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The real Super Bowl MVP for the Eagles? How about the defensive line that pummeled Patrick Mahomes

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NEW ORLEANS — Turn into the right corridor on the lowest floor of the Superdome, follow the heavy bass music thumping in the background and when the cigar smoke is at its thickest, legends say the Philadelphia Eagles players are still celebrating in the locker room.

There was one Eagle whose spirit would’ve been enough to keep a thousand parties alive for the rest of time: second-year pass rusher Nolan Smith. He spent the majority of his postgame in a similar manner he did during the Eagles’ 40-22 beatdown of the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LIX — hyping up his fellow defensive linemen who owned their corner of the locker room.