Eagles' Challenging Schedule: Analyzing Their 2025 Outlook

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00:00Donnie, when you look at this Eagles schedule, I mean, come on.

00:02Through the first eight weeks, what's the record?

00:04Six and two?

00:04Seven and one?

00:05Talk to me, birds.

00:07I mean, just like when the Los Angeles Dodgers entered the season,

00:10this isn't fair.

00:11Just give them the championship.

00:13It feels that way about the Philadelphia Eagles.

00:14Even though we have a salary cap in the NFL, this team is that good.

00:17But again, when you win the championship, it's not like the NBA.

00:20Like, oh, we're going to balance out every schedule, right?

00:22Or Major League Baseball.

00:24You get the toughest schedule.

00:25And sometimes it winds up with you end up with two unbelievably tough divisions

00:29and then the crossover winners of the division versus winner of division games.

00:35When I look at the Eagles schedule, yes, it is tough.

00:38But if there's a team that can go through the schedule

00:39and still wind up with double-digit victories

00:41and end up with maybe a number two or a number three seed at worst,

00:45it's this Philadelphia Eagles team, Kevin.

00:47You look at the offensive line.

00:48It's perfect.

00:48You look at the quarterback coming off with an MVP season and a championship.

00:52Dominant wide receivers.

00:53You bring the tight end back, Saquon Barkley in the backfield,

00:55and an electric defense that, yes, missed out on some parts.

00:58But those key components are still there with Vic Fangio as the defensive coordinator.

01:03I'm excited for that.

01:04Now, granted, you do have to get off to a good start,

01:07which means you play the Cowboys on opening night.

01:09That's a must-win game.

01:11Six-and-a-half, sevens out there in the atmosphere right now at different sports books.

01:14That tells you the Eagles should win, and I agree with it.

01:16But they're going to get no help with that Chiefs game right off the bat.

01:20And also, by the way, the Chiefs will be playing overseas.

01:22That'll help the Philadelphia Eagles.

01:23But if you were the Eagles, you probably would have liked them not to get that overseas game

01:26because that means they would have played on a Sunday and not a Friday,

01:29and you get the extra time built in.

01:30So it's really only like a 24-hour difference where the Eagles will play on Thursday,

01:34and then the Chiefs will play on Friday.

01:35So not that big of a difference.

01:36Rams, Buccaneers, Broncos.

01:38This will be a test.

01:39You get the best shot from everywhere.

01:40But I got to tell you, looking at the schedule, yes, it is tough.

01:43But you go game by game by game and be like, all right,

01:46the Eagles are going to be competitive in every single game.

01:48Why?

01:48Because they're good.

01:49But also, you're getting the other team's best punches.

01:51No favors were done to the Eagles.

01:53But that's what happens, Kevin, when you have the first-place schedule as the Super Bowl champions.

01:57But I want to make this point.

01:58No favors were done to Philly in terms of who they play.

02:02But you can't do favors in that capacity.

02:05This Eagles schedule is a representation why,

02:07if you're going to talk NFL futures before the schedule comes out,

02:10please do not give me opinions on those futures based on the schedule.

02:14I do not care about the list of teams they play at home

02:17and the list of teams they play at the road.

02:19The Eagles go to Kansas City.

02:21They have a rest advantage.

02:23Because even if it's a smaller one,

02:25the Chiefs play on a Friday and Philly plays on a Thursday.

02:29The Eagles go to Minnesota with a rest advantage

02:31because they're coming off of a Thursday night game against the Giants.

02:35They go to Green Bay off of their bye week.

02:38Fantastic.

02:39They go to LA off the Chargers coming off a Black Friday game.

02:43Rest advantage.

02:44That is four spots that before the year you go

02:49at Kansas City, at Minnesota, at Green Bay, at LA.

02:52Those are tough.

02:53And the Eagles now have...

02:55The Eagles, Donnie, should be at least 2-2 in those football games

02:59because the schedule broke their way rest-wise.

03:04I think it's one of the early winners, Donnie,

03:06of the actual schedule placements.

03:09I really did believe it was the Philadelphia Eagles.

03:11And you know where I go right away when the schedule release comes out?

03:14Who has that road Thursday night game?

03:16And the Philadelphia Eagles do have that.

03:18But, Kevin, it's in New York.

03:19You practice in the morning, jump on an hour-and-a-half train,

03:23and you're up there and staying in a hotel.

03:24It's not that normal, hey, Philadelphia's got to go to Tampa Bay

03:27or Carolina or Atlanta where you have that entire travel day.

03:29Maybe a jet lag because you're going two and three time zones over.

03:32You don't have that.

03:33So that's actually a win for the Eagles.

03:35You always want that Thursday night game home.

03:36But if it is going to be on the road, you would want it to be the Commanders,

03:39Baltimore Ravens, and or the New York Giants.

03:41So that's not really a detriment to me on a Thursday night,

03:43which is such usually a detriment to the road team.

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