{"id":68277,"date":"2025-12-23T06:17:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/68277\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T06:17:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T06:17:17","slug":"three-players-ejected-after-brawl-late-in-eagles-win-over-commanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/68277\/","title":{"rendered":"Three players ejected after brawl late in Eagles’ win over Commanders"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Washington linebacker Bobby Wagner<\/a> was asked a question about respect, too, this is what he had to say: “It is what it is, Bro. I don’t care. Is it disrespectful? Maybe. But we’ve still got to stop them. That’s how I look at it.”<\/p>\n

Eagles coach Nick Sirianni said he was not running up the score and considered his decision a simple case of numbers, preferring a 19-point lead to an 18-point edge.<\/p>\n

“We wanted to make sure we went up that way, just in case. That was what our math told us in that particular case,” Sirianni said. “It’s a division game. It’s always back-and-forth. \u2026 That’s the team we played in the NFC Championship Game last year. I know how badly they wanted to beat us. I know how badly we wanted to beat them. We’ve always got to keep our cool in moments like that. But that’s NFC East football. \u2026 They’ve got tough guys. We’ve got tough guys.”<\/p>\n

Eventually, when order was restored, and Wagner, Barkley and Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts<\/a> spoke with each other on the field.<\/p>\n

Barkley said later Wagner made a point that the Eagles running back understood: “Hopefully you don’t break your hand just to say you’re a tough guy. It’s not really worth it. And you lose a lot of money” because of fines.<\/p>\n

“We’ve got to be better. We’ve got to be smarter,” Barkley said. “I’ve got to be smarter. I shouldn’t put myself in that situation. It’s really not worth it.”<\/p>\n

Commanders wide receiver Terry McLaurin<\/a> understood why Eagles coach Nick Sirianni decided to go for 2 there. And like his teammate Wagner, McLaurin was not offended.<\/p>\n

“Eagles vs. Commanders, man. That’s how it goes. … There’s a lot of history, obviously. They were beating us. They’re not going to throw in the towel. They’re not going to take it easy on us. They were going for 2 to bury us. As a team, it’s not like you’re going to tell them, ‘Don’t go for 2.’ We have to stop them,” McLaurin said. “I don’t really take any bad blood from what they did, but you don’t want to see the game get out of hand and guys possibly getting hurt. It comes with this rivalry between us and them. I don’t think that will ever change, to be honest.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Washington linebacker Bobby Wagner was asked a question about respect, too, this is what he had to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6811,139,3266,69,4538,71,70,10769,18022],"class_list":{"0":"post-68277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-associated-press","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-no-minute","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","13":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","14":"tag-philadelphia-news","15":"tag-sensitive-content","16":"tag-washington-commanders"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}