{"id":119287,"date":"2025-09-04T22:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/119287\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T22:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T22:14:07","slug":"cowboys-vs-eagles-live-updates-from-2025-nfl-kickoff-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/119287\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys vs. Eagles: Live updates from 2025 NFL kickoff game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 NFL season kicks off Thursday night as the defending Super Bowl champion <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"d1a9b001-1df7-fbd7-ae4c-6ca7065286ec\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/phi\/philadelphia-eagles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Eagles<\/a> host the <a data-clubhouse-guid=\"b0fc8fb7-9dbe-e574-9008-6f0ee7c6b234\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/dal\/dallas-cowboys\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Cowboys<\/a> at Lincoln Financial Field.<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/p>\n<p>2 Related<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the first time these NFC East rivals have opened a season against each other since 2000, when the Eagles cruised past the Cowboys 41-14. According to ESPN BET, Philadelphia enters as an 8.5-point favorite, the largest spread for a defending champion in a kickoff game since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com.au\/nfl\/team\/_\/name\/tb\/tampa-bay-buccaneers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay<\/a> in 2021, with <a data-player-guid=\"caceb80c-6350-a107-9fcf-7c7bd1b4edd8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/4040715\/jalen-hurts\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jalen Hurts<\/a> leading an offense that looks to pick up right where it left off.<\/p>\n<p>More recent history, though, leans in Dallas&#8217; favor.<\/p>\n<p>While Philadelphia swept the series last season, <a data-player-guid=\"5f09781b-6b0b-7325-049b-a91e60d794e6\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nfl\/player\/_\/id\/2577417\/dak-prescott\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dak Prescott<\/a> &#8212; who missed both of those games &#8212; is 4-1 against the Eagles since 2021, with 16 touchdown passes and just one interception in that span.<\/p>\n<p>Can the Cowboys spoil the champs&#8217; home opener, or will the Eagles start their repeat bid with another statement win?<\/p>\n<p>Follow along all night for live updates, highlights and the biggest moments from the NFL kickoff game.<\/p>\n<p>ESPN Research contributed to this story.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/_end_rule.png\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2025 NFL season kicks off Thursday night as the defending Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles host the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[64,63,593,85],"class_list":["post-119287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}