Super Bowl LIX is particularly painful for Dallas. Kansas City can tie the Cowboys with five Lombardi Trophies. Or the Eagles win another.

A little over a year ago, during the final week of January 2024, Eagles general manager Howie Roseman and head coach Nick Sirianni sat together on stage at the NovaCare Complex. It wasn’t just a painful occasion.

There was a time before everything was automated, when general managers still mapped out their models and moves using physical materials, when Howie Roseman arranged the personnel of the NFL’s top-four teams inside his office in an obsessive collage.

Howie Roseman’s journey to becoming one of the top executives in professional sports began as a unpaid summer intern with the Philadelphia Eagles in 2000. Then, after a disastrous 2020 season, Roseman rebuilt the roster again and Philadelphia reached the Super Bowl two years later only to lose to the Kansas City Chiefs 38-35.

There was Barkley's pricey addition, some low-cost, high-reward signings that hit, and a bonanza from recent drafts. It all added up to a return to the Super Bowl for Roseman and the Eagles.

That spring, Roseman drafted defensive tackle Jordan Davis in the first round, center Cam Jurgens in the second and linebacker Nakobe Dean in the third. That same weekend, Roseman traded for wide receiver A.J. Brown, to be followed in August with a trade for safety Chauncey Gardner-Johnson.

GM Howie Roseman, the constant in Philadelphia's recent success, has reached across sports to help keep his team at the top. Here's how.

A former head coach with decades of experience, Vic Fangio flipped the Philadelphia defense from weakness to strength with a no-nonsense edge and Super Bowl standards.