Three players were ejected as the Philadelphia \u2060Eagles beat the Washington Commanders 29-18 to win the NFC East title for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n
Washington’s Javon Kinlaw and Quan Martin were dismissed along with Philadelphia’s Tyler Steen following a brawl between both sets of players in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
The incident occurred after Saquon Barkley’s two-point conversion put the visiting Eagles 29-10 in front, and the trio were flagged for unnecessary roughness during the clash.<\/p>\n
“It’s chippy out there. We have a lot of history with this team, especially since I’ve been here,” said Barkley.<\/p>\n
“This team don’t like us, this is the truth, and we don’t like them either. But we got to keep it football.”<\/p>\n
Barkley ran for 132 yards and a touchdown for the NFL champions, while team-mate Jalen Hurts completed 22 of 30 passes for 185 yards and two touchdowns. <\/p>\n
The victory meant the Eagles (10-5) became back-to-back NFC East winners for the first time since they ended a win of four titles in a row in 2004.<\/p>\n
“Back-to-back division champs, hasn’t been done in 20 years, so that’s big,” said Barkley.<\/p>\n
“I love the way we finished. We stood together and most importantly got the win.”<\/p>\n
The Eagles are now assured of a home game to start the play-offs, while the Commanders had already been eliminated from the post-season shake-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three players were ejected as the Philadelphia \u2060Eagles beat the Washington Commanders 29-18 to win the NFC East…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-203349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}