{"id":478572,"date":"2025-12-29T21:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/478572\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T21:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T21:54:10","slug":"nick-sirianni-on-if-the-eagles-will-rest-starters-in-week-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/478572\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Sirianni on if the Eagles will rest starters in Week 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>4:21 PM:<\/strong> The Eagles have been locked into a playoff spot for over a week, but their seeding is still up in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia is currently the NFC&#8217;s No. 3 seed and can&#8217;t drop any lower, but an Eagles win against the Commanders and Bears loss to the Lions would give the Birds the No. 2 seed for the playoffs. That&#8217;s a big difference as being the No. 2 seed would guarantee the Eagles a home game in the Divisional round should they advance.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles and Bears both play at 4:25 PM, meaning Philadelphia won&#8217;t know Chicago&#8217;s result before kickoff. Head Coach Nick Sirianni has to decide whether the Eagles will rest key starters against the Commanders, but he said on Monday there isn&#8217;t a rush right now to come to that decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously we&#8217;ve done it both ways. We&#8217;ve had opportunities to rest. We&#8217;ve had opportunities to continue to get a better seed and played,&#8221; Sirianni said. &#8220;You go through your process, you go through all those different things, but every season is a little bit different. Every every team is a little bit different. We&#8217;ll end up doing what we think is best for the the team, and we&#8217;re still thinking through that.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s not a decision I have to make today or even tomorrow. It&#8217;s just something that you have to go through the process of making it. And so, again, at the end of the day, we&#8217;ll do what we feel is best for the team. I know there will be debate about whatever it is that we do. But that&#8217;s why we have to go through our process and do what we feel is best to help our team moving forward.&#8221; \u2014 Matt Ryan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"4:21 PM: The Eagles have been locked into a playoff spot for over a week, but their seeding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":478573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[216131,56943,5229,56944,69597,1448,2830,1311,56945,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,216132],"class_list":{"0":"post-478572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-2025-week-18-commanders","9":"tag-all-news-archived","10":"tag-america","11":"tag-nfl-com-feature","12":"tag-nick-sirianni","13":"tag-pa","14":"tag-pennsylvania","15":"tag-philadelphia","16":"tag-team-roster-content","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa","23":"tag-washington-commanders-at-philadelphia-eagles-2025-reg-18"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115805084954523758","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478572","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=478572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}