Maxxcash The Philadelphia Eagles exceeded all expectations last year under second-year head coach Nick Sirianni. After a first-round exit in the previous season’s playoffs, the Eagles took a massive step forward, dominating the regular season en route to a Super Bowl appearance. How does the Eagles’ schedule shape up in 2023?
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Philadelphia Eagles Schedule and Opponents
While we won’t find out the complete Eagles’ 2023 schedule until the official NFL schedule release on Thursday, we already know they will face the Giants on Christmas Day, as well as their full list of opponents for the upcoming season.
- Week 13: vs. San Francisco 49ers
FOX | 4:25 p.m. ET (Sunday, Dec. 3) - Week 16: at New York Giants
FOX | 4:30 P.M. ET (Monday, Dec. 25)
Home Games
- Arizona Cardinals
- Buffalo Bills
- Dallas Cowboys
- Miami Dolphins
- Minnesota Vikings
- New York Giants
- San Francisco 49ers
- Washington Commanders
Away Games
- Dallas Cowboys
- New York Giants
- Los Angeles Rams
- Kansas City Chiefs
- New England Patriots
- New York Jets
- Seattle Seahawks
- Tampa Bay Buccaneers
- Washington Commanders
As always, the Eagles will battle their division opponents both at home and on the road. As part of the rotational schedule, the Eagles and the NFC East will take on the entirety of the AFC East and NFC West.
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The remaining three games on their schedule will come against the two NFC teams with a corresponding finish in their divisions. For the Eagles, that would be division winners. The same process is applied for the “17th-game crossover,” which is against the AFC West. The winner of that division last season was the Kansas City Chiefs.
Eagles Strength of Schedule
Typically, the previous year’s Super Bowl teams are saddled with quite a difficult schedule, but things appear to be working out a bit more in the Eagles’ favor. Based on projected win totals, Philadelphia has the 16th-toughest schedule amongst NFL teams. Their opponents have a combined average projected win total of 8.68.
PFN’s Strength of Schedule has the Eagles with the sixth hardest schedule in the league.
Eagles Record Prediction
The Eagles entered this year with one of the most loaded rosters in the league on both sides of the ball from top to bottom. Since their Super Bowl defeat, they’ve only gotten better.
Prior to his shoulder injury last season, Jalen Hurts was the betting favorite to win MVP. This team is poised to win a bunch of games again in 2023.
Fortuitously, Philadelphia has a schedule that is average in difficulty, which is quite uncommon for division winners. As we know all too well, anything can happen in the NFL. That’s why they play the games. With that said, the Eagles have a whopping nine games they should easily win.
They’ll probably drop one of them, as that’s how football goes, but make no mistake about it, the Eagles will be one of the winningest teams in the NFL this season.
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Given how good of a team they are, there’s not a single game we can say the Eagles are likely to lose. The rest of their games could reasonably go either way.
In previous years, facing the AFC East would mean losing to the Patriots, but either beating or having a strong chance to beat everyone else. This year, it projects to be one of the best divisions in football.
After 14 wins last season (tied with the Chiefs for most in the league), it would be unrealistic to project the Eagles to get there again. Even so, barring catastrophic injuries, Philadelphia is a virtual lock to win at least 10 games and make the playoffs.
Their Vegas win total is currently at 10.5, with the over heavily juiced. They have the talent to win 13-14 games again, but their absolute floor should be 10-11.
Possible Eagles Prime-Time Games
Last season, the Eagles made five appearances in prime time. In addition to their annual Thursday night game, the Eagles had the privilege of playing twice on both Sunday and Monday Night Football.
Divisional games are always good bets. The Eagles are a virtual lock to have at least one intradivisional prime-time game. Last season, two of their five prime-time games were against divisional opponents. But realistically, any of the games between the Cowboys, Giants, Eagles, and Commanders could be in prime time.
Given that the Eagles look like they will be title contenders for the next few years, we can absolutely be certain they will appear in multiple prime-time games this season. The only question is how many.
It seems likely that the Eagles and Cowboys face off in prime time. There will probably be one more divisional matchup as well. The rest of the Eagles’ prime-time games could be against a number of their opponents.
Games against the Bills, Dolphins, Vikings, 49ers, Jets, and Seahawks are all candidates to be under the bright lights. And if I were a betting man, I would place a heavy wager on the Eagles and Chiefs’ Super Bowl rematch to be a prime-time contest.
Regardless of how it shakes out, NFL fans can expect to see plenty of Eagles games in prime time this season.
