May 16, 20241 yr 11 hours ago, TV Guy said: Really? I don't think that schedule is anywhere close to how hard last year's was. 7 out of 10 road games early in the year? In fact you should say 8 because the opener is a road game really. The opponents may not be as hard (though we don’t yet know) but the schedule is tricky given the volume of early road games. And an early bye week to go with it. The flip side is you get home games to end the year so that’s good… But if we don’t start well that may be meaningless.
May 16, 20241 yr 13 wins, and the #2 seed I reckon. I can see us with a L against Baltimore, Cincinnati, split with Dallas, and then a curveball from somewhere (there´s always one). It´s way more favourable at first glance
May 16, 20241 yr 2 hours ago, UK_EaglesFan89 said: 7 out of 10 road games early in the year? In fact you should say 8 because the opener is a road game really. The opponents may not be as hard (though we don’t yet know) but the schedule is tricky given the volume of early road games. And an early bye week to go with it. The flip side is you get home games to end the year so that’s good… But if we don’t start well that may be meaningless. The Packers would be on the road then too so there is no true home team there.
May 16, 20241 yr I’d much rather have the home games later in the year. The week 5 bye, while not ideal is not that big a deal either. In 2003, our bye was week 3 and we started that year 0-2 and still finished 12-4, had a 9 game win streak and finished as the 1 seed. No idea what this team will ultimately be, but I don’t see the schedule having that much influence.
May 16, 20241 yr 2 minutes ago, EagleJoe8 said: I’d much rather have the home games later in the year. The week 5 bye, while not ideal is not that big a deal either. In 2003, our bye was week 3 and we started that year 0-2 and still finished 12-4, had a 9 game win streak and finished as the 1 seed. No idea what this team will ultimately be, but I don’t see the schedule having that much influence. People ALWAYS make WAY too big of a deal out of the schedule when it comes out in May.
May 16, 20241 yr 1 minute ago, T-1000 said: People ALWAYS make WAY too big of a deal out of the schedule when it comes out in May. The gauntlet from last year at least looked legit given the quality of teams in a row. This one doesn’t look all that bad. Of course, one person in particular has made it a point to take on the persona of someone who easily panics about things. We’ll always have those types.
May 16, 20241 yr 2 hours ago, Bwestbrook36 said: The Packers would be on the road then too so there is no true home team there. No very true there isn’t… But we lose the home field advantage to a good team.
May 16, 20241 yr After last two seasons this is mostly nice middle of the road schedule. The strength of schedule difference between us and Dallas seems big this year (GB LAR JAX vs SF DET HOU)
May 17, 20241 yr On 5/16/2024 at 2:46 AM, UK_EaglesFan89 said: 7 out of 10 road games early in the year? In fact you should say 8 because the opener is a road game really. The opponents may not be as hard (though we don’t yet know) but the schedule is tricky given the volume of early road games. And an early bye week to go with it. The flip side is you get home games to end the year so that’s good… But if we don’t start well that may be meaningless. Somehow you counted 2 extra road games? If you count the Packers game since both teams are on the road, in their first 10 games they have 6 road games, not 8. The bye comes after 2 road games so that helps then they have a home game after the bye. The bye rotates, it is what it is. You somehow always find the negative anxious spin on everything. Here's another way to look at the schedule: Travel to Brazil comes earlier before the rest of the league games. And it's only 1 hour time difference, rather than flying to Europe like most international games. They get 9 days before their next game, lots of time to rest and prepare. Their next game is a home game on Monday night, giving them 9 days of rest (10 if you count the Monday leading up to the game that night) 2 road games in the NFC South, then a bye to rest, then a home game. Easy. A road game to NY that is practically a home game (shortest travel, many Eagles fans) Short road trip to Cincy playing a tough team, then a home game, then another road game IMO the toughest portion is the west coast travel for the Rams then at Baltimore which is close by, but on the road against a top team Followed by the worst team in the league at home vs the Panthers, nice Get the Steelers at home which is good, then 3 NFCE games, 2 of which are home and the last 2 games are home games. It's actually a good schedule with balance of travel and rest and nowhere near as difficult as last year.
