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Carrying over from the old board this thread.  Obviously, this was written before we knew about the Coronavirus and how much it has changed everything but I am carrying it over in tact from the old board.

For those who don't know, these are the Eagles opponents in 2020:

Full Divisions: AFC North and NFC West
NFC Division Winners (since we won our division): vs. NFC South, at NFC North

Home: Bengals, Ravens, Rams, Seahawks, Saints, CowboysGiantsRedskins

Away: Browns, Steelers, 49ers, Cardinals, Packers, CowboysGiantsRedskins

Keep in mind the following (and I have to keep this in because until we hear otherwise MLB will likely try to maintain as much of the original schedule as possible, though I'm sure the NFL may be working with MLB as MLB could wind up running MUCH later than normal due to the virus):

Eagles likely must open at home Sunday 9/13 since the Phillies are on the road at the Braves that day and while they could open Monday 9/14, that's an off day for the Phils that likely has to be kept in reserve in case the Phils have to make up a home rainout that day.

Eagles can only play at home on Thursday 9/17 in Week 2 (otherwise they must play on the road), and that again likely has to be held in reserve in case the Phils have to make up a home rainout that day.

Eagles can play at home in Week 3 on Sunday 9/27 only as the Phillies finish the regular season at Nationals Park against the Nationals (Monday 9/28 has to be held in reserve in case a rainout makeup or one-game playoff has to be played that day, Thursday 9/24 is a 4:05 game against the Mets).

Eagles likely will be on the road Weeks 4-6 as I suspect the NFL will again assume the Phillies make the MLB Playoffs.

With that in mind:

Week 1: Sunday 9/13 vs. Seahawks, 8:20 PM ET on NBC (This to me is the first part of a three-part make-up to the Eagles for this past season's Week 12 flex-out that if had not been done could have resulted in unintended consequences for CBS and the NFL due to the political climate we are currently in, this is also possible because the Mariners are at home that day so the Seahawks must open on the road unless they win it all).

Week 2: Sunday 9/20 at Redskins, 1:00 PM ET on FOX 

Week 3: Sunday 9/27 vs. Bengals, 1:00 PM ET on CBS

Week 4: Sunday 10/4 at Cowboys, 4:25 PM ET on FOX

Week 5: Sunday 10/11 at Cardinals, 4:05 or 4:25 PM ET on FOX

Week 6: Sunday 10/18 at 49ers, 4:25 PM ET on CBS (I suspect this will be a cross-flex as the main late game that week on CBS, I have it where the Eagles spend both the week before and after the Cardinals game in Arizona, allowing for such a road trip)

Week 7: Sunday 10/25 BYE WEEK (this stretch gives MLB complete control over the MLB playoff schedule if the Phillies did get to the World Series).

Week 8: Sunday 11/1 vs. Saints, 4:25 PM ET on FOX

Week 9: Sunday 11/8 at Packers, 8:20 PM ET on NBC

Week 10: Monday 11/16 at Browns, 8:15 PM ET on ESPN

Week 11: Sunday 11/22 vs. Redskins, 1:00 PM ET on FOX

Week 12: Thursday 11/26 (Thanksgiving) vs. Ravens, 8:20 PM ET on NBC (second part of a three-part make-up of this past season's Week 12 flexout)

Week 13: Thursday 12/3 vs. Cowboys, 8:20 PM ET on FOX (possibly FOX only, as we discovered this season FOX does have the right to do an exclusive Thursday Night game without NFL Network as did happen one week this season during a dispute between FOX and Dish Network, this the third part of a three-part makeup of the week 12 flexout)

Week 14: Sunday 12/13 at Giants, 1:00 PM ET on FOX

Week 15: Sunday 12/20 at Steelers, 4:25 PM ET on CBS (cross-flexed from FOX)

Week 16: Sunday 12/27 vs. Rams, 4:25 PM ET on FOX

Week 17: Sunday 1/3 vs. Giants, Time and Network TBD

Brutal stretch to start but I do have the Eagles finishing with five-of-seven at home and after Week 10 only plane ride is in-state to Pittsburgh.  

