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Eagles at Bills predictions for Week 17 of the NFL season
The Eagles (10-5) are on the road to face the Bills (11-4) on Sunday afternoon in Orchard Park.
I love that the Eagles have this measuring-stick game against a really good team late in the season with enough potentially at stake that Nick Sirianni has to play the starters but realistically without huge seeding implications and not a whole lot to lose. Who are the Eagles? Are they the team that went 4-5 from early October through early December or the team that’s had two four-game winning streaks and is coming off decisive wins over two bad teams? I feel like we’ll learn a lot about the Eagles Sunday in Orchard Park. Were the wins over the Raiders and Commanders a mirage or a sign that this team has really figured a few things out? The Bills are fun to watch and they’ve got elite weapons on offense, mainly Josh Allen and James Cook. They’re also 30th against the run – 144 yards per game, 5.4 per carry – and that coincides with the Eagles finally getting the running game rolling. The Bills have had games allowing 160, 189, 197, 202, 210, 238 and 246 rushing yards, and I feel like the Eagles’ new-found commitment to the running game and the Bills’ struggles against the run are going to make the difference in this one.
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Jalen Hurts scored the game-winning touchdown in overtime against the Buffalo Bills during their last meeting in 2023. Tim Nwachukwu / Getty Images
PHILADELPHIA — The Eagles could have rested their starters this week against the Buffalo Bills and held out for the postseason. Instead, they’re “full steam ahead,” as defensive coordinator Vic Fangio said, in a game that will prepare them for the playoffs — and could potentially even preview a rematch six weeks later.
With the Eagles clinching the NFC East and encountering an 87 percent chance of the No. 3 seed, one could argue in favor of rest and avoiding injuries rather than chasing what The Athletic Playoff Simulator determines is a 12 percent of the No. 2 seed. That is still a sufficient enough of chance — it’s plausible that the Eagles win their last two games and the Chicago Bears lose their final two games — and it seems excessive to rest players for two weeks. That could even cause the adverse effect of rust before the playoffs.
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