Eagles react to drawing the Packers in the wild card round originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
The Eagles already beat the Packers once this season.
Four months ago. On another continent.
“I feel like a lot of stuff has changed,” center Cam Jurgens said. “I feel like it’s been a year since we played them last … in Brazil, my God. Reset and get ready for this postseason.”
Because the Eagles’ backups dispatched the lowly Giants, 20-13, in just 2 hours and 53 minutes on Sunday afternoon, the Packers-Bears and Commanders-Cowboys games were still finishing up as the Eagles celebrated their 14th win in the home locker room at the Linc.
So some players didn’t even know the Eagles drew the Packers in the wild card round until they heard the news from reporters. But it’s official: The 2-seeded Eagles will host the 7-seeded Packers on Sunday at 4:30 p.m. in the NFC wild card round.
A rematch of the Eagles’ 34-29 victory over the Packers on Sept. 6 in São Paulo, Brazil.
But a lot has changed since then. For both teams.
“Everyone makes their adjustments throughout the season, tries to figure out who they are as a team, as a defense, as an offense,” linebacker Zack Baun said. “You throw in wrinkles here and there and you see what sticks. We’ve changed and I know they have too.”
After that Week 1 matchup at Neo Quimica Arena, the Eagles rolled to a 14-win season and an NFC East title. Meanwhile, the Packers got battle-tested in the tough NFC North and got into the playoffs as a wild card team.
This figures to be a good matchup for the first round.
“Yeah, both teams are different from that day until now, no doubt,” head coach Nick Sirianni said. “We’ll use that. You use everything. That’s something that when we go play a team that we played the previous year, we’ll use that, too. That’s from year to year. So of course we’ll use that. They’ll use that. We understand that. It’s a really good team. Really well coached.”
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