Who will the Chicago Bears play in the wild-card round? Breaking down their potential playoff scenarios.<\/a><\/p>\nThe Eagles won last week at cold, rainy Buffalo \u2014 a Super Bowl contender \u2014 even as Hurts failed to complete a pass in the second half for the second time this season.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnother thing about having the road record that we do, I think that\u2019s a product of really good players and good coaches, and so it\u2019s everything that goes into that, but good mental toughness,\u201d Sirianni said. \u201cI think that really signifies your mental toughness too.\u201d<\/p>\n
McKee gets another start<\/p>\n
With Hurts holding a clipboard, McKee is excited to get another shot at starting a game.<\/p>\n
A sixth-round pick out of Stanford in 2023, McKee has thrown for 356 yards with four touchdowns and no interceptions in limited action over the last two seasons.\u00a0He was 27 of 41 for 269 yards and a pair of touchdowns in his Week 18 start last season against the Giants.<\/p>\n
\u201cEach week leading up, I\u2019ve been preparing like I\u2019m going to play, in case I do,\u201d McKee said. \u201cPreparation\u2019s been pretty similar. It\u2019s nice to get more reps in practice.\u201d<\/p>\n
McKee, 25, has taken limited snaps in mop-up duty in three blowout victories this season. He completed all three passes for 33 yards in a win over the Las Vegas Raiders.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like I have a good feel, can play fast,\u201d McKee said. \u201cAs a quarterback it\u2019s really big to be able to play and just react to the game instead of trying to think of, \u2018What\u2019s my job? What\u2019s my footwork? What\u2019s everybody else doing?\u2019 You can just play and react. So I feel like I\u2019ve gotten to that point and I feel comfortable doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sirianni doesn\u2019t expect repeat of brawl<\/p>\n
The Eagles clinched their second straight NFC title in a win two weeks ago at Washington in a rivalry game that had three players ejected after a fight broke out among several members of both teams in the aftermath of Barkley\u2019s 2-point conversion that increased the Eagles\u2019 lead to 19 points with about 4\u00bd minutes left.<\/p>\n
Two Commanders players \u2014 defensive lineman Javon Kinlaw and safety Quan Martin \u2014 and one Eagles player \u2014 offensive lineman Tyler Steen \u2014 were disqualified after being flagged for unnecessary roughness during the brawl.<\/p>\n
There was some punching, a ton of pushing and shoving and a lot of jawing, too, as the scrum spread across the grass.<\/p>\n
Sirianni wasn\u2019t expecting tempers to flare in Philly.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, because I know the referees do a great job of controlling that, and I have the utmost respect for Coach Quinn,\u201d he said. \u201cI know myself, too, is like, we want to go out there and have an opportunity to play football.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA \u2014 The Philadelphia Eagles are so concerned about clinching the No. 2 seed in the NFC playoffs,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[24103,241,1418,69,71,70,726],"class_list":{"0":"post-77038","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-chicago-bears","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","13":"tag-philadelphia-news","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77038","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=77038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}