchdowns and rushing for 72 yards and a touchdown.
Receiver Tyquan Thornton, whom the Chiefs plucked after the Patriots released him last year, has already stepped into a bigger role than most would’ve anticipated heading into the year. But is there more to unlock? Thornton, a 2022 second-round draft pick, posted the fastest time in the NFL for an offensive ball carrier last week, and he appears healthier now than he ever was with the Patriots.
The Chiefs have other receivers — like Hollywood Brown and JuJu Smith-Schuster — expected to take bigger roles with Rashee Rice and Hollywood Brown out today. No one has greater upside than Thornton, though, whose speed potential appears to be still somewhat untapped.
One of the Chiefs’ biggest disappointments from their opener was a complete lack of pass rush. Is that the start of a season-long trend, or just a one-game anomaly? I still think it’s more the latter, and we’ll get a good indication today when the Chiefs play in front of an amped-up Arrowhead Stadium.
The crowd noise should only help K.C.’s edge rushers, and I expect defensive ends George Karlaftis and Charles Omenihu to bounce back from Week 1 duds.
For a team that spent the summer insisting it had moved on from the Super Bowl, the second week of the season presented an unavoidable challenge for the Philadelphia Eagles: They had to watch the Super Bowl.
Nobody will feel sympathy for replaying one of the most dominant performances in NFL history. Despite the Eagles’ effort to not let the Lombardi Trophy cast a shadow on their 2025 season, the schedule-makers had different plans — setting Week 2 for Philadelphia to play the Kansas City Chiefs again.
“Obviously, anytime you watch a game that you have a good memory of, it can always bring – we’re human – it always brings that emotion back,” Eagles coach Nick Sirianni said. “But you’re watching it for a purpose, too. So, I think it’s possible to have the emotion, but it’s not like I’m jumping up and down when (DeVonta Smith) catches the touchdown. I’m not running down the sideline like I was in the game when Connor Barwin shoved me. And so it’s a different type of emotion, because I think you can have that and get the job done that you’re trying to do.”
Read more on the Eagles preparation for this Super Bowl rematch below.
Philadelphia Eagles tight end Dallas Goedert will miss today’s Super Bowl rematch against the Kansas City Chiefs because of a knee injury.
Goedert, who led the Eagles with seven catches in their season-opening win over the Cowboys, has not practiced this week. The Eagles will start Grant Calcaterra in Goedert’s place.
The injury leaves Jalen Hurts without one of his top pass-catching options, but it’s a familiar position for the Eagles. Goedert missed seven games last season and 15 games since the start of the 2022 season. The Eagles are 13-2 in those 15 games.
Read more on Goedert’s absence below.
Kansas City almost completely abandoned the run game while falling behind in its Week 1 loss to the Chargers. That might not be the best strategy today.
The Chiefs have some athletic offensive linemen who should fare well if the Chiefs decide to commit themselves to grinding things out, and Philadelphia’s defense showed some vulnerabilities in this area against the Cowboys last week.
Look for starting running back Isiah Pacheco to at least triple the number of rush attempts (five) he received in the opener against L.A.
Za’Darius Smith and Tank Bigsby, both high-profile additions to the Eagles in the past week, will make their debuts.
Smith, the veteran edge rusher, was signed one day after the Eagles’ season debut to bolster the pass rush. He has 69 career sacks, including nine last season between Cleveland and Detroit. Smith is likely to have a limited role in his first game and expects that to grow throughout the season. He took an incentive-laden contract and believes he can hit the sack numbers to secure a bigger payday.
Bigsby will be the Eagles’ kickoff returner and depth running back. He has six career kickoff returns, although the Eagles are intrigued about what he can add in that area.