May 17, 20241 yr https://www.espn.com/nfl/team/schedule/_/name/phi/philadelphia-eagles This topic didn't have the official schedule, and I like that ESPN has a simple list view that shows the day of the week, time and TV broadcast.
May 17, 20241 yr Eagles at Dallas on CBS. Hard to believe that Fox gave that one up. Although it's not as straightforward as it used to be.
May 17, 20241 yr 1 hour ago, TV Guy said: Eagles at Dallas on CBS. Hard to believe that Fox gave that one up. Although it's not as straightforward as it used to be. There was a game like that last year. They simulcast on Paramount+ too.
May 20, 20241 yr On 5/16/2024 at 3:52 AM, kiwinavega said: 13 wins, and the #2 seed I reckon. I can see us with a L against Baltimore, Cincinnati, split with Dallas, and then a curveball from somewhere (there´s always one). It´s way more favourable at first glance the curveballs are called the Jets
May 21, 20241 yr On 5/17/2024 at 12:31 PM, TV Guy said: Eagles at Dallas on CBS. Hard to believe that Fox gave that one up. Although it's not as straightforward as it used to be. There is no longer any official conference affiliation between CBS and FOX. Games from either conference can air on either network. I can see the College Football Playoff Committee and elected officials in states where college football is bigger than the NFL taking the NFL to court to block them from having Saturday games in Week 16 opposite the CFP. While that comes after the prohibitions of Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961 that this year prevent Friday games after 6:00 PM Eastern Time until Saturday games at Midnight local time to protect high school and college football through the second Saturday in December (and it extends to that week as it has since 2002 after in 2001 9/11 forced several college football conference title games to be delayed a week) that this year is Weeks 2-15 because it starts the second Saturday in September (also why the Eagles are in Brazil on a Friday in Week 1 since that is the first Friday in September), this is the first year of the expanded College Football Playoff with the first round of that on Dec. 21-22, the Friday and Saturday of Week 16. It would not surprise me if Congress goes back to extend the ban on NFL games on Friday and Saturday to the third such in December to account for the CFP or with the CFP goes to court to block the NFL from playing any games when the CFP is taking place that Friday and Saturday, resulting in: The NFL having to scrap the Christmas Day games entirely (and give Netflix an additional year on their deal as compensation for losing the games this year due to courts barring the NFL from having Saturday games opposite the CFP) OR For Week 16, the NFL has doubleheaders on Thursday and Friday (with Amazon Prime playing say it's game for Week 16 between the Browns and Bengals at 5:30 PM ET and ESPN getting a replacement game for Saints-Packers following that at 9:00 PM ET) while FOX its scheduled Saturday game, Steelers-Ravens on Friday at 5:30 or 6:00 PM ET followed by NBC having its scheduled Saturday game, Texans-Chiefs at 9:00 or 9:30 PM ET and the NFL then playing the full Sunday slate on Saturday that week with the CFP getting a Sunday tripleheader on ABC and the normal MNF slot on ABC or ESPN for it's first-round playoff games. OR The NFL is forced to revamp the schedule for Weeks 16-17 with the Christmas Day games, Chiefs-Steelers and Ravens-Texans being the final games of Week 16 instead of the first games of Week 17 and on Monday, December 30, Texans-Chiefs at 1:00 on NBC and Steelers-Ravens at 4:30 on FOX ahead of Monday night football on ESPN, Saints-Packers at its scheduled 8:15 PM ET kickoff though also possibly with Texans-Chiefs at 2:00 on NBC, Steelers-Ravens at 5:30 on FOX and Saints-Packers at 9:15 PM ET to account somewhat for the fact not everyone gets that Monday of the week between Christmas and New Year's off.
May 21, 20241 yr On 5/17/2024 at 11:57 AM, NOTW said: https://www.espn.com/nfl/team/schedule/_/name/phi/philadelphia-eagles This topic didn't have the official schedule, and I like that ESPN has a simple list view that shows the day of the week, time and TV broadcast. Strange that they would post that using Central Time.
May 21, 20241 yr 2 hours ago, time2rock said: Strange that they would post that using Central Time. I'm in Central time so it showed my local time.
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