Chiefs, Eagles hold pre-Super Bowl walkthroughs, Russell Wilson reacts to azcentral report

The Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles are ready for Super Bowl 57.

Both the AFC and NFC champions held their brief final walkthroughs at Sun Devil Stadium and the Arizona Cardinals' practice facility in Tempe on Saturday morning.

Eagles coach Nick Sirianni had his team go though 45 minutes of situational plays going through all three phases on offense, defense and special teams.

“We have a situational list that we keep adding to and we keep saying, ‘We need to walk through that, we need to walk through this,’” Sirianni said.

“Anything that can pop up — we’ve been doing these for 20 weeks and some of them haven’t popped up at all. Some of them have. It’s just studying the film, adding to your situations, trying to get better at it, trying to get better at the process and that’s why we have the plays in that we had today.”

Eagles quarterback Ian Book resembled Chiefs quarterback and NFL MVP Patrick Mahomes during their defensive reviews.

“He was good. I think on every play he just throws an interception to the other team,” Sirianni said jokingly.

After a long week full of media obligations and other festivities throughout the Phoenix area before Sunday's game, Sirianni emphasized they can't lose focus of the task at hand.

“Sometimes good coaching is just reminding them of things they already know,’ he said. “So just reminding, ‘Stay in routine. Stay in the moment. Don’t let distractions happen,’ and we’ve really been talking about that all year. But what really makes that possible is we have good leaders, we have guys that care about the team and stay in moment.”

At the Chiefs' walkthrough that lasted about a half hour, their coach Andy Reid and the team celebrated one of his longtime assistant coaches Barry Rubin. He's worked with Reid since they were on the Green Bay Packers coaching staff together in 1995.

“[He’s meant] a lot. Great guy,” Reid said. “He’s been with me, jeez, since Green Bay. I’ve known him forever. Isn’t that crazy when you think about all those years? He’s a little bit older than I am, he’s at that age. He’s got a nice place in Florida. But he means a lot to the guys. They love him.”

The Chiefs are playing in their third Super Bowl in four seasons, and are going for their second world title since 2020.

“I’m happy for the guys,” Reid said. “We’ll make it work with whatever we got but I mean, I’m happy for the guys to have this chance. It’s special. To play in the Super Bowl. It’s a great opportunity that doesn’t come around very often.”

Final injury reports

Both teams will be mostly at full strength, including Mahomes (ankle) who fully practiced this week and Saturday. Eagles wide receiver and return specialist Britain Covey (hamstring, QUESTIONABLE) is the only player listed between both team's injury reports.

Latest Super Bowl 57 odds

According to Tipico, Philadelphia is favored by 1.5 points, the over/under is 50.5, and the respective moneylines for Philadelphia and Kansas City are +106 and -122, respectively.

Wilson responds to The Republic's NFL player charities report

Denver Broncos quarterback Russell Wilson responded to this week’s report in The Arizona Republic that detailed how only a small percentage of the money donated to his foundation is reaching the intended charities.

Jason Wolf’s six-month investigation into NFL players and their nonprofit organizations found that the The Russell Wilson Foundation, which does business as the Why Not You Foundation, reported it spent almost $600,000 — or just 24.3 cents of every dollar — on charitable activities in 2020 and 2021 combined and nearly twice as much, $1.1 million, on salaries and employee benefits in that span, according to federal tax records.

Wilson did not respond to interview requests from the Republic, but his attorney/agent and marketing director, both members of the nonprofit’s board, spoke on Wilson’s behalf for the story. But on Saturday, in a video posted on Twitter, Wilson said his foundation “means the world to me,” and he felt he needed to say something. Wilson said his foundation has raised over $10 million "for pediatric cancer, and for education, and for hunger prevention and so much more. " He added that the money goes "directly to those in need."

He did not address any specifics in the Republic’s story, but ended the video by saying, "We're gonna keep learning, we're gonna keep growing, we're gonna keep getting better, but also, we're gonna keep serving."

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