{"id":128060,"date":"2025-09-02T20:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/128060\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T20:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T20:40:07","slug":"eagles-wont-be-on-field-for-banner-raising-thursday-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/128060\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles won&#8217;t be on field for banner raising Thursday night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Eagles don\u2019t want to be known as <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/eagles-dont-want-to-be-known-as-defending-champions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">defending champions<\/a> this year because they want their eyes on the future rather than the past and their aversion to marinating in last season\u2019s success will extend to Thursday night. <\/p>\n<p>They will be hosting the Cowboys in the slot traditionally given to the reigning Super Bowl winners and the pomp and circumstance of the night will include raising a banner honoring their 40-22 win over the Chiefs in New Orleans. Plenty of people will be watching that moment, but head coach Nick Sirianni said at a Tuesday press conference that he and the team\u2019s players won\u2019t be part of the crowd. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t know it was banner night,\u201d Sirianni said, via a transcript from the team. \u201cWe won\u2019t be out for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sirianni said this offseason it is an \u201c<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nfl\/profootballtalk\/rumor-mill\/news\/nick-sirianni-wants-sustained-success-not-a-repeat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">error<\/a>\u201d for teams to bask in past glory and the decision for Thursday underlines his point that the current season should be the only thing on anyone\u2019s mind. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Eagles don\u2019t want to be known as defending champions this year because they want their eyes on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-128060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}