The Atlanta Falcons and the Philadelphia Eagles come head to head on Sunday in a big game for Week 10 of the NFL regular season. This game takes place at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia and has a scheduled start time of 1 p.m. ET. The game can be watched on TV on the Fox network, or online through live stream via the link below.
This should be an intriguing contest, even though coming into the game the Atlanta Falcons are flying high at the top of the NFC South, and the Philadelphia Eagles are lagging in the basement of the NFC East.
The Falcons have had a solid season so far, although they will know there are plenty of areas they need to improve upon before the postseason arrives. They come into the game on 6-3 ahead of the 4-4 New Orleans Saints and 3-5 Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Carolina Panthers in the NFC South.
If they can pull off a string of wins over the coming month they may be able to secure their postseason berth early, allowing them to rest their top stars before the Playoffs begin. However, there is still much work today, and even though they come up against a team bottom of their division, the Eagles are very much a dangerous team and will test the Falcons today.
The Eagles are bottom of the NFC East, but they do not have a losing record, and come into today's game on 4-4. The NFC East is extremely competitive this season and the Eagles will know they need to improve, gain more consistency if they are to compete for the postseason spots.
That means winning games like today's against top opposition. Their first priority will be securing second spot in the division, which is currently occupied by the 5-3 New York Giants. Whether they will have a chance to compete with the Dallas Cowboys at the top, who are 7-1, remains to be seen, but so competitive is the NFC East that whoever finishes second may well have a very good chance at claiming one of the Wild Card spots in the NFC.
Earlier this week on NFL Thursday Night Football the Baltimore Ravens claimed an easy win over the terrible Cleveland Browns.
That 28-7 result in favor of the Ravens condemned the Browns to their tenth loss of the season, and left them still waiting to taste victory this season.
The Browns will be disappointed somewhat as they managed to go in at half time 7-6 up and surely would have been hoping to keep things tight and try and snatch a close win on the road in Maryland.
However, those dreams were quickly wiped out once the second half started as the Ravens scored 15 unanswered points in the third quarter following by seven more in the final quarter to win 28-7 and move to a 5-4 record.
Even though we could pick apart that game and find all sorts of things wrong with the Ravens performance, they will at least be happy about their defensive work on Thursday night.
Yes, they were only playing the Cleveland Browns - the worst team in the entire NFL this season - but still what they achieved was impressive, and held the Browns to just 144 total yards at just 3 yards per play.
The Ravens secured four sacks through the game, and took away the ball three times.
However, Baltimore will be hoping that quarterback Joe Flacco can improve as the season continues, and his inconsistency is being reflected in all the Ravens' offensive work.
Flacco was better in the second half than the first, and Baltimore will know he must continue to build on that second half showing in the coming weeks if they are to stand a chance at making any significant impact on the postseason.
Today's big NFL Week 10 game between the Atlanta Falcons and the Philadelphia Eagles has a scheduled start time of 1 p.m. ET and can be watched on TV on the Fox network or online through live stream by clicking here.
