Eagles lose to Commanders, will host 49ers in wild-card round
Eagle Eye: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast
NBC Sports Philadelphia
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The regular season is over. |
| 0:17.0 | Next up, the playoffs. |
| 0:18.4 | Rube, how are you doing? |
| 0:19.6 | Doing well. |
| 0:24.7 | The Eagles lose this one in week week 18 24 to 17 to the washington commanders they came into today with a chance to help themselves in the |
| 0:29.7 | seeding they needed some help they got the help they didn't help themselves they are the three seed |
| 0:34.8 | they will host the san franc Francisco 49ers next week. |
| 0:38.2 | Yeah, it was a great opportunity. It was right there for them. I never thought they would, |
| 0:44.1 | you know, we talked about the nightmare scenarios. And one of them was that, that, uh, |
| 0:48.0 | Detroit upsets the bears and then the Eagles can't beat the commanders. I never dreamed that part |
| 0:53.2 | of it, the equation would happen. |
| 0:55.4 | You're facing a quarterback who's won one game in 17 seasons and just let them run up and down the field on you. |
| 1:04.2 | That was pretty disappointing. |
| 1:06.4 | It occurred to me walking up the steps. |
| 1:08.6 | If the two seed was still first round by he plays the starters |
| 1:11.6 | right because oh it's interesting you're playing for the you're going to get a buy with a win |
| 1:16.8 | yeah you would earn the rest yeah so i would i would think if if they still had the two buys that |
| 1:22.8 | he plays the starters and and goes for the win but wasn't to be to be. Detroit did, like you said, they did |
| 1:29.1 | their end of the bargain. They play tough. They went on the field goal with two seconds left. |
| 1:34.2 | And the Eagles just can't beat a bad Washington team with a third string quarterback. It's |
| 1:39.0 | disappointing. It is. This is the Eagle Eye podcast, by the way, brought to you by Nissan, |
| 1:42.6 | Ruben Frank, and Dave Zengaro. We will turn our attention to the 49ers at some point and the playoff game that will happen next weekend, the wild card round game, the three seed versus the six seed, a fun game between two really good teams, a 12 win 49ers team that had a chance to get the number one seed in the NFC on Saturday against an |
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