This is the first Eagles season since 2021 without A.J. Brown, traded to New England in the offseason. Dontayvion Wicks and rookie Makai Lemon are the new names at receiver. On paper, that's the kind of change that costs a team its first two games while everyone finds a rhythm. Instead, Philadelphia is 2-0 — and both wins came down to the final snap.
Week 1: 24-22 Over Washington
The Eagles opened the season with a 24-22 win over the Commanders on September 13. Dallas Goedert caught two touchdowns, and Dontayvion Wicks scored his first as an Eagle in the second quarter. Washington had a two-point conversion late that would have forced overtime — the Eagles' defense stopped it. A one-score game decided by a single defensive stand.
Week 2: 24-20 in Nashville, With 14 Seconds Left
The Titans led by three points late in the fourth quarter when Jalen Hurts took over. He threw two interceptions on the day — the kind of mistakes that usually end a road comeback before it starts — but drove the offense 65 yards on nine plays anyway, capping it with a 3-yard touchdown pass to Darius Cooper with 14 seconds on the clock. It was Cooper's first career NFL touchdown catch. Final: Eagles 24, Titans 20.
Hurts finished 26 of 37 for 264 yards, two touchdowns, two picks, and a passer rating of 100.7 through two weeks — operating under center more than at any point in his career, with a new offensive coordinator and a receiving corps that didn't exist together six months ago.
Why Two Close Wins Matter More Than One Blowout
A team can get lucky once. Winning two straight one-score games — one on a goal-line stop, one on a two-minute drill with your quarterback having already thrown multiple picks — isn't luck. It's a team whose conditioning holds up when everyone else's execution is breaking down. The fourth quarter is where fatigue shows up first: footwork gets sloppy, reads get slow, tackles get missed. Philadelphia's defense made the stop it needed against Washington. Hurts's arm and legs were still there in the two-minute drill against Tennessee. That's not talent alone. That's a team that recovers well enough, play to play and week to week, to still be playing at full speed when the game is actually decided.
The Eagles are back-to-back NFC East champions chasing a third straight title — something no team has done in the division since Philadelphia itself pulled it off from 2001 to 2004. Two games in, the grind that got them here hasn't changed a bit.