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In Week 15 of the 2025 NFL season, the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Commanders both secured wins, albeit in very different ways.
For the Eagles, their home showdown against the Las Vegas Raiders was the opposite of a trap game, with the better team imposing their will on an undermatched squad desperate for the regular season to end. When all the dust had settled, the Eagles ended up scoring almost half as many points, 31, as the Raiders had total yards in the game, 75, leading to a 31-0 victory the likes of which Las Vegas fans hadn’t witnessed in their lifetimes if they were born after the Vietnam War.
The run game was effective, as was Jalen Hurts as both a rusher and a passer, and the Eagles’ defense tee’d off on Kenny Pickett all night, making his return to the East Coast an afternoon to forget after a series of sacks, hard hits, and rough sledding down the field.
And as for the Commanders? Well, they faced off against a New York Giants team that also wasn’t particularly interested in winning, as doing so would take them out of the 1st overall pick in the 2026 NFL Draft. The two teams exchanged blows with a collection of players young and old, and in the end, the Commanders outlasted New York, affording Jaxson Dart another taste of defeat while better setting his team up for success in the future.
With the fate of the NFC East on the line, as if the Eagles win, they become the first team to go back-to-back since 2004, both teams will have their eyes on the future, only one is looking toward January and the other to April. Unless Marcus Mariota decides to get even against his former team and throw the game of his life in a true trap game upset, this feels like the less eventful matchup on Week 16’s Saturday slate.
The last time the Eagles played the Commanders, Philadelphia dominated Washington to an incredible degree, scoring 55 points on 459 total offensive yards to punch their ticket to the Super Bowl.
In Week 16, it’s hard to imagine a world where the Eagles put up 55, as their season-high is only 38, and if the game gets out of bounds, they will likely turn to Tanner McKee once more in order to guarantee nothing horrible happens to Hurts.
And yet, the Commanders are not what you would call a dominant defensive team after showing plenty of promise last season, ranking 29th in passing defense and 28th in rushing defense through the first 15 weeks of the season. The Eagles, too, have taken a step back in 2025, with their usual potent rushing offense falling to 19th but their passing offense improving to 22nd overall. While the results haven’t exclusively been positive, the Eagles have gone for at least 200 passing yards and 130 rushing yards in their past two games,...
