PHILADELPHIA — The NFL schedule makers gave the Eagles one Super Bowl rematch to begin the season and another to start a daunting stretch midway through it.
The Eagles will open the season in Foxborough, Mass., against the Patriots (4:25 p.m.) with Tom Brady in attendance to celebrate his retirement with the New England fans. They’ll host the Minnesota Vikings the following Thursday night for their home opener and will travel to Tampa Bay to play the Buccaneers on Monday Night Football in Week 3.
Things stay relatively light for a few more weeks; the Eagles will host the Washington Commanders Week 4 and then travel to Los Angeles to play the rebuilding Rams the following Sunday.
The two-game stretch that follows features a Week 5 trip up I-95 to play Aaron Rodgers and the ascending New York Jets and then a home game against the Miami Dolphins’ high-speed offense.
Two division games, one at FedEx Field against the Commanders and then a home game against the Dallas Cowboys, give way to the Eagles’ Week 10 bye. The bye week will be a much-needed reprieve before a grueling stretch of games that features six consecutive meetings with 2022 playoff teams.
The stretch begins on Nov. 20 with the much-anticipated Super Bowl LVII rematch against the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium Monday night. The Eagles will host the Buffalo Bills and then the San Francisco 49ers over the next two weeks. The latter will serve as an NFC championship rematch, which the Niners seem eager for given multiple players’ comments during the offseason about wanting another shot at the Eagles with a healthy starting quarterback.
It doesn’t ease up much from there, the Eagles will travel to AT&T Stadium to play the Dallas Cowboys in Week 14 and then go cross-country to the Seattle Seahawks the following weekend. The combined record for the five teams in this stretch was 61-23 last season, with all but the Seahawks cracking double-digit wins.
The Eagles will finish out the season with two games against the New York Giants sandwiched between a Week 17 home reunion with Jonathan Gannon and the Arizona Cardinals. The first of the two Giants matchups will be at 4:30 p.m. on Christmas Day at Lincoln Financial Field. The latter will close out the season Jan. 2.
The Eagles have the toughest strength of schedule based on last year’s standings. Their opponents had a .566 winning percentage in 2022.
Given last year’s run to the Super Bowl and the expectations going into this season, it should come as no surprise that the Eagles are already slated for at least five prime-time games with the potential for late-season flexes. Including last year’s Christmas Eve game against the Dallas Cowboys, the Eagles were in six prime-time slots last regular season.
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(AP) — Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs will kick off the season against the upstart Detroit Lions in a matchup of high-powered offenses.
Rodgers will make his Jets debut in the first Monday night game of the season against the Bills and later faces the Dolphins in the NFL’s first Black Friday game on Nov. 24.
Thanks to Rodgers’ arrival in the Big Apple, the Jets will have six nationally televised games, including their first Sunday night game since 2011 when they take on the Chiefs on Oct. 1.
“It’s not going to be monotonous with all the 1 o’clock games we’re used to,” Jets coach Robert Saleh said on NFL Network.
Coming off their second championship in four seasons, the Chiefs will host the Lions on Sept. 7 on “Thursday Night Football.” The Lions finished 9-8 last season after a 1-6 start and knocked Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers out of the playoffs with a 20-16 victory at Lambeau Field in the final regular-season game.
Mahomes, the two-time NFL MVP, led the Chiefs to a 38-35 comeback win over the Eagles in the Super Bowl.
Fans will get their first look at Rodgers in his new green-and-white No. 8 Jets jersey when New York hosts Josh Allen and the Bills in an AFC East matchup on Sept. 11.
The NFL released the full schedule Thursday night after revealing five international games and several others earlier in the day and Wednesday.
Mahomes and the Chiefs will host AFC West rival Las Vegas in the early game on Christmas Day and the Dallas Cowboys will visit San Francisco on “Sunday Night Football” in Week 5.
On Wednesday, the NFL announced that Trevor Lawrence and the Jacksonville Jaguars will become the first NFL team to play two international games in the same season when they spend back-to-back weeks in London.
The Jaguars will host the Atlanta Falcons at Wembley Stadium on Oct. 1 and visit the Bills at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Oct. 8. The Jaguars were set to play two designated home games in London in 2020 but the pandemic canceled those plans.
The Tennessee Titans will host the Baltimore Ravens at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Oct. 15. The Chiefs will host the Dolphins in Germany at Eintracht Frankfurt Stadium on Nov. 5. The Patriots will host the Indianapolis Colts on Nov. 12, also in Frankfurt.
The Chiefs will host Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals in a rematch of the AFC championship game in Week 17.
EAGLES 2023 SCHEDULE
Week 1: Eagles at Patriots, Sunday, Sept. 10
Week 2: Eagles vs. Vikings, Thursday, Sept. 14
Week 3: Eagles at Buccaneers, Monday, Sept. 25
Week 4: Eagles vs. Commanders, Sunday, Oct. 1
Week 5: Eagles at Rams, Sunday, Oct. 8
Week 6: Eagles at Jets, Sunday, Oct. 15
Week 7: Eagles vs. Dolphins, Sunday, Oct. 22
Week 8: Eagles at Commanders, Sunday, Oct. 29
Week 9: Eagles vs. Cowboys, Sunday, Nov. 5
Week 10: BYE
Week 11: Eagles at Chiefs, Monday, Nov. 20
Week 12: Eagles vs. Bills, Sunday, Nov. 26
Week 13: Eagles vs. 49ers, Sunday, Dec. 3
Week 14: Eagles at Cowboys, Sunday, Dec. 10
Week 15: Eagles at Seahawks, Sunday, Dec. 17
Week 16: Eagles vs. Giants, Monday, Dec. 25
Week 17: Eagles vs. Cardinals, Sunday, Dec. 31
Week 18: Eagles at Giants, Sunday, Jan. 7
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