The Birds didn’t come to the Super Bowl this year, yet their fingerprints are all around the two groups that did.
Exactly 18 players, mentors, scouts and front office executives who invested energy with the Birds will be in Las Vegas for Super Bowl LVIII seven days from Sunday.
They range from practice squad members to future Hall of Famers. Yet, they’ve all got Philadelphia Falcons on their resumes.
Let’s check it out!
49ers
Javon Hargrave: Hargrave signed a four-year, $84 million contract with the 49ers after three years and 23 sacks with the Eagles. In his first year in San Francisco, he had 7.0 sacks. Hargrave presently has 44 ½ sacks, fifth most among dynamic inside linemen. Hargrave made his first Pro Bowl with the Eagles in 2021, and he made his second with the Niners this year.
Harper, Matthew: Harper began his coaching career in Eugene under Chip Kelly, who Harper played for at Oregon. Harper joined Kelly when he was hired here, and during Kelly’s three years here, he worked as an assistant special teams coach and then as an assistant defensive backs coach. Harper was one of nine Kelly colleagues Doug Pederson kept and he worked with both extraordinary groups and wide recipients under Pederson, winning a Super Bowl ring in 2017. Harper has been the 49ers’ associate unique groups mentor starting around 2021.
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T.Y. McGill: The veteran defensive tackle, now in his ninth season, has been let go 16 times by the Seahawks, Colts, Browns, Chiefs, Chargers, Eagles, Commanders, Saints, Vikings, and 49ers. However, he continues to play. McGill had two separate spells with the Hawks in 2018 and 2020, playing in nine games, recording a portion of a sack with two handles for misfortune and three QB hits. McGill played in two games with the 49ers this year.
Matt Pryor: The Falcons’ sixth round draft pick in 2018, Pryor enjoyed three years with the Hawks, beginning 10 games, then 2021 and 2022 with the Foals, beginning 14 games. He marked for the current year with the 49ers and played in 15 games yet just 42 snaps on offense spread out more than six games, for the most part victory wins.
Darryl Tapp: In his 12-year NFL career, Tapp played for six teams, including the Eagles from 2010 to 2012. As an edge rusher, he started three games in 39 games. He had 29.0 sacks in his career and six in three seasons here. Tapp resigned after the 2017 season and spent a year each at Focal Michigan, Vanderbilt and his place of graduation, Virginia Tech, prior to joining Mike Shanahan’s training staff as colleague protective line mentor. In 2013, Tapp and Shanahan were together in Washington, where Shanahan was the offensive coordinator for his father, Mike, and Tapp was a backup edge.
Bosses
Mike Bradway: Burned through 10 years in different jobs in the Hawks’ exploring office from 2008 through 2017 working under Howie Roseman and current Bosses GM Brett Veach. When he was recruited away by the Bosses after the Birds won the Super Bowl, Bradway had climbed to the job of associate overseer of school exploring. It was Bradway who was credited by Joe Douglas for finding Dallas Goedert at South Dakota State.
Rick Burkholder: Since 2013, Burkholder has served as the Chiefs’ head trainer and vice president of sports medicine and performance. He has been with Andy Reid for 25 years, the first 14 of which were spent as the Eagles’ trainer.
Mark Donovan: Donovan, a quarterback who played for North Allegheny High School and Brown University as well as the Giants’ training camp quarterback, was the Eagles’ senior vice president of operations from 2003 to 2009 before joining the Chiefs as their chief operating officer and team president since 2011.
Ken Flajole: Veteran mentor with almost 50 years of involvement, Flajole was the Birds’ linebackers mentor each of the five years under Doug Pederson. Before working with Chiefs defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo again in Kansas City in 2021, Flajole coached the Rams from 2009 to 2011 and the Saints in 2012.
Corey Matthaei: Matthaei started his instructing vocation as an instructional course understudy with the Falcons at Lehigh in the mid year of 2006 and climbed to training right hand under Reid in 2008 and afterward partner to the lead trainer in 2010. At the point when Reid fabricated his most memorable Bosses staff in 2013, he recruited Matthaei as a hostile quality control mentor and afterward elevated him to colleague quarterbacks mentor in 2015. He’s been right hand hostile line mentor starting around 2018.
Tom Melvin: He has coached Travis Kelce, Chad Lewis, and about 100 tight ends between them. Melvin has worked as Reid’s tight ends coach for the Eagles and Chiefs for 25 years. Yet, their instructing relationship really returns to 1984 and 1985 on the San Francisco State staff and 1986 at Northern Arizona. So Melvin and Reid started training together almost quite a while back.
