{"id":297302,"date":"2025-08-18T06:12:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/297302\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T06:12:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T06:12:18","slug":"eagles-dominate-commanders-in-nfc-championship-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/297302\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles dominate Commanders in NFC championship game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/eagles-vs-commanders-nfc-championship-game-nfl\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Eagles are headed back to the Super Bowl<\/a>\u00a0for the second time in three seasons.<\/p>\n<p>The Birds are headed to &#8220;The Big Easy&#8221; after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/live-updates\/eagles-commanders-nfc-championship-game-highlights\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">beating the Washington Commanders, 55-23,<\/a>\u00a0Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field in the NFC championship game. The Eagles will face the winner of the Buffalo Bills-Kansas City Chiefs AFC championship game.<\/p>\n<p>Jalen Hurts quieted any fears about his knee injury, turning in his best game in weeks. Hurts finished with four total touchdowns, scoring on two tush pushes, a 9-yard TD rush and hooking up with A.J. Brown for a passing touchdown. Hurts was 19 of 27 passing with 240 yards.<\/p>\n<p>Saquon Barkley had another 100-plus-yard game for the Eagles. Barkley,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/ap-award-finalists-eagles-saquon-barkley-mvp\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">an MVP finalist<\/a>, finished with 114 yards on 13 carries. He scored touchdowns on his first two touches, including a 60-yard TD run on the Eagles&#8217; first drive, and added a third in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Hurts and Barkley combined for seven touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia forced four turnovers and sacked Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels two times.<\/p>\n<p>See all the highlights from the NFC title game below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia\u00a0Eagles are headed back to the Super Bowl\u00a0for the second time in three seasons. The Birds are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[427,7,112,6,84,5763,242,109,855,111,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-297302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-commanders","8":"tag-commanders","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfc-championship","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-nfl-playoffs","13":"tag-pennsylvania","14":"tag-philadelphia","15":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","16":"tag-washington","17":"tag-washington-commanders","18":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115048293728293033","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}