The 2017 regular season schedule was released on Thursday. Here is a look at some of the best moments from historic games against this year's opponents ...
November 15, 2010 - QB Michael Vick accounts for six total touchdowns in one of the most brilliant single-game performances in Monday Night Football history which resulted in a 59-28 victory.
September 27, 2009 - TE Brent Celek hauls in eight catches for 104 yards and a touchdown in a 34-14 win over the Kansas City Chiefs.
October 12, 2014 - DE Vinny Curry takes down QB Eli Manning as the Eagles shut out the New York Giants by a score of 27-0.
October 23, 2005 - S Quintin Mikell blocks this Nate Kaeding field goal attempt, which was then returned by CB Matt Ware 65 yards for the game-winning touchdown.
October 23, 2005 - CB Matt Ware returned a blocked field goal 65 yards for the game-winning touchdown over the then-San Diego Chargers.
November 27, 2008 - On Thanksgiving night, RB Brian Westbrook accounted for four total touchdowns in a 48-20 rout of the Cardinals.
December 4, 2006 - CB Lito Sheppard thwarted a late rally with this interception in the final minute to secure a 27-24 victory.
November 12, 1990 - "The Body Bag Game." The Redskins lost six players to injury which prompted safety William Frizzell to ask the Washington bench, "You need any more body bags?" The Eagles won 28-14.
October 2, 1994 - RB Charlie Garner rushed for 111 yards and two touchdowns in his NFL debut as the Eagles slapped the 49ers, 40-8. It was San Francisco's worst loss in eight years.
December 27, 2009 - TE Brent Celek gained 141 yards on four catches and scored on a 47-yard touchdown as the Eagles beat the Denver Broncos, 30-27.
December 25, 2006 - "Merry Christmas, Philadelphia!" QB Jeff Garcia celebrates a 23-7 victory over the Dallas Cowboys.
November 15, 2004 - WR Terrell Owens had a monster game hauling in six catches for 134 yards and three touchdowns as the Eagles slayed the Cowboys in prime time with a 49-21 Monday night rout.
November 18, 2015 - LB Jordan Hicks returned a Matt Cassel pass 67 yards for a touchdown helping the Eagles beat the Cowboys 33-27 in overtime.
January 19, 2002 - DE Hugh Douglas sacks Jim "Shane" Miller, as the Eagles beat up on the Bears 33-19 to advance to the NFC Championship Game.
September 23, 2001 - In the first game following the 9/11 attacks, S Tim Hauck, now the safeties coach, holds the flag during the national anthem.
December 18, 1949 - The Eagles win their second straight NFL Championship by a 14-0 score over the Los Angeles Rams as RB Steve Van Buren gets the game ball after carrying the ball 31 times for 196 yards on a muddy field.
November 19, 1978 - The Miracle of the Meadowlands. Instead of just taking a knee to run out the clock, Giants QB Joe Pisarcik fumbled the handoff to RB Larry Csonka. CB Herman Edwards picked it up and returned the ball for the game-winning touchdown.
October 19, 2003 - RB Brian Westbrook's game-winning 84-yard punt return with 1:34 left gave the Eagles a critical win that sparked a nine-game win streak.
January 11, 2009 - QB Donovan McNabb ran out of bounds and picked up the phone on the Giants' sideline during the Eagles' 23-11 victory in the Divisional Round of the 2008 playoffs. The Giants were not only the defending Super Bowl champions, but the No. 1 seed in the NFC.
December 19, 2010 - WR DeSean Jackson scores the first walk-off punt return in NFL history as the Eagles erased a 21-point fourth-quarter deficit in a 38-31 victory.
November 3, 2013 - QB Nick Foles throws one of his seven touchdown passes, tying an NFL record, in the 49-20 win over the Raiders.
January 11, 1981 - RB Wilbert Montgomery 42-yard touchdown run in the first quarter set the tone for the Eagles' 20-7 victory to secure the franchise's first trip to the Super Bowl.
December 28, 2008 - It was a Hall of Fame performance by S Brian Dawkins as the Eagles throttled the Dallas Cowboys 44-6 to secure the NFC's final playoff spot.
At first glance, the 2017 schedule is one of the most unusual the Eagles have ever been given. They open with road games at Washington and Kansas City, play four of their first six away from Lincoln Financial Field, and later in the season have a killer three weeks at Seattle, at Los Angeles Rams, and at the New York Giants.
Christmas night against Oakland? That's going to be a wild one. Five prime-time games, with one on Thursday and two each on Sunday and Monday nights.
Three straight games at home against Washington, San Francisco, and Denver before a mid-November bye week? The weather should be plenty perfect for the fans at Lincoln Financial Field.
Strange, indeed.
But the schedule is as the schedule does and so we have some definition to the 2017 regular season. We know the where and the who and the when. Now it's time to find out a way to go out and win.
Does it really matter where the Eagles play or when they play or that they're going to travel roughly 256,043 round-trip miles this season? No, not at all.
This much we know: The Eagles have to get right into it in the NFC East on September 10 at Washington, a place that has not been very kind to the Eagles since Chip Kelly's debut in 2013. The Eagles put on a show that night at FedEx Field, beating the Redskins and serving notice that the Kelly offense would change the way the game would be played at the NFL level – for about a year and a half. And then it all fell apart. Just like the Eagles at FedEx Field, where they lost in 2014, 2015, and in 2016.
After that, the Eagles play in Kansas City, taking a 3-1 lifetime record at hallowed Arrowhead Stadium. Then it's the home opener against the Giants and a road game at the (ahem) Los Angeles Chargers and a home game against Arizona, and then a Thursday night game at Carolina followed by a Monday Night Football game at Lincoln Financial Field against Washington.
also had time with the media on Thursday and then afterward talked about what it will mean to have wide receivers Alshon Jeffery and Torrey Smith with the offense and the impact they will make.
"It was frustrating last year to lead the league in time of possession and then struggle as much as we did in the red zone," Ertz said. "We just didn't score enough touchdowns. Now we go out and get Torrey, who can be an explosive player and get us some chunk plays, and we add Alshon, who is going to be a weapon in the red zone. He can go up and get it. That's exciting. I think those two are going to command a lot of attention from defenses and open things up for me and Jordan (Matthews). I think we've improved a lot offensively."
It's very hard to argue with that optimism.
- Defensive end Brandon Graham was an alternate to the Pro Bowl after the 2016 season, so he's still got an individual goal or two in mind for 2017. "I would love to be in the Pro Bowl, so I have to go out and earn it," he said. "You know, being in this defense for a second season is going to help. I think we're going to get after it up front. We have some attacking guys up there. It's going to be a lot of fun."
- There is still one more week to go in Phase One of the team's offseason conditioning program before the players are permitted to take the field for any kind of organized work. So, we're still a ways away from salivating over the Wentz-to-Jeffery connection we're bound to see.
- Will the Eagles draft an offensive lineman? It's hard to see that they will. The Eagles have a whopping 17 linemen listed on their roster, and of that 17 there are 12 players who have started games in the NFL. The Eagles have covered themselves very nicely along the offensive line between adding players last year in the draft and after the draft and adding Chance Warmack and retaining Stefen Wisniewski in free agency this spring.