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Why aren't we playing on Black Friday in London?????

 

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1 hour ago, schuy7 said:

Week 1 against Seattle would be... interesting. 

Seattle again? Jeez we can't freaking escape them. 

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29 minutes ago, uncphillyfan said:

Schedule comes out May 9th?

Last I read was "sometime before May 9th”

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There's no way we get scheduled weeks 4-6 like that. 

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On 4/28/2020 at 11:59 PM, What The F said:

There's no way we get scheduled weeks 4-6 like that. 

Again, this was written BEFORE the virus came into play and I clearly stated that.  

And I can see that kind of a three week road trip because the Eagles can spend the week before AND after in the city where the middle game is taking place to cut down on travel.  A DAL-ARI-SF road trip would be very feasible since I suspect the Eagles could easily spend the middle two weeks practicing in Tempe, especially with Herm Edwards (a former Eagle) there coaching Arizona State,  That's something I think Herm would welcome to show his players (again, that is IF we have college football on time in the fall) how the NFL operates first-hand. 

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Wally,

Thanks for the effort to put this out there, and for all your attention to scheduling and broadcast issues.  One problem, though, is that I think you did not consider that the NFL is developing a schedule that could be truncated, if need be.  The first four weeks are not expected to have any divisional games in case the season is delayed and if they need to contract to 14 or 12 weeks (without byes).  We won't see Dallas or the Redskins in the first 4 weeks.

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2 hours ago, Bigredtuna said:

Wally,

Thanks for the effort to put this out there, and for all your attention to scheduling and broadcast issues.  One problem, though, is that I think you did not consider that the NFL is developing a schedule that could be truncated, if need be.  The first four weeks are not expected to have any divisional games in case the season is delayed and if they need to contract to 14 or 12 weeks (without byes).  We won't see Dallas or the Redskins in the first 4 weeks.

I'm not sure that's 100% correct. I believe that one of the scenarios they are going to account for is moving the first couple weeks of the schedule to the back end. So the week 2 schedule could end up being the "final" week. So it's possible that week 2 might be ALL divisional games.

They are also going to have one week scheduled (probably week 3) where every team is going to be playing a team that has the same scheduled bye week later in the year. That way they can just move those games to the appropriate weeks later on.

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I don't know about the schedule, but I see a 16-0 season......:ph34r:

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4 minutes ago, birdman#12 said:

I don't know about the schedule, but I see a 16-0 season......:ph34r:

19-0

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I'm just gonna go out on a limb here and say weeks 4-10 don't play out that way and we have more 1pm games than listed. 

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I would love some cardinals in December for a nice road trip and escape **** Philly weather.

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On 4/27/2020 at 7:15 PM, Wallyhorse said:

Carrying over from the old board this thread.  Obviously, this was written before we knew about the Coronavirus and how much it has changed everything but I am carrying it over in tact from the old board.

For those who don't know, these are the Eagles opponents in 2020:

Full Divisions: AFC North and NFC West
NFC Division Winners (since we won our division): vs. NFC South, at NFC North

Home: Bengals, Ravens, Rams, Seahawks, Saints, CowboysGiantsRedskins

Away: Browns, Steelers, 49ers, Cardinals, Packers, CowboysGiantsRedskins

Keep in mind the following (and I have to keep this in because until we hear otherwise MLB will likely try to maintain as much of the original schedule as possible, though I'm sure the NFL may be working with MLB as MLB could wind up running MUCH later than normal due to the virus):

Eagles likely must open at home Sunday 9/13 since the Phillies are on the road at the Braves that day and while they could open Monday 9/14, that's an off day for the Phils that likely has to be kept in reserve in case the Phils have to make up a home rainout that day.

Eagles can only play at home on Thursday 9/17 in Week 2 (otherwise they must play on the road), and that again likely has to be held in reserve in case the Phils have to make up a home rainout that day.

Eagles can play at home in Week 3 on Sunday 9/27 only as the Phillies finish the regular season at Nationals Park against the Nationals (Monday 9/28 has to be held in reserve in case a rainout makeup or one-game playoff has to be played that day, Thursday 9/24 is a 4:05 game against the Mets).

