Both coming off dominant wins in the wild-card round, the Rams travel to Philadelphia to face the Eagles. Follow updates from our team of reporters live from the game below.Watch today’s games on Fubo and find the best ticket deals on StubHub.The Philadelphia Eagles must replace a chamber of the heart of their top-ranked defense in the middle of their playoff run, a Super Bowl push that continues without Nakobe Dean, the mike linebacker who delivered disruption as well as the play calls in defensive coordinator Vic Fangio’s system.“We’re going to miss him a ton,” Fangio said.Read more insight on the Eagles' defense below!Sean McVay and the Rams offense have relied heavily on the talents of Kyren Williams this year. During the regular season, he rushed for 1,299 yards and 14 touchdowns, averaging 4.1 yards per carry.In the wild-card round against Minnesota, he rushed 16 times for 76 yards while adding three catches for 16 yards and a score.Sean McVay can seemingly do no wrong.The Rams coach rested his stars in the season finale, dropping a spot in the standings but shellacking the Vikings regardless. McVay believed in his team more than he cared about the opponent, and that’s the mark of a dangerous group.It didn’t sway the voters, though.“I think it’s going to be a replay of the (Eagles’) regular-season win against the Rams where they struggle to stop the run,” an executive said. “It’s a huge offensive line, and (the Rams are) small inside.”Read more insider analysis on this game below!A.J. Brown was unusually quiet in the Eagles dominant win over the Green Bay Packers in the wild-card round. The star wideout recorded just one catch for 10 yards on three targets and went viral for reading a book on the bench between series.This was by far Brown’s quietest game of the year but in the postseason, the only thing that matters is winning and advancing.On the latest episode of the “Scoop City” podcast, we touched on a point that Chase has been making for a while now: Jalen Hurts might be a good quarterback, but he isn’t throwing like one right now.Read more analysis below!What’s going on with Jalen Hurts and the Eagles’ passing offense?Even at age 36, Matthew Stafford is still one of the most surgical passers in the NFL and still possesses the ability to pick apart a defense. During the regular season, he put up rather pedestrian numbers, throwing for 3,762 yards, 20 touchdowns and eight interceptions.In the Rams wild-card win over the Vikings, Stafford looked unstoppable. He completed 19 of 27 passes for 209 yards and a pair of scores.The NFL and the Los Angeles Rams honored the victims and First Responders of the Los Angeles area wildfires throughout Monday night’s wild-card game between the Rams and Minnesota Vikings. After the Rams’ 29-7 win, quarterback Matthew Stafford said his team was inspired by their hometown fans.“It’s a resilient group,” Stafford said. “I’m so proud of these guys. … We knew what we were playing for today. It was ‘Go get this win,’ but man, it was for the people of Los Angeles struggling right now. It’s been unbelievable to watch the whole community, the state, the country kind of get behind them. It’s a tough time to be back there, and we’re just happy that we came out there and played like this tonight. Something to be happy about.”Read more on the Rams inspirational wild-card win below!Vintage always seems to make a comeback. Hence why the top two seeds in the NFC playoffs’ march into the divisional round are succeeding by making old strategies new again. And it’s having an impact on football card collectors.Which two players from the Detroit Lions and Philadelphia Eagles could put the biggest scare in their opposing defenses this weekend? No offense to the Lions’ Jared Goff and the Eagles’ Jalen Hurts, but those defenses would name the teams’ respective running backs: Jahmyr Gibbs and Saquon Barkley. (Goff and Hurts seem like they’d be smart enough to agree with the sentiment, as well.)Read more below regarding player performance impacting the football card market.While it has been well documented how special of a season Saquon Barkley put together this year, here is additional context. The Eagles star rushed for 2,005 yards and 13 touchdowns in 16 games this season, averaging 5.8 yards per attempt. Barkley also had 17 rushes of 20+ yards, second in the league behind Derrick Henry’s 19 such runs.His total of 2,005 rushing yards is the eight-highest single season rushing total in NFL history, finishing exactly 100 yards short of Eric Dickerson’s record (2,105) which was set in 1984.Philadelphia is 9-6 all-time in 15 trips to the divisional round of the playoffs. The Eagles last trip to this round was in 2022, beating the Giants 38-7 en route to a Super Bowl appearance, ultimately losing 38-35 to the Kansas City Chiefs.Los Angeles has appeared in 21 divisional round games in its franchise history, going 12-9 in such games.The Rams last appeared in the divisional round in 2021, beating the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 30-27 on the road, before going on to win the Super Bowl.Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley continued his remarkable season Sunday in a dominant performance against the Los Angeles Rams. Barkley rushed for a career-high 255 yards on 26 carries and added two touchdowns, solidifying Philadelphia’s 37-20 win over the Rams on “Sunday Night Football.”The Eagles (9-2) used a second-half burst, beginning with Barkley’s 70-yard touchdown run in the opening minutes of the half, to get ahead of the Rams with a two-score advantage. While Philadelphia and Los Angeles exchanged scores over the next couple of drives, the Eagles maintained their lead. The Rams (5-6) had a chance to cut into Philadelphia’s double-digit, third-quarter advantage but a missed field goal stymied a comeback effort.Here are our experts' key takeaways!The Eagles are 24-20-1 all-time against the Rams, having won eight of the last 10 matchups.These two sides last faced off in Week 12 in a game that Philadelphia won 37-20 in Los Angeles.They have faced three times in the postseason with the Rams winning two of these matchups, including the 2001 NFC championship game.The Los Angeles Rams defeated the Minnesota Vikings 27-9 in Monday’s wild-card matchup in Arizona.It was a major victory for the Rams, not only because they’ll advance to play the Philadelphia Eagles in the divisional round next, but also because the win came after the contest was relocated from the team’s home venue at SoFi Stadium to State Farm Stadium due to the L.A. wildfires.Here are our experts' key takeaways!The Philadelphia Eagles are moving on to the NFC divisional round after a 22-10 wild-card win over the Green Bay Packers at Lincoln Financial Field on Sunday.The Eagles’ No. 1-ranked defense (by yards allowed) controlled the physical affair as Vic Fangio’s unit pitched a shutout until six minutes remained in the third quarter. Philadelphia finished with four takeaways, one of which came on special teams, and forced Packers quarterback Jordan Love into uncomfortable throws all game as he tossed three interceptions.Here are our experts' key takeaways from the Eagles win.We’d love to hear from you throughout today’s coverage.If you’re not a subscriber yet, you can still get involved. Simply send an email to [email protected].Today’s game will air on NBC with Mike Tirico on the play-by-play call and Cris Collinsworth as the color analyst.
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