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Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz desires his group to cease Washington from successful the NFC East on Sunday evening
The Philadelphia Eagles are hoping to play spoiler and deny the Washington Soccer Staff the possibility to win the NFC East and make the playoffs with a win over their divisional rivals on Sunday evening.
The Eagles (4-10-1) are the one NFC East group eradicated from postseason rivalry earlier than Week 17. A win over Washington, nonetheless, can cease them from claiming the title, and defensive coordinator Jim Schwartz has mentioned the group have adopted a easy rule as they appear to make that occur.
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“We have got to have a no-hat rule this week,” Schwartz mentioned, through PennLive. “We will not let opponents put division win hats on on the Linc. There’s a variety of delight in that, and all our focus must be [on] carrying out that this week.”
Schwartz’s defence has struggled this season, together with in final week’s 37-17 loss to rivals Dallas Cowboys, who they may assist win the division in the event that they do beat Washington on Sunday.
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Requested to judge his defence in 2020, Schwartz mentioned it’s one recreation too early for value determinations.
“There’s an excessive amount of at stake,” Schwartz mentioned. “It won’t be at stake for us as a group with a playoff berth and issues like that, however we have a variety of particular person issues that gamers nonetheless can accomplish.
“We have got guys which might be attempting to earn their approach within the league, and we now have a division opponent that is going to return and attempt to have fun on our area.”
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Colts to cover NFL scores throughout Jaguars recreation
The Indianapolis Colts need assistance to get into the playoffs, however first they should maintain their very own enterprise by beating the one-win Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday.
With the intention to preserve their gamers centered on that activity, the Colts are hiding scores of different NFL video games involving groups Indianapolis have to lose throughout their recreation.
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“Possibly to not all guys, but when it is a distraction to 1 man, that is one man too many,” Colts head coach Frank Reich mentioned of the choice, through ESPN.
“It is higher to not have them up there. It is irrelevant. It could actually do nothing so as to add to what we now have to concentrate on. It solely has a possible damaging impact in our view.”
The Colts want one of many Cleveland Browns (vs Pittsburgh Steelers), Baltimore Ravens (at Cincinnati Bengals), Miami Dolphins (at Buffalo Payments) or Tennessee Titans (at Houston Texans) to lose and for them to win so as to make the playoffs.
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