Forget the short week of practice. Dan Quinn was ready to lead his Washington Commanders into Thursday night's NFC East showdown in Philadelphia by Monday. "I'm fired up about it.
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This is what division games should be -- an absolute blast," the first-year Washington coach said. "Philadelphia and Washington battling for it? Hell yeah!" The Eagles (7-2) have a five-game winning streak and overtook the Commanders (7-3) for first place in the division on Sunday, when Philadelphia demolished Dallas and Washington lost a nail-biter to Pittsburgh. Eagles coach Nick Sirianni was a little less psyched about the prime-time matchup, calling the quick-turnaround Thursday night games "a pain in the butt to prepare for" during his Monday press conference.
"It's just that everything gets crammed into a shorter amount of time," Sirianni said. "So that's what we're working through right now, is I think a lot of guys will have big bags under their eyes at the end of the week, but we've got to do what we need to do as coaches to get the guys ready." Philadelphia certainly looked ready for a Dallas squad playing without Dak Prescott, scoring 27 unanswered points in a 34-6 victory in Arlington, Texas.
Jalen Hurts overcame two turnovers with four touchdowns (two passing, two rushing) before resting in the fourth quarter with many of the starters. The defense collected five takeaways and held the Cowboys to 146 total yards of offense -- the fifth straight game that the Eagles allowed 280 or few.
