![]() The more mature you are, like the Bill Belichick’s of the world, he’s been there a few times, you know, and he’s lost a few games, but he obviously knew how to recover and get back there again.īlack quarterbacks make history for Super Bowl 57ĪLLIE: You can’t appreciate the highs without those lows. And the Super Bowl magnifies the meaning of those two different environments more than any other game you play. But the further you are away from the loss, I repeat myself, you recognize what you did and appreciate what you did to get there. It’s the most devastating loss if you don’t win it than any game we play all year. It’s the easiest game in the world to get ready to play emotionally, you know, because they play all season to be there and have the opportunity to play it. How big of a game is that? How difficult is it to rise to that occasion in the biggest game of the season?ĭICK: It’s not. Mahomes, Hurts understand significance of Super Bowl battleĪLLIE: In between the Eagles and Chiefs, you won that Super Bowl with the St Louis Rams. And he led us on to the world championship. Of course, we didn’t count on losing Trent Green with a knee injury, and we didn’t count on Kurt Warner being a great Hall of Fame player. Then the third year, we backed off just a little because I felt and my staff felt that we were where we needed to be. ![]() ![]() We used the same basic approach for the first two years. But there we had draft choices, free agency and all that kind of stuff that we didn’t have in Philadelphia. It takes the same thing to get there and lose a Super Bowl that it does to get there and win. very, very grateful for having had the opportunity to work with those guys for seven years. That really bothered me initially, but the further removed from the game, the more I recognized and appreciate those guys. We didn’t play well and game day, we got beat. There were about 11 or 12 guys that ended up being on the roster five years later that were on it when we took it over, that went to the Super Bowl. So we had to do it the old fashioned way, long practices and hard work and character kids. The Eagles were our biggest challenge because they hadn’t won in many years and they didn’t have first, second or third round picks for a few years there. DICK: Well, you know, I always I always think of it.
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