The Philadelphia Eagles will enter Week 18 alive for the No. 2 seed in the NFC playoff picture.<\/p>\n
The Birds helped themselves in Week 17 by narrowly beating the Buffalo Bills. Then they got some help with the San Francisco 49ers beating the Chicago Bears on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
The Eagles can now clinch the No. 2 seed in the final week of the regular season if BOTH of the following two results come to pass:<\/p>\n
It remains to be seen if the Eagles will play their starters against the Commanders. There\u2019s a strong case to be made that they should since the No. 2 seed guarantees a second home game in the playoffs if they win their Wild
Card matchup. It also allows for the Eagles to host the NFC Championship Game if the No. 1 seed gets knocked out, which is exactly what happened last year.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s possible the Eagles could beat Washington with their backups. Then again, Dan Quinn seemed pretty hellbent on avenging Washington\u2019s Week 16 loss to Philly.<\/p>\n
As for the Bears losing to the Lions? Well, that\u2019s tough to count on. Detroit was eliminated from playoff contention on Christmas, so, it\u2019s not like they have motivation to go all out to win. But Dan Campbell could still have his guys fired up to finish the regular season on a high note by worsening a division rival\u2019s playoff seeding.<\/p>\n
For what it\u2019s worth, the Lions will have a rest advantage in that game. They last played on Thursday afternoon while the Bears played in California on Sunday night and will have to travel back to Chicago.<\/p>\n
If the Eagles do get the No. 2 seed, they\u2019ll host the Green Bay Packers at Lincoln Financial Field in the Wild Card round \u2026 just like they did last year. If they finish with the No. 3 seed, they\u2019ll host either the Los Angeles Rams, Seattle Seahawks, or San Francisco 49ers.<\/p>\n
All potential scenarios outlined by the great Deniz Selman below:<\/p>\n
1) Seattle Seahawks: 13-3*
2) Chicago Bears: 11-5*
3) Philadelphia Eagles: 11-5^
4) Carolina Panthers: 8-8<\/p>\n
^officially clinched division
*officially clinched playoff berth<\/p>\n
5) San Francisco 49ers: 12-4*
6) Los Angeles Rams: 11-4*
7) Green Bay Packers: 9-6-1*<\/p>\n
*officially clinched playoff berth<\/p>\n
Note: the Rams are being hosted by the Atlanta Falcons on Monday night to wrap up Week 17.<\/p>\n
ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay Buccaneers: 7-9<\/p>\n
NFC teams eliminated from playoff contention<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Eagles will enter Week 18 alive for the No. 2 seed in the NFC playoff picture.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,6,5406,83988],"class_list":{"0":"post-637268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-nfl","10":"tag-philadelphia-eagles-news","11":"tag-philadelphia-eagles-playoffs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115801931431871866","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637268","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=637268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}