The Eagles are now one of the NFL's blue blood franchises

The days of jokes about the Eagles not having any rings now feel like a distant memory.

It took the Eagles 52 years to win their first Super Bowl, but after throttling the Kansas City Chiefs 40-22 Sunday, the Eagles have now hoisted the Lombardi Trophy twice in an eight-year span. Over that period, they've won three NFC Championships. 

The Chiefs — who have appeared in five of the last six Super Bowls, winning three titles — remain the toast of the NFL. But the Eagles are No. 2. 

Really since the turn of the century, the Eagles have been one of the most consistently successful franchises in the NFL. But despite making five NFC Championship Game appearances and appearing in Super Bowl XXXIX in February of 2005, the Eagles never won a title with Andy Reid as their head coach. 

Now, they've got a pair in less than a decade, with no reason to believe they couldn't win another in the not-so-distant future. 

Granted, the Eagles have had this golden era in an atypical fashion. This isn't a situation where you have the constants at quarterback and head coach like Tom Brady and Bill Belichick, or Patrick Mahomes and the aforementioned Reid. 

The Eagles won Super Bowl LII with Nick Foles at quarterback, replacing the injured Carson Wentz. Doug Pederson was the head coach for the first title, and then was fired three years later when things got a little stale, despite a 42-37-1 record. 

Meanwhile, Jalen Hurts is on a fast track to usurp Donovan McNabb as the greatest quarterback in franchise history. Most evaluators wouldn't consider him one of the top five quarterbacks in the league, but he's now outplayed Mahomes twice in the Super Bowl. Nick Sirianni — who doesn't call plays on either side of the ball and at times has come off as very immature — isn't going to all of a sudden be mentioned in the same breath as Reid, Kyle Shanahan, Sean McVay, Jim Harbaugh, Sean Payton and some of the game's elite coaches. But it's hard to deny all the winning he's done. 

Jalen Hurts has now outplayed Patrick Mahomes twice in the Super Bowl @OnPattison https://t.co/demTQPyMTx

— Tim Kelly (@TimKellySports) February 10, 2025

The constant over this stretch is general manager Howie Roseman, who has rewarded owner Jeffrey Lurie's unwavering belief in him — which at times felt delusional but now looks genius — by putting together a career that has him likely headed for Canton. 

Famously – or infamously — Roseman and the Eagles really bungled the first round of the 2020 NFL Draft when they selected Jalen Reagor, a fringe NFL player, over superstar Justin Jefferson. Since then, though, Roseman has been on a tear. 

He fleeced the Indianapolis Colts for a first-round pick for Wentz after a disastrous 2020 season. 

He convinced the Tennessee Titans to trade him star receiver A.J. Brown for a pair of picks headlined by the 18th selection in the 2022 NFL Draft.

He signed Saquon Barkley to a three-year/$37.5 million free-agent deal that guaranteed him $26 million, only for Barkley to rush for 2,005 yards and win Offensive Player in his first year with the Eagles. 

He — with the help of defensive coordinator Vic Fangio — uncovered a diamond in the rough in Zack Baun, who was a First-Team All-Pro after moving from outside to inside linebacker and had a Super Bowl interception of Mahomes. 

And since the ill-fated Reagor selection, Roseman has drafted DeVonta Smith, Landon Dickerson, Milton Williams, Jordan Davis, Cam Jurgens, Nakobe Dean, Jalen Carter, Nolan Smith, Sydney Brown, Quinyon Mitchell, Cooper DeJean and Jaylx Hunt in one of the greatest four-year stretches of player evaluation in modern NFL history. 

COOPER DEJEAN LFGGGGG! 💪

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— On Pattison (@OnPattison) February 10, 2025

What's crazy, is Roseman is only 49. Hurts is only 26. Jurgens, Dean, Carter, Smith, Mitchell and DeJean are among those who are still on rookie contracts. And the Eagles aren't in a bad cap situation, as Over The Cap estimates that a team without many holes currently has $18 million to play with this offseason. 

The Eagles were long a franchise that people liked to poke fun at. Now, they're one of the NFL's blue bloods. And there's no reason to think they're going away any time soon.