Mark Willard is one of the hosts at 95.7 the Game out in San Francisco, which is run by former 97.5 the Fanatic program director Matt Nahigian. It’s the same station that features The Morning Roast with whiners Bonta Hill and Joe Shasky, though Hill left the station and is no longer in sports talk radio.

Said Willard about Eagles fans:

There’s some truth in what he says about the playoffs. Of course the stadium is going to be loud in January. You would hope that any NFL stadium is loud during the postseason. It’s kind of like the Chris...

49ers fans are going to Craft Hall on Saturday for an “invasion” party. This is the information page on Ticketmaster:

Craft Hall is the brewery near Rivers Casino. Used to be the original Yards location back in the day, before Yards moved to Spring Garden Street.

I don’t know if this is the same fan group that was turned down by Ladder 15 earlier in the week, but Niners fans will be in town no matter what and they need somewhere to go. Jail would have been preferable, but this is what they ended up with.

Naturally, you get a...

San Francisco fans already crying about the officials, three days before the game starts:

Imagine thinking that Williamsport has anything to do with the Philadelphia region. It’s three hours away. You can drive from Williamsport to Buffalo, New York City, and Pittsburgh in almost the same time it would take to get to South Philly. It’s basically the same distance between San Francisco and Lake Tahoe. Anything north of Allentown or west of Lancaster and it’s open season in terms of NFL fandom. You’ll find Steelers fans, Giants fans, Ravens fans, even some poser Niners fans in Pennsyltucky.

Second, there’s...

Rap Sheet has an update on Trent Williams’ status:

“Trent Williams, one of the best tackles of the last decade, maybe the best tackle of the last decade, I think it’s fair to say his status is in doubt…”

Ricky Pearsall is also a question mark for Sunday, and it goes without saying that if one or both of those guys can’t go, it’s a huge positive for the Eagles. Both were DNPs on Wednesday’s practice report.

We asked our in-house A.I. go through the Sportradar database and pull San Francisco’s win/loss records with and without Williams, who joined the...

If you’re a little iffy about Sunday’s game and looking for something to feel good about, make it this:

It’s been a long time since they’ve squared off. That 2018 game was a lost season for the Niners, and they hosted Chicago in Week 16 and mustered three field goals against the Mitch Trubisky team that wound up losing to the Eagles in the playoffs (double doink game). Fangio’s Bears had Khalil Mack and prime Roquan Smith and more than a handful of studs. They allowed 241 passing yards but just 47 on the ground to Jeff Wilson and Matt...

Center City bar Ladder 15 says it turned down the opportunity to host more than 100 visiting San Francisco fans this weekend:

“After very little consideration, we cannot in good conscience host anything that has to do with the 49ers. We’re Birds fans til the end. We Bleed Green. We back our team even when it comes at a cost. Only reason I wish you luck, is because the 49ers are going to need it. Enjoy your time in the City of Brotherly Love.”

Hear hear!

This is also a public safety issue. 49ers fans are known to do...

Good pull here from Anthony DiBona. This is from Anthony Gargano’s show on PHLY:

A short time later, Baldy tweeted “Lane is playing,” then deleted it:

The only follow ups are a couple of replies to fans in which Baldy says: “i never said he isn’t (playing) nobody is doing more to make it happen than Lane.” That doesn’t exactly match what he said on Gargano’s show, does it? And then he deleted the correction anyway.

This is kind of an odd one, because the reporting initially suggested that Johnson would be good to go in Week 17 or 18....

We’ve turned the page from Sunday’s loss and we’re moving on from Tanner McKee talk and the unending arguments over whether or not Nick Sirianni made the right decision to rest the starters in Week 18.

Now begins the postseason, with a visit from the 12-5 San Francisco 49ers.

The two key matchups defining this game are so obvious that they jump off the page and smack you right across the face:

1. Elite Eagles secondary vs. Elite Niners passing attack

Birds fans are in consensus that if the team goes on a repeat Super Bowl run, it will...

After the Eagles lost to the Commanders on Sunday, it sounded like someone fell asleep and began snoring on NBC Sports Philadelphia’s postgame show:

It sure as hell sounds like snoring. Readers thought it was someone on the panel breathing heavily, but there’s definitely an audible snoring type of sound at the 17 second portion of the clip.

Anyway, the WIP afternoon show brought this up on Monday, called Ashlyn Sullivan, who works at both WIP and NBCSP, and she said the following:

*“It was (Reuben Frank), and it wasn’t a snore, it was – we’re scrambling, the...

According to Comcast, the WiFi at Xfinity Mobile Arena is being extended into the venue’s parking lots.

A spokesperson told Crossing Broad that: “Xfinity Mobile and Comcast Business Mobile customers will auto-connect to ‘Xfinity Mobile’ WiFi,” while “fans with other mobile carriers can also take advantage of these amazing speeds when they connect to ‘Free Xfinity Premium’ WiFi.”

This will be in place for the Eagles vs. Niners playoff game on Sunday. It should be good in the lots around the arena and Stateside Live!, so A through H primarily. Maybe you will be able to get the service across...

Saw a lot of this going around on Sunday and Monday, perpetuated in particular by Crossing Broad staffers:

Look, fair enough. McKee wasn’t amazing. He threw a bad pick and missed some open receivers. He didn’t exactly look like the second coming of Joe Montana out there, and the incessant disrespect shown to Jalen Hurts via “McKee should start” chatter has always been annoying.

Counterpoint:

Didn’t McKee look pretty good when DeVonta Smith was in the game? Who would have thought! You put a Heisman winner and stud receiver on the field and the quarterback plays a whole lot better...

Happy New Year! By god, it’s the year of our lord 2026 and this time things are going to be different. SURE, you’ve said that to yourself every single January for the last two decades, but this time it’s for real!

Those dusty running shoes that have been sitting next to the front door for the last 12 months? We’re strapping them on and running around the block a few times before calling it quits. Can’t burn ourselves out this quickly. That pesky heart valve problem the quote/unquote “doctors” told you to fix or you may quote/unquote “die” a horrendous...