{"id":77983,"date":"2026-01-05T04:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T04:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/77983\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T04:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T04:18:09","slug":"eagles-to-face-49ers-in-wild-card-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/77983\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles to face 49ers in Wild Card Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/e13pv9v5vgjbjjum.jpg\" alt=\"Eagles resting starters for final home game of regular season\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">PHILADELPHIA &#8211; The Eagles are set to defend their Super Bowl title against the San Francisco 49ers during Wild Card Weekend, according to a press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   Eagles secure NFC East title <\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">Philadelphia, with an 11-6 record, clinched the NFC East title and secured the No. 3 seed in the playoffs. They are the only NFC team to repeat as division champions from last year.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The Eagles will host the 49ers at Lincoln Financial Field, with the game scheduled for 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 11, the release states. The match will be broadcast on FOX and SportsRadio 94WIP.<\/p>\n<p> 49ers&#8217; playoff journey <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">San Francisco finished the season with a 12-5 record but fell to the sixth seed after losing to Seattle, 13-3. This loss determined the NFC West division title and the No. 1 seed.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6c8e215c=\"\">The 49ers were edged out by the Los Angeles Rams, who also finished 12-5, but won the tiebreaker to claim the fifth seed. San Francisco&#8217;s last postseason encounter with the Eagles was in the 2002 NFC Championship Game, which Philadelphia won 31-7, according to the team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information from the Philadelphia Eagles and Acme.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/nfl\/philadelphia-eagles\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia Eagles<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/nfl\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NFL<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/san-francisco\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/philadelphia\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/sports\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6c8e215c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA &#8211; The Eagles are set to defend their Super Bowl title against the San Francisco 49ers during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1418,539,69,4538,71,70,8591,726,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-77983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-nfl","9":"tag-pa","10":"tag-philadelphia","11":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","12":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","13":"tag-philadelphia-news","14":"tag-san-francisco","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77983","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=77983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}