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Eagles' Challenging Schedule: Analyzing Their 2025 Outlook
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5/28/2025
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00:00
Donnie, when you look at this Eagles schedule, I mean, come on.
00:02
Through the first eight weeks, what's the record?
00:04
Six and two?
00:04
Seven and one?
00:05
Talk to me, birds.
00:07
I mean, just like when the Los Angeles Dodgers entered the season,
00:10
this isn't fair.
00:11
Just give them the championship.
00:13
It feels that way about the Philadelphia Eagles.
00:14
Even though we have a salary cap in the NFL, this team is that good.
00:17
But again, when you win the championship, it's not like the NBA.
00:20
Like, oh, we're going to balance out every schedule, right?
00:22
Or Major League Baseball.
00:24
You get the toughest schedule.
00:25
And sometimes it winds up with you end up with two unbelievably tough divisions
00:29
and then the crossover winners of the division versus winner of division games.
00:35
When I look at the Eagles schedule, yes, it is tough.
00:38
But if there's a team that can go through the schedule
00:39
and still wind up with double-digit victories
00:41
and end up with maybe a number two or a number three seed at worst,
00:45
it's this Philadelphia Eagles team, Kevin.
00:47
You look at the offensive line.
00:48
It's perfect.
00:48
You look at the quarterback coming off with an MVP season and a championship.
00:52
Dominant wide receivers.
00:53
You bring the tight end back, Saquon Barkley in the backfield,
00:55
and an electric defense that, yes, missed out on some parts.
00:58
But those key components are still there with Vic Fangio as the defensive coordinator.
01:03
I'm excited for that.
01:04
Now, granted, you do have to get off to a good start,
01:07
which means you play the Cowboys on opening night.
01:09
That's a must-win game.
01:11
Six-and-a-half, sevens out there in the atmosphere right now at different sports books.
01:14
That tells you the Eagles should win, and I agree with it.
01:16
But they're going to get no help with that Chiefs game right off the bat.
01:20
And also, by the way, the Chiefs will be playing overseas.
01:22
That'll help the Philadelphia Eagles.
01:23
But if you were the Eagles, you probably would have liked them not to get that overseas game
01:26
because that means they would have played on a Sunday and not a Friday,
01:29
and you get the extra time built in.
01:30
So it's really only like a 24-hour difference where the Eagles will play on Thursday,
01:34
and then the Chiefs will play on Friday.
01:35
So not that big of a difference.
01:36
Rams, Buccaneers, Broncos.
01:38
This will be a test.
01:39
You get the best shot from everywhere.
01:40
But I got to tell you, looking at the schedule, yes, it is tough.
01:43
But you go game by game by game and be like, all right,
01:46
the Eagles are going to be competitive in every single game.
01:48
Why?
01:48
Because they're good.
01:49
But also, you're getting the other team's best punches.
01:51
No favors were done to the Eagles.
01:53
But that's what happens, Kevin, when you have the first-place schedule as the Super Bowl champions.
01:57
But I want to make this point.
01:58
No favors were done to Philly in terms of who they play.
02:02
But you can't do favors in that capacity.
02:05
This Eagles schedule is a representation why,
02:07
if you're going to talk NFL futures before the schedule comes out,
02:10
please do not give me opinions on those futures based on the schedule.
02:14
I do not care about the list of teams they play at home
02:17
and the list of teams they play at the road.
02:19
The Eagles go to Kansas City.
02:21
They have a rest advantage.
02:23
Because even if it's a smaller one,
02:25
the Chiefs play on a Friday and Philly plays on a Thursday.
02:29
The Eagles go to Minnesota with a rest advantage
02:31
because they're coming off of a Thursday night game against the Giants.
02:35
They go to Green Bay off of their bye week.
02:38
Fantastic.
02:39
They go to LA off the Chargers coming off a Black Friday game.
02:43
Rest advantage.
02:44
That is four spots that before the year you go
02:49
at Kansas City, at Minnesota, at Green Bay, at LA.
02:52
Those are tough.
02:53
And the Eagles now have...
02:55
The Eagles, Donnie, should be at least 2-2 in those football games
02:59
because the schedule broke their way rest-wise.
03:04
I think it's one of the early winners, Donnie,
03:06
of the actual schedule placements.
03:09
I really did believe it was the Philadelphia Eagles.
03:11
And you know where I go right away when the schedule release comes out?
03:14
Who has that road Thursday night game?
03:16
And the Philadelphia Eagles do have that.
03:18
But, Kevin, it's in New York.
03:19
You practice in the morning, jump on an hour-and-a-half train,
03:23
and you're up there and staying in a hotel.
03:24
It's not that normal, hey, Philadelphia's got to go to Tampa Bay
03:27
or Carolina or Atlanta where you have that entire travel day.
03:29
Maybe a jet lag because you're going two and three time zones over.
03:32
You don't have that.
03:33
So that's actually a win for the Eagles.
03:35
You always want that Thursday night game home.
03:36
But if it is going to be on the road, you would want it to be the Commanders,
03:39
Baltimore Ravens, and or the New York Giants.
03:41
So that's not really a detriment to me on a Thursday night,
03:43
which is such usually a detriment to the road team.
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