{"id":78118,"date":"2026-01-05T09:19:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/78118\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T09:19:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T09:19:14","slug":"eagles-are-nfcs-3-seed-will-host-niners-in-wild-card-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/78118\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles are NFC&#8217;s 3-seed, will host Niners in Wild Card round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Eagles blew a golden opportunity Sunday in Week 18, faltering to the Commanders to finish the season 11-6 with the NFC&#8217;s 3-seed. Their 24-17 loss made the Bears&#8217; simultaneous loss to the Lions irrelevant. Chicago officially has the 2-seed now.<\/p>\n<p>The drama was not lacking, as Chicago came back from 16 points down, only to lose on a last-minute Lions field goal. The Eagles, meanwhile, blew a lead of their own and were out-scored 14-0 in the fourth quarter in south Philly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\" style=\"text-align: start;\">Head coach Nick Sirianni elected to sit the majority of his starters, relenting that the 2-seed wasn&#8217;t worth risking injury and as a result, the Eagles will host the 49ers next weekend in the NFL&#8217;s Wild Card round<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\" style=\"text-align: start;\">Philadelphia hasn&#8217;t faced the Niners since 2023, when they were decimated by them amid that season&#8217;s epic collapse. A year prior, they did the decimating, knocking two San Francisco quarterbacks out of the game as they made it to the Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\" style=\"text-align: start;\">As the 3-seed, the Eagles will potentially need to travel to face the Bears (if the Bears beat the Packers) in a Divisional Round matchup in Chicago, if they can handle the Niners first. Had they beaten Washington, they&#8217;d have been guaranteed two home playoff games (if they got that far).<\/p>\n<p class=\"center\" style=\"text-align: start;\">The exact time and date for kickoff will be announced later on Sunday. Based on past postseasons, and based on the Eagles being a huge ratings draw, it is likely they&#8217;ll play either in primetime Saturday or in the afternoon or evening on Sunday next weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: start;\">SIGN UP HERE to receive the <a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/newsletters\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PhillyVoice Sports newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15.36px;\">Follow Evan on Twitter:<a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/evan_macy\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@evan_macy<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 15.36px;\">Like us on Facebook:\u00a0<a data-original-title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/phillyvoicesports\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PhillyVoice Sports<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Eagles blew a golden opportunity Sunday in Week 18, faltering to the Commanders to finish the season&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78119,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5004,4988,4064,1418,21790,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-78118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-49ers","tag-bears","tag-eagles","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-playoffs","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78118","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=78118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}