Eagles likely will be on the road Weeks 4-6 as I suspect the NFL will again assume the Phillies make the MLB Playoffs.

With that in mind:

Week 1: Sunday 9/13 vs. Seahawks, 8:20 PM ET on NBC (This to me is the first part of a three-part make-up to the Eagles for this past season's Week 12 flex-out that if had not been done could have resulted in unintended consequences for CBS and the NFL due to the political climate we are currently in, this is also possible because the Mariners are at home that day so the Seahawks must open on the road unless they win it all).

Week 2: Sunday 9/20 at Redskins, 1:00 PM ET on FOX 

Week 3: Sunday 9/27 vs. Bengals, 1:00 PM ET on CBS

Week 4: Sunday 10/4 at Cowboys, 4:25 PM ET on FOX

Week 5: Sunday 10/11 at Cardinals, 4:05 or 4:25 PM ET on FOX

Week 6: Sunday 10/18 at 49ers, 4:25 PM ET on CBS (I suspect this will be a cross-flex as the main late game that week on CBS, I have it where the Eagles spend both the week before and after the Cardinals game in Arizona, allowing for such a road trip)

Week 7: Sunday 10/25 BYE WEEK (this stretch gives MLB complete control over the MLB playoff schedule if the Phillies did get to the World Series).

Week 8: Sunday 11/1 vs. Saints, 4:25 PM ET on FOX

Week 9: Sunday 11/8 at Packers, 8:20 PM ET on NBC

Week 10: Monday 11/16 at Browns, 8:15 PM ET on ESPN

Week 11: Sunday 11/22 vs. Redskins, 1:00 PM ET on FOX

Week 12: Thursday 11/26 (Thanksgiving) vs. Ravens, 8:20 PM ET on NBC (second part of a three-part make-up of this past season's Week 12 flexout)

Week 13: Thursday 12/3 vs. Cowboys, 8:20 PM ET on FOX (possibly FOX only, as we discovered this season FOX does have the right to do an exclusive Thursday Night game without NFL Network as did happen one week this season during a dispute between FOX and Dish Network, this the third part of a three-part makeup of the week 12 flexout)

Week 14: Sunday 12/13 at Giants, 1:00 PM ET on FOX

Week 15: Sunday 12/20 at Steelers, 4:25 PM ET on CBS (cross-flexed from FOX)

Week 16: Sunday 12/27 vs. Rams, 4:25 PM ET on FOX

Week 17: Sunday 1/3 vs. Giants, Time and Network TBD

Brutal stretch to start but I do have the Eagles finishing with five-of-seven at home and after Week 10 only plane ride is in-state to Pittsburgh.  

No Tuesday or Wednesday games?!  I thought I lost you forever Wally when the old boards closed down!  

Anyway I am not sure what to believe there have been reports that weeks 1-4 are going to be NFC vs. AFC matchups but then there's a leak containing the whole entire bucs schedule that has them opening up against ATL on MNF.  I guess we'll find out officially tonight!   

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I’m predicting week 1 1pm hosting the Bengals. Apparently first 4 weeks are out of conference incase the league needs pushed back 

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6 minutes ago, EaglePhan1986 said:

I’m predicting week 1 1pm hosting the Bengals. Apparently first 4 weeks are out of conference incase the league needs pushed back 

That’s the rumor, but there’s also rumors the Bucs are opening against Atlanta, and KC is opening vs the Texans. 
 

One way or another, someone is going to be wrong on the internet. 

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I predict @Wallyhorse has already contacted local law makers and boosters to verify the schedule does not conflict with any nerd conventions scheduled in those areas.

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Sounds like eagles @ skins week 1.  
 

birds @ packers week 13 is what I’ve seen

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Why do we have to go to Green Bay this year? It's their turn to come here. We went there last year. 

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1 hour ago, RUEagle said:

birds @ packers week 13 is what I’ve seen

Green Bay in December. That sucks. 

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