{"id":420676,"date":"2025-12-03T00:57:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T00:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/420676\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T00:57:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T00:57:11","slug":"nfl-announces-start-time-for-philadelphia-eagles-washington-commanders-week-16-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/420676\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL announces start time for Philadelphia Eagles-Washington Commanders Week 16 game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/nfl-announces-kickoff-times-for-eagles-commanders-packers-bears-week-16-saturday-doubleheader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NFL announced<\/a> the start time of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/eagles-commanders-nfl-2025-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Philadelphia Eagles-Washington Commanders Week 16 game<\/a> at FedEx Field. The NFC East rivals will kick off at 5 p.m. on Dec. 20.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The other NFL game on Dec. 20 \u2014 the Green Bay Packers vs. the Chicago Bears \u2014 will kick off at 8:20 p.m., the league announced Tuesday. Both games will air on Fox.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Week 16 game between the Eagles and Commanders will be the first time the two teams will meet since last season&#8217;s NFC championship game, when the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/news\/eagles-vs-commanders-nfc-championship-game-nfl\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Birds dominated Washington en route to a Super Bowl win<\/a> over the Kansas City Chiefs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles controlled their own destiny at one point in the 2025 season, but after two straight losses, the Birds have opened the door for the Dallas Cowboys to make a run for the division title.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles remain in first place of the NFC East at 8-4, while the Cowboys are 6-5-1 in second place. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/nfl-playoff-picture\/2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Athletic&#8217;s playoff simulator<\/a> gives the Eagles a 90% chance of still winning the NFC East. It gives the Cowboys a 10% chance of winning the division and a 23% chance of making the playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>The Commanders (3-9) have dealt with numerous injuries this season, including to star quarterback and AP Offensive Rookie of the Year Jayden Daniels.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles and Commanders will meet once again in the regular season finale in Week 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NFL announced the start time of the Philadelphia Eagles-Washington Commanders Week 16 game at FedEx Field. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":420677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,1448,2830,1311,1105,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-420676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-pa","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115652922380015215","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}