{"id":669120,"date":"2026-01-11T15:47:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T15:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/669120\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T15:47:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T15:47:17","slug":"eagles-vs-49ers-weather-forecast-has-two-major-issues-for-nfc-wild-card-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/669120\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles vs. 49ers weather forecast has two major issues for NFC wild-card game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/philadelphia-eagles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nfl\/san-francisco-49ers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco 49ers<\/a> will meet at Lincoln Financial Field for the second of three wild-card games on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles enter this game following an 11-6 season that saw Philadelphia <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/standings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">win the NFC East<\/a> and secure the No. 3 seed in the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the 49ers finished with a better record than the Eagles at 12-5, but that was only good enough for third place in the NFC West and the No. 6 seed in the conference.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of kickoff, there are a few concerns with the weather forecast. Let&#8217;s take a closer look and see what they are.<\/p>\n<p>Eagles vs. 49ers weather forecast<\/p>\n<p>According to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accuweather.com\/en\/us\/lincoln-financial-field\/19148\/hourly-weather-forecast\/43025_poi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AccuWeather.com<\/a>, rain and snow are expected during the contest, which will present slick conditions that can lead to poor footing and increased drops and fumbles.<\/p>\n<p>The wind might be a bigger concern, though, as gusts are expected to reach as high as 38 MPH throughout the game.<\/p>\n<p>Gusts over 20 MPH impact the passing attacks and kickers, while also providing a boost for running backs if throwing the football proves to be difficult.<\/p>\n<p>We can only hope conditions end up being better than the forecast suggests, but right now it looks like the Niners and Eagles will be battling Mother Nature on Sunday, also.<\/p>\n<p>More NFL News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco 49ers will meet at Lincoln Financial Field for the second of three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2068],"tags":[25,7,6,242,109,2476],"class_list":{"0":"post-669120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia-eagles","8":"tag-eagles","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","13":"tag-philadelphiaeagles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115877252284308269","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669120","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=669120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}