With a win over the Detroit Lions on Sunday night, the Philadelphia Eagles retained their position as the No. 1 seed in the NFC playoff picture.<\/p>\n
The Birds can clinch a first-round bye by winning their final seven games.<\/p>\n
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That outcome obviously isn\u2019t likely. But they probably won\u2019t need to win out to be the top seed.<\/p>\n
The Eagles\u2019 top competition for No. 1 is currently the Los Angeles Rams, who are also 8-2 after a big win over the Seattle Seahawks. But Philly holds a valuable head-to-head tiebreaker against Sean McVay\u2019s squad from beating them in Week 3.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s take a look at the remaining schedules for these two teams.<\/p>\n
EAGLES REMAINING SCHEDULE<\/p>\n
Week 12 at Dallas Cowboys
Week 13 vs. Chicago Bears
Week 14 at Los Angeles Chargers
Week 15 vs. Las Vegas Raiders
Week 16 at Washington Commanders
Week 17 at Buffalo Bills
Week 18 vs. Washington Commanders<\/p>\n
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Let\u2019s say the Eagles go 5-2 in this stretch, with losses to the Cowboys (who they rarely sweep) and the Bills. That would put them at 13-4.<\/p>\n
RAMS REMAINING SCHEDULE<\/p>\n
Week 12 vs. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Week 13 at Carolina Panthers
Week 14 at Arizona Cardinals
Week 15 vs. Detroit Lions
Week 16 at Seattle Seahawks
Week 17 at Atlanta Falcons
Week 18 vs. Arizona Cardinals<\/p>\n
If the Eagles go 5-2, the Rams have to go 6-1 or better in this stretch. Not impossible \u2026 but not likely.<\/p>\n
Of course, it\u2019s possible it\u2019s another team and not the Rams who give the Eagles a run for the top spot. But the Bucs are also on the wrong side of a head-to-head tiebreaker against Philly. The Eagles have a chance to beat the Bears, who have a negative point differential, at Lincoln Financial Field. The Eagles don\u2019t play the Seahawks in the regular season, so, head-to-head doesn\u2019t apply \u2026 but Seattle is currently 4-3 in conference games while the Eagles are 7-1.<\/p>\n
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When it comes to the NFC East, the Eagles\u2019 magic number (combined Eagles win and Cowboys losses) to win the division is four. This feels like an inevitability at this point. It can happen very soon if the Eagles manage to beat the Cowboys in Dallas next weekend.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s still a lot of football left to be played. But it\u2019s hard not to like where the Eagles are right now from playoff positioning standpoint.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s the entire current NFC playoff picture.<\/p>\n
PROJECTED PLAYOFF TEAMSDIVISION LEADERS<\/p>\n
1) Philadelphia Eagles: 8-2
2) Los Angeles Rams: 8-2
3) Chicago Bears: 7-3
4) Tampa Bay Buccaneers: 6-4<\/p>\n
WILD CARD TEAMS<\/p>\n
5) Seattle Seahawks: 7-3
6) Green Bay Packers: 6-3-1
7) San Francisco 49ers: 7-4<\/p>\n
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ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING ININ THE HUNT<\/p>\n
8) Detroit Lions: 6-4
9) Carolina Panthers: 6-5
10) Minnesota Vikings: 4-6
11) Dallas Cowboys: 3-5-1*<\/p>\n
*Cowboys play the Raiders in Las Vegas on Monday night.<\/p>\n
UNSERIOUS TEAMS<\/p>\n
12) Arizona Cardinals: 3-7
13) Atlanta Falcons: 3-7
14) Washington Commanders: 3-8
15) New Orleans Saints: 2-8
16) New York Giants: 2-9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a win over the Detroit Lions on Sunday night, the Philadelphia Eagles retained their position as the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[390,254,53,260,241,391,257,113,7,345,393,58,259,55,56,1867,6,84,109,252,261,250,425,111],"class_list":{"0":"post-531952","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl-playoffs","8":"tag-arizona-cardinals","9":"tag-atlanta-falcons","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-carolina-panthers","12":"tag-chargers","13":"tag-chicago-bears","14":"tag-dallas-cowboys","15":"tag-detroit-lions","16":"tag-football","17":"tag-green-bay-packers","18":"tag-las-vegas-raiders","19":"tag-los-angeles-rams","20":"tag-minnesota-vikings","21":"tag-new-orleans-saints","22":"tag-new-york-giants","23":"tag-nfc-playoff-picture","24":"tag-nfl","25":"tag-nfl-playoffs","26":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","27":"tag-san-francisco-49ers","28":"tag-seattle-seahawks","29":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","30":"tag-the-eagles","31":"tag-washington-commanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115564515432701287","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531952","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=531952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}