The Week 15 finale on Monday Night time Soccer has the most important NFC playoff ramifications of any sport on the slate. The Philadelphia Eagles journey to Seattle to face the Seahawks in a sport neither can afford to lose this late within the season. It’s fairly apropos of those groups closing out Week 15, seeing the way it’s been as a few years for the reason that Eagles beat the Seahawks. With each groups coming off butt-kickings by the hands of divisional foes final week, this must be an epic showdown as a result of a lot is using on the result.
In contrast to final yr, Philly is now not a shock workforce that nobody believed in till late within the season. They don’t really feel like fairly the identical workforce, though their file is among the many finest within the NFL. After being destroyed in Dallas final week, this Monday evening matchup with Seattle is a must-win within the race for home-field benefit this postseason. After getting stomped out by the 49ers two weeks in the past, the Eagles can’t fall a full sport behind them with San Francisco proudly owning the head-to-head tiebreaker.
Seattle’s in an analogous scenario, however a loss for them means shedding floor on a playoff spot altogether. The Seahawks sit perched in ninth place within the NFC, a half-game behind 4 groups at 7-7. With six groups targeted on two wild card spots, one other loss would make Seattle’s probabilities at making the postseason rattling close to unattainable with solely three video games remaining. There’s no time like the current for snapping this four-game shedding streak.
One other side that would make this sport much more intriguing (or much less, relying on the way you view it), is that it may very well be a shootout between backup quarterbacks. Jalen Harm is coping with some sort of sickness and Geno Smith has a groin harm. Smith is unlikely to play, whereas the jury remains to be out on Hurts. So, the postseason hopes of the Seahawks might very nicely fall on Drew Lock’s shoulders. If Hurts can’t go for the Eagles, Marcus Mariota, the previous No. 2 total choose, will get the nod.
These groups have misplaced six in a row, mixed, in order that they’ll be preventing for his or her soccer lives. All issues being equal, Philly ought to take this sport, even on the highway, however that is near-playoff soccer and something can occur when a workforce’s again is in opposition to the wall. For the Eagles, a loss most likely means no residence subject, however for the Seahawks, their postseason goals will almost definitely be nothing greater than that.
