PREVIEW – Week 18: A Week 18 With No Stakes; Eagles Take on Josh Johnson and Commanders
Scheduling 16 Division matchups for the final week of the regular season continues to be a fight in the league.
With only TWO of the fourteen playoff positions up for grabs, they will be decided between the Ravens/Steelers Sunday night game and the Panthers/Buccaneers (with some help from Atlanta) Sunday afternoon.
The Eagles will come into Sunday almost locked into the No. 3 seed, but with a bit of scoreboard help, they could play Washington and see them leap into the No. 2 seed. A Lions win over Ben Johnson‘s Bears would give the Eagles a need to compete against the Commanders, a team out for revenge from just two weeks ago.
A Vengeful Rematch
The decision to go for two points, putting the Eagles up by 19 late in the 4th quarter, was the right one. The Eagles had already missed two field goals, taking 6 points off the board of what ended as a 29-18 game.
The ever-so clueless Dan Quinn, who hasn’t learned from his time in Atlanta, part of the comical 28-3 Falcons Super Bowl loss. Or multiple years as the Cowboys‘ defensive coordinator, giving up 48 points to a 7th-seed Packers team in his last game on the sideline for “America’s team.”
Upset over the Eagles’ decision to go for 2, Quinn stated:
“If that’s how they want to get down, we’ll see them again in two weeks.”
Feels very threatening for a Week 18 division opponent matchup, which leads to the question…
Did Dan Quinn forget that the Eagles clinched the NFC East title with their Week 16 victory at Northwest Stadium?
The Commanders’ season was realistically over by their Bye Week (if not earlier). Sitting at 3-8, losing their franchise QB for weeks at a time, rushing him back from numerous injuries just to be sidelined again feels like something a desperate team would do.
Add injuries to Tyler Biadasz, Marcus Mariota, Laremy Tunsil, Sam Cosmi, Trey Amos, and many others, including Zach Ertz, Marshon Lattimore, and Austin Ekeler. The #1 thing the Commanders should be playing for on Sunday is draft position.
7th overall is a great place to be for a team that was only 22 points from punching their ticket to a Super Bowl less than 12 months ago.
If 17th-year Josh Johnson is able to lead the Commanders to a nothingburger victory against Tanner McKee, and what we should expect to be most of the Eagles’ backup & reserve players.
Then I guess we can give Dan Quinn & co. their flowers of “only beating an Eagles backup QB” 2 years running.
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