Marquis Flowers wants all of the attention from Philadelphia Eagles fans

The Philadelphia Eagles are Super Bowl champions.

Now granted, it took the now-88 years old franchise 52 years to accomplish the feat, as the Super Bowl didn’t come into being until 1960, but hey, when you consider that 12 teams across the league haven’t held up the Lombardi Trophy, I think I speak for the majority of the City of Brotherly Love when I say hey, a win’s a win.

And yet, some people aren’t happy to see Philly succeed.

That’s right, despite the vast majority of that storied roster, plus the entire coaching staff minus Jeff Stoutland being gone, the occasional detractor will try to tear down what Howie Roseman built a half-decade ago, even though he’s done a pretty good job of doing that himself.

The lastest would-be detractor taking aim at the Philadelphia Eagles? That’d be linebacker Marquis Flowers, who was on the wrong side of that 41-33 final score.

But who, you may ask, is Marquis Flowers? Well, let’s find out.

Flowers to you, Philadelphia Eagles fans.

Marquis Flowers came into the NFL as a seventh-round pick out of Arizona.

Lauded for the 4.51 40 yard dash he ran at his Pro Day in Tucson, Flowers joined a linebacking corps headlined by Emmanuel Lamur, Rey Maualuga, and Vincent Rey and was mostly deployed on special teams, playing 310 snaps for Darrin Simmons’ unit versus 70 on defense.

After spending his next two seasons in Cincinnati as a bottom-of-the-roster performer – including an entire 2015 season spent on IR – Flowers was traded to New England for a seventh-round pick in August of 2017, in the hopes of fortifying Bill Belichick‘s linebacking corps.

All in all, things worked out pretty well for Flowers in New Orleans, as he played a career-high 283 defensive snaps for the Patriots while continuing to be an ace for future New York Giants head coach Joe Judge‘s special teams unit.

2017 was also a marquee year for Flowers because it marked his first, and to this point, only appearance in the Super Bowl, where he faced off against a white-hot Philadelphia Eagles team riding high off of an underdog’s mentality and a galvanizing backup quarterback by the name of Nick Foles. In that storied game, Flowers was on the field for 18 defensive snaps, including a touchdown catch by Corey Clement that will lie on forever in the hearts of fans the world over.

Did Flowers impact that particular play? No, in fact, he was in coverage on Clement for that particular throw and watched helplessly as the Eagles went up 29-19 at the 7:18 mark of the third quarter.

Unfortunate? For Flowers, surely, but according to him, the play was no bueno. That’s right, for one reason or another, the 29-year-old opted to take to Twitter to call the play an officiating error, a utilization of a future rule that wasn’t yet in place, and effectively called the validity of Philly’s lone Lombardi into question.

The good news? It doesn’t particularly matter what Flowers thinks, as no whining a near-half-decade later is going to change the call, its outcome, or the final score of Philly’s premier win.

*Insert Kylo Ren shrug here*

So, just for the sake of information, whatever happened to Flowers after that poor coverage play? Well, he was signed to a one-year extension with the Patriots but was ultimately released at the end of the summer. From there, he signed with the Detroit Lions, was released by the Detroit Lions, and was ultimately signed by Washington’s then-named football team, where he played 84 snaps split between defense and special teams.

And from there? Nothing. Flowers hasn’t been signed to an NFL team since being waived by Washington in the summer of 2019 and might just be done with his professional football playing career. While he was selected in the 2020 XFL Draft by the Dallas Renegades, he opted against playing for the now semi-defunct league.

So what’s the takeaway from this situation? Well, if you want to draw serious social media interaction from Philadelphia Eagles fans, bring up Super Bowl LII and call the win illegitimate. You might not like the responses, but hey, if your goal is to get people talking, it can certainly work, as Marquis Flowers will surely tell you.