Eagles could benefit from a friendlier 2026 regular-season schedule
Eagles scheduling break is a breath of fresh air after a brutal 2025 campaign.
The Philadelphia Eagles spent much of the 2025 season feeling as if the NFL schedule-makers had some unresolved personal issue with them. Week after week, another playoff-caliber opponent appeared. Road trips piled up.
There were no comfortable stretches to exhale, regroup, or convince anyone the football gods still cared. Somehow, just to make things more annoying, Philadelphia never played back-to-back home games during the regular season. That's almost impressively rude.
This time, however, things look different. According to early strength-of-schedule projections , the Eagles enter the 2026 season with one of the league’s more manageable slates. Each team’s strength of schedule for the upcoming season ahead of Thursday’s schedule release: pic.
twitter. com/81g7PQJ6ee — Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) May 12, 2026 That's a noticeable shift after surviving what often felt like an annual stress test disguised as a football schedule. Philadelphia's 2025 path was legitimately absurd.