5 reasons Eagles can win the Super Bowl this year

3. Running game rebounds

As has been well-documented throughout football history, regardless of the era, balance is the key to success in this game. The offense complimenting the defense. There’s a reason that no player who has led the league in passing yards has been on the roster of the eventual Super Bowl champion the same season. One-man football simply doesn’t work.

On the way to a Super Bowl championship in 2017, the Philadelphia Eagles finished seventh in the league in total offense while only two clubs gained more yards per game on the ground. In the Super Bowl LII victory over the New England Patriots, Doug Pederson’s squad rolled up 164 yards in the 41-33 win. That Philadelphia championship team featured a three-headed monster in the backfield via LeGarrette Blount, Jay Ajayi and Corey Clement.

In 2018, only four NFL teams rushed for fewer yards than the Eagles. Blount had left for Detroit, Ajayi went down early in the year with a knee injury and the club would not only fail to run for 100 yards in seven of their 16 regular-season outings, the Birds rushed for a combined 91 yards in their two postseason outings.

Enter running back Jordan Howard, obtained via trade from the Chicago Bears. No longer a fit in Matt Nagy’s attack, he gives Pederson’s club a performer who has totaled at least 250 carries in each of his first three seasons. The club has ample depth with Clement, ageless Darren Sproles, Wendell Smallwood and 2019 second-round pick Miles Sanders. You can look for the Eagles to re-establish the ground game this year.

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