If you think the Eagles are the NFL’s next dynasty, think again.

Yes, they were a dominant force last season. Yes, their recipe is one for sustainable success. Yes, Howie Roseman is one of the best front-office executives in football. Yes, no matter what it looks like, Jalen Hurts wins. Yes, Nick Sirianni is more of a proven commodity than ever before. And yes, not only did they beat the Chiefs – the league’s current dynasty – in Super Bowl 59, but they kicked Kansas City’s you know what.

But, no, the Eagles aren’t a dynasty in the making.

Think about what a dynasty is. It’s John Wooden’s UCLA Bruins between 1964 and 1975. It’s Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls of the 1990s. It’s the New York Yankees of the late 1990s and early 2000s. It’s the 20-year run of Bill Belichick and Tom Brady in New England. It’s the Nick Saban-led Alabama Crimson Tide. It’s what Andy Reid and Patrick Mahomes are doing in Kansas City. It’s The Big Red Machine, The Steel Curtain, The Showtime Lakers. It’s not the upcoming versions of the Philadelphia Eagles.

It takes a lot to become a dynasty. It definitely takes more than winning a Super Bowl.

After winning Super Bowl 52, people wondered if the Eagles were about to become the NFL’s next dynasty. Spoiler: It didn’t happen.

Carson Wentz never turned into what people thought he could. Doug Pederson was fired a few seasons later. “This team has the recipe and infrastructure,” people said about those Eagles. Wrong.

Those Eagles weren’t solely a one-hit wonder. There was some success after winning the franchise’s first Super Bowl. But it never turned into much, let alone a dynasty. Deep playoff runs ending with Lombardi Trophies weren’t “The New Norm,” which Pederson said would be the case. Things fizzled out.

It’s so hard to win. It’s even harder to do it over, and over, and over again. It’s what makes a dynasty so special. It’s what makes throwing that word – dynasty – around a careless act. It must be used with caution.

A dynasty can’t be predicted. One doesn’t blink, and there it is. It takes time, hard work, some luck, and a group so special it’s not even rare but an outlier.

The Eagles have a ton of work to do to make the 2025 version of the team one capable of repeating as Super Bowl champions – the first step of a long journey to even enter the realm of what a dynasty is.

The defense will need to be revamped, especially up front. The offense, with a new coordinator, will need to be reworked a bit to avoid staleness. Sirianni will have to find new ways to light a fire under his team, something he did so well in 2024. Hurts and his coaches will have to find a way to keep him toward the top of the league’s quarterback hierarchy.

More than that has to happen, too. A lot more.

Could the Eagles become the NFL’s next dynasty? Sure. Anything is possible. But the actual odds of that happening are so low, it’s unlikely. It’s really hard to do. Dynasties are often predicted but never materialized.

Parody is king in the NFL. The league is set up to avoid having the same team winning every year. The Chiefs have mostly beaten that system. But they’re the exception, not the rule.

This isn’t to say the Eagles won’t win more trophies in the years to come. But it’s to say this team is not going to run the league for the next decade, the true mark of a dynasty. It’s too hard. The group leading the way is a good one, maybe even great. It’s not an outlier, though. At least not right now. It has to prove it. That will take a lot of time.

The dust has more than settled on Super Bowl 59. This rebuttal to the Philadelphia Eagles dynasty claims and thought exercises that took place in the days after the Super Bowl may be late. But with the new league year beginning this week, it makes sense to let everyone know.

If you think the Eagles are the NFL’s next dynasty, think again.

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