The Week 8 road game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Commanders is officially staying put on Sunday Night Football, despite all the chatter about a flex. Turns out, the NFL actually considered moving the Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Browns 1:00 PM game into that coveted SNF slot. But nope, according to the Inquirer’s Rob Tornoe, the league stuck with Eagles-Commanders. Seriously, you gotta wonder what they’re thinking.
Why This Is So Wild
Honestly, it’s a shocker that the league didn’t pull this NFC East battle out of primetime. The Eagles are in a rough patch, dropping four straight games and now sitting at a dismal 2-4. To make matters worse, they’ve lost their starting quarterback, Jalen Hurts, for the entire season. Then you look at the Commanders: they’re not exactly lighting the world on fire either, with a 1-4-1 record this season. Their QB, Jayden Daniels, hasn’t won a game in his last eight starts, going 0-7-1. This is not exactly screaming “marquee matchup” to anyone with eyeballs, is it? We’re all staying up late for *this*?
But Wait, There’s A Catch
Here’s the kicker though: for all their struggles, both the Eagles and Commanders are somehow still very much alive in their incredibly bad division. It’s a low bar, but it’s there. And if the Eagles can somehow pull off a big upset against the Dallas Cowboys in Week 7 (which is a huge “if,” considering they’re 4.5-point home underdogs), then a win against the Commanders in Landover, Maryland, would actually get them back to .500. So, there’s a *slight* chance this game could have some weird, bad-division-stakes kind of juice.
Let’s just hope the Eagles don’t make us all regret staying up late to watch them fumble around again. Their Week 7 showdown with the Cowboys is everything if they want to make this SNF game worth anybody’s time.
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Originally reported by Bleeding Green Nation.
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