The Eagles’ 2023 schedule includes two Super Bowl rematches and a grueling second-half stretch

The NFL schedule makers gave the Eagles one Super Bowl rematch to begin the season and another to start a daunting stretch midway through it.

The Eagles will open the season in Foxborough, Mass. against the Patriots (4:25 p.m.) with Tom Brady in attendance to celebrate his retirement with the New England fans. They’ll host the Minnesota Vikings the following Thursday night for their home opener and will travel to Tampa Bay to play the Buccaneers on Monday Night Football in Week 3.

Things stay relatively light for a few more weeks; the Eagles will host the Washington Commanders Week 4 and then travel to Los Angeles to play the rebuilding Rams the following Sunday.

The two-game stretch that follows features a Week 5 trip up I-95 to play Aaron Rodgers and the ascending New York Jets and then a home game against the Miami Dolphins’ high-speed offense.

Two division games, one at FedEx Field against the Commanders and then a home game against the Dallas Cowboys, give way to the Eagles’ Week 10 bye. The bye week will be a much-needed reprieve before a grueling stretch of games that features six consecutive meetings with 2022 playoff teams.

The stretch begins on Nov. 20 with the much-anticipated Super Bowl LVII rematch against the Kansas City Chiefs at Arrowhead Stadium Monday night. The Eagles will host the Buffalo Bills and then the San Francisco 49ers over the next two weeks. The latter will serve as an NFC championship rematch, which the Niners seem eager for given multiple players’ comments during the offseason about wanting another shot at the Eagles with a healthy starting quarterback.

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It doesn’t ease up much from there; the Eagles will travel to AT&T Stadium to play the Dallas Cowboys in Week 14 and then go cross-country to the Seattle Seahawks the following weekend. The combined record for the five teams in this stretch was 61-23 last season, with all but the Seahawks cracking double-digit wins.

The Eagles will finish out the season with two games against the New York Giants sandwiched between a Week 17 home reunion with Jonathan Gannon and the Arizona Cardinals. The first of the two Giants matchups will be at 4:30 p.m. on Christmas Day at Lincoln Financial Field. The latter will close out the season Jan. 2.

Given last year’s run to the Super Bowl and the expectations going into this season, it should come as no surprise that the Eagles are already slated for at least five prime-time games with the potential for late-season flexes. Including last year’s Christmas Eve game against the Dallas Cowboys, the Eagles were in six prime-time slots last regular season.