Charles Omenihu says the 49ers team he played on was better than the Eagles team, and he did not try to soften the point. Omenihu said that 49ers Super Bowl team was better than the Eagles team, adding that he thought the 49ers would “dog ’em” and expected the game to turn into a slugfest that San Francisco would finish stronger.
He also said the matchup favored his side because the offensive line was banged up, a view that sounded even sharper because of where he was standing when he made it. Omenihu played for the 49ers before he went to the Chiefs, and the comments were framed as biased because most of those players were his former teammates.
The weight behind the take is easy to see in the numbers attached to Omenihu’s own run-ins with Philadelphia. In the 2023 NFC Championship game, he had 2 tackles and 1 QB hit. In the 2025 Super Bowl, he finished with 3 tackles and 1 TFL. He was on the field for both defeats, and the Eagles beat him twice.
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That is what gives the comments their edge on 4/10/26, when the Eagles news page was dated and the quote set landed with the kind of certainty that invites a response. This was not a detached ranking from someone who watched from afar. It came from a player whose recent history with Philadelphia ended in losses and whose past in San Francisco shapes how the comparison reads now.
The tension is in the contradiction between memory and record. Omenihu’s certainty about the 49ers being the better team sits beside the fact that the Eagles handled his teams when it counted most. That gap makes the quote less like a neutral verdict and more like a veteran defending the group he came from.
What follows is the part that matters for readers tracking Eagles news: the comment has already set up another round of debate over which roster was actually stronger, but Omenihu’s own postseason track record against Philadelphia is the piece that sticks.
