{"id":495405,"date":"2025-11-02T22:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T22:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/495405\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T22:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T22:51:09","slug":"eagles-have-best-record-in-the-nfc-after-panthers-upset-the-packers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/495405\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles have best record in the NFC after Panthers upset the Packers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Philadelphia Eagles have moved into the No. 1 seed in the NFC after the Packers 16-13 loss to the Panthers in Week 9<\/p>\n<p>The <a data-autotag=\"c1b3a094-e294-4a77-b1b2-dbdbd5bfa2c5\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/philadelphia-eagles\/354\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Eagles<\/a> and Packers are set for a gigantic Week 10 matchup, and Green Bay got caught clearly looking ahead, as Jordan Love and company suffered a 16-13 loss to the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/carolina-panthers\/364\" data-autotag=\"8afac4d1-41b4-4302-b154-b45f5b48a0d2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Panthers<\/a> on a walkoff field goal. Star tight end Tucker <a href=\"https:\/\/theeagleswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/eagles\/2025\/11\/02\/tucker-kraft-knee-injury-packers-panthers-eagles-week-10\/87053640007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kraft was carted off with a serious-looking knee injury.<\/a> Kraft went down while blocking on a Josh Jacobs running play.<\/p>\n<p>Kraft had 20 yards on two catches before departing the contest.<\/p>\n<p>One of the top tight ends in the NFL, Kraft entered Week 9 with 30 catches for 469 yards (15.6 avg) and six touchdowns on the season.<\/p>\n<p>With the Green Bay loss, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/standings\/playoff-picture\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia is now the top seed in the NFC<\/a> entering Week 10, while the Packers (5-2-1) fell all the way to the No. 5 seed.<\/p>\n<p>Carolina quarterback Bryce Young was 11-20 passing for 102 yards, one interception, and a 48.3 rating. The Panthers were buoyed by Rico Dowdle&#8217;s 25 carries for 130 yards (5.2 avg) and two touchdowns. For Green Bay, Jordan Love was 26-37 passing for 273 yards, zero touchdowns, one interception, and an 80.1 rating. Packers star running back Josh Jacobs had 17 carries for 87 yards and one rushing touchdown.<\/p>\n<p>Micah Parsons had three tackles and one tackle for loss in the defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia will have the opportunity to add separation when coming out of the bye week; they will have high-profile matchups against the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/washington-commanders\/363\" data-autotag=\"a4fb178e-5fd0-440a-8a7b-b87aea742850\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Commanders<\/a> (Twice), <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/detroit-lions\/334\" data-autotag=\"a9d615a6-a025-4346-9c29-28956ed45852\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lions<\/a>, and Packers. Philadelphia had the fourth-hardest schedule entering the season, and overall, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/philadelphia-eagles\/354\" data-autotag=\"c1b3a094-e294-4a77-b1b2-dbdbd5bfa2c5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Eagles<\/a> will be the first team in NFL history to face 10 or more teams from the previous season that made the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Eagles have moved into the No. 1 seed in the NFC after the Packers 16-13 loss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495406,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068],"tags":[247,265,3789,1476,235,260,427,324,146,113,7879,25,7,20842,8746,1071,1724,856,4129,18552,147,1325,6011,491,248,826,267,330,246,88,6,35196,245,338,264,537,236,6012,242,109,2476,530,7878,7152,9,266,1067,14233,855,111,5952],"class_list":{"0":"post-495405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-american","9":"tag-american-football","10":"tag-bryce","11":"tag-bryce-young","12":"tag-carolina","13":"tag-carolina-panthers","14":"tag-commanders","15":"tag-conference","16":"tag-detroit","17":"tag-detroit-lions","18":"tag-dowdle","19":"tag-eagles","20":"tag-football","21":"tag-hub","22":"tag-jacobs","23":"tag-jordan","24":"tag-jordan-love","25":"tag-josh","26":"tag-josh-jacobs","27":"tag-kraft","28":"tag-lions","29":"tag-love","30":"tag-micah","31":"tag-micah-parsons","32":"tag-national","33":"tag-national-football-conference","34":"tag-national-sports","35":"tag-negative","36":"tag-neutral","37":"tag-news","38":"tag-nfl","39":"tag-nfl-hub","40":"tag-overall","41":"tag-overall-negative","42":"tag-overall-neutral","43":"tag-overall-positive","44":"tag-panthers","45":"tag-parsons","46":"tag-philadelphia","47":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","48":"tag-philadelphiaeagles","49":"tag-positive","50":"tag-rico","51":"tag-rico-dowdle","52":"tag-sports","53":"tag-sports-news","54":"tag-tucker","55":"tag-tucker-kraft","56":"tag-washington","57":"tag-washington-commanders","58":"tag-young"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495405","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=495405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}