{"id":653669,"date":"2026-01-04T16:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/653669\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T16:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:36:12","slug":"eagles-commanders-week-18-game-preview-and-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/653669\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles-Commanders Week 18 game preview and predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The Philadelphia Eagles are trying to beat the Washington Commanders today \u2026 but they aren\u2019t exactly going all out to do it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Birds will be resting a number of key starters in an effort to prepare for their first Wild Card game against a team yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">With a win in this game, the Eagles will give themselves a chance to be the No. 2 seed and host the No. 7 Green Bay Packers. It\u2019ll just take a Detroit Lions win over the Chicago Bears to make that scenario happen. For what it\u2019s worth, the Lions are listed as 3.5-point road underdogs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">If the Eagles don\u2019t manage to beat Washington but they do get help from the Lions winning \u2026 well, that\u2019ll be frustrating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">But I don\u2019t think that\u2019s the most likely scenario for Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I think the Eagles, led by Touchdown Tanner McKee, will do enough to come out on top against Josh Johnson\u2019s Commanders. But do the Lions come out on top in Chicago?<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Sure, why not? Dan Campbell\u2019s team could show some fight to try to end a very disappointing season on a high note.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">New year, new optimistic outlook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">For more, check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleedinggreennation.com\/philadelphia-eagles-odds\/167707\/nfl-week-18-game-picks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:BGN\u2019s weekly NFL game predictions;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">BGN\u2019s weekly NFL game predictions<\/a> and NFL picks against the spread.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Suggested format:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Score prediction:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Bold prediction:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">My predictions:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Score prediction: 28 to 24, Eagles win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Bold prediction: Touchdown Tanner McKee throws four touchdowns, doubling his career touchdown total from four to eight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Your predictions:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Scroll down and leave your own score predictions in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Eagles are trying to beat the Washington Commanders today \u2026 but they aren\u2019t exactly going all&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2069],"tags":[391,427,113,7,345,6,109,1840,425,855,111,2480],"class_list":{"0":"post-653669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-washington-commanders","8":"tag-chicago-bears","9":"tag-commanders","10":"tag-detroit-lions","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-green-bay-packers","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","15":"tag-tanner-mckee","16":"tag-the-eagles","17":"tag-washington","18":"tag-washington-commanders","19":"tag-washingtoncommanders"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115837808427479091","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653669","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=653669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}