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Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

Football at Four: Explaining How NFL Put Together Eagles Schedule

Inside the Birds: A Philadelphia Eagles Podcast

Inside The Birds

Sports, Football

4.6910 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2026

⏱️ 16 minutes

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On Friday's Football at Four on 973 ESPN South Jersey, Inside the Birds' Adam Caplan gave intel on how the #Eagles schedule came together this season and detailed some interesting background on how the NFL sees them overall.

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0:00.0

Right now, we're going to take a look at the news and notes from Adam Kaplan, some of the things that stood out to him with the Eagle's schedule, which started to drip and drab yesterday all throughout the day.

0:13.2

And now, Adam, we know when, why, how, where, and what time.

0:17.9

And it's a, it's a doozy, man.

0:19.5

They're all over the place.

0:20.6

Eight standalone games. Yeah,'s a, it's a dozy, man. They're all over the place. Eight stand-alone games.

0:23.4

Yeah, and Mike, look, the situation with Eagles is this from a league standpoint.

0:29.2

The NFL believes Eagles are what we call a national team. I've talked about this before.

0:34.1

They've a really good national following. And as long as they don't, they're not really bad a season before, like in 2020,

0:41.1

they're going to be on prime time a lot.

0:42.9

So what happened, after the Peterson was fired, after the 2020 season, they only got two primetime games for Nick Sriani's first season.

0:52.5

Well, they made the playoffs. The league's always

0:55.6

like them. They put them all on prime time, five times, 23, six times, 24, four times, last year

1:01.8

five times and this year five times. So they're a national team. They're very, very popular.

1:06.8

Now, to me, they're a top five team when you talk about natural exposure.

1:12.4

And not only that, Mike, this is an incredible fact.

1:17.5

Nobody's played more Monday Night Football Games since 2000 than the Eagles.

1:22.9

They played in 44.

1:23.8

That's hard to believe.

1:25.2

Very popular.

1:26.0

Yes, we know primetime games, but now you've got all

1:28.7

these other standalone games. You've got Christmas Eve and you've got Thanksgiving. We'll get

1:32.3

into all that. But five primetime games, this is the obvious that during the Syriani era, the

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