Nagy, Matt: As Delaware’s quarterback in the last part of the 1990s, one of Nagy’s number one targets was wide recipient Brett Veach, presently the Bosses’ GM. After graduating from college, Nagy joined Reid’s staff in 2008 as an intern and began his coaching career with a number of Arena League teams. At the point when the Birds were falling short on QBs in 2009 instructional course, the Falcons attempted to sign Nagy as a player, however since he was still under agreement with the Field Association, the NFL nixed the arrangement. He continued working for Reid as a quality control coach and a coaches’ assistant until 2012. With the Chiefs in 2013, he became Reid’s first quarterbacks coach, and in 2016 and 2017, he became Reid’s offensive coordinator. Subsequent to burning through four years as Bears lead trainer – he was the horrible mentor in the Twofold Doink game – he got back to the Bosses, first as quarterbacks mentor last year and hostile facilitator this year.
Todd Pinkston: The Hawks’ second round pick in 2000, Pinkston got 184 passes for 2,816 yards and 14 TDs in five years with the Falcons before an Achilles injury experienced in 2005 instructional course finished his vocation not long after his 27th birthday celebration. From 2001 through 2004, his eight gets of 50 yards or more were seventh most in the NFL. This is Pinkston’s first year as a full-time NFL assistant coach, and he is Reid’s running backs coach. Pinkston began his coaching career as a coaching intern with the Eagles in 2009.
Reid, Andy: Big Red is the fourth coach after Bill Belichick, Don Shula, and Tom Landry to lead at least five teams to the Super Bowl. With 258 victories, Reid now ranks fourth in NFL history, behind only Belichick in playoff victories. On Sunday, he’ll attempt to join Belichick, Hurl Noll, Joe Gibbs and Bill Walsh as the fifth mentor to win three Super Dishes. Reid has now been to 11 gathering title games – five with the Birds and six with the Bosses. His groups have arrived at the end of the season games in 19 of his 25 years as a lead trainer and he’s had just three losing seasons in his vocation (1999, 2005, 2012) – none around the same time.
Spagnuolo, Steve: Spags was a cautious partner on Reid’s underlying Hawks staff in 1999, one of nine future NFL lead trainers with the Falcons that year – Pat Shurmur, John Harbaugh, Ron Rivera, Sean McDermott, Brad Childress, Leslie Frazier and David Culley were colleague mentors, and Doug Pederson was on the dynamic program. Long-lasting NFL associate mentors Eric Bieniemy, Al Harris, Mike Caldwell and Duce Staley were additionally on the program. Spags coached the Eagles’ linebackers and secondary for eight years before taking over as defensive coordinator for the Giants in 2007 and becoming head coach of the Rams in 2009. He first took over as Reid’s defensive coordinator in 2019, following stints with the Giants, Saints, Rams, and Ravens.
Tega Wanogho, Prince: The Falcons’ sixth round pick in 2020, the hostile tackle played in only one game for the Hawks – a misfortune to Washington at the Linc on the last day of the 2020 season. The Bosses marked him before the 2021 season, and he’s played in 22 games throughout the course of recent years yet only two this year. The Bosses initiated Tega Wanogho from Harmed Hold recently.
Dave Toub: Despite being selected in the 9th round by the Eagles in 1985, Toub never played in the NFL. He started his training vocation at UTEP during the 1980s and in 1987 both he and Reid were on Sway Stull’s Excavators staff. They trained together again at Missouri and in 2001 Reid employed Toub as Harbaugh’s collaborator in the exceptional groups staff. Toub worked for the Bears from 2004 to 2012 under Lovie Smith. When Smith and Reid were both fired after the 2012 season, Reid took over in K.C. and hired Toub, first as a special teams coach and now as an assistant head coach.
Brett Veach: Veach joined the Eagles in 2004 as an intern before becoming a coaches’ assistant in 2010. In 2010, Veach moved over to scouting under Roseman. He moved to Kansas City with Reid in 2013 and climbed from faculty examiner in 2013 and 2014 to co-overseer of player work force in 2015 and 2016 and senior supervisor beginning around 2017. Veach is generally attributed for encouraging Reid to draft Patrick Mahomes as soon as Mahomes’ first year at Texas Tech – the fall of 2014. After three years, the Bosses drafted Mahomes.
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