October 30, 2026
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Jalen Carter will be looking for redemption after a bad night last week against Dallas.
The Eagles are spiraling, and usually, the Commanders would present a break in the schedule.
But this year is different.
Injuries have piled up, some talent has even regressed, playcalling is inept, and so is much of the execution on the field.
The Eagles are 2-5, the season is only slipping further away from them, and the Commanders this week on Sunday Night Football might not be the chance to stop the slide.
Our picks and predictions for Week 8...
| Sportsbook | Spread | Money Line | Total O/U |
| DraftKings | WSH -6 | PHI +190 WSH -230 | 40.5 |
| FanDuel | WSH -5.5 | PHI +198 WSH -240 | 40.5 |
| BetRivers | WSH -5.5 | PHI +200 WSH -250 | 40.5 |
| BetMGM | WSH -5.5 | PHI +220 WSH -275 | 40 |
| Caesars | WSH -6 | PHI +205 WSH -250 | 40 |
*Lines as of Thursday, Oct. 29
Jayden Daniels is 0-7-1 in his last eight starts. He is playing behind a bad offensive line and alongside some pretty unthreatening skill position players. The Commanders also have a very bad defense.
And yet, they are definitively better than this Eagles team that has an offense with no answers and an extremely disappointing defense.
The Eagles might be the worst team in the NFL right now, and I don't think that's some "hot take."
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It's just hard to give the Eagles any benefit of the doubt right now. The Commanders have just one win, but they beat the defending Super Bowl champs and nearly beat the 4-win Giants before Jayden Daniels blew it at the end. They also came within a possession of the 49ers, and they're coming off their bye week.
The Eagles will probably be doling out carries to Eli Mitchell and Jaydon Blue. Tanner McKee didn't take any opportunities to really drive the ball. The defense has been suspect all year. It's really a coin flip game, but the Eagles haven't won those kinds lately.
I want to pick the Eagles — they're bad but they're not 2-15 bad. They aren't going winless for the rest of the season. But with so much uncertainty as to who Tanner McKee will be throwing to, it might not be the week they end the losing streak.
I think they're going to eventually find some kind of groove, string together some wins and bust their draft position. They'll win six or seven games. But they're not there yet. It will be a tough to watch tight loss in DC Sunday night.
The Eagles aren't going to win.
The offense is too banged up and spread thin, and with the way the defense checked out against Dallas last week, they're just a team that's spent and ready to pack it in.
If the Commanders play them anywhere close to the way they did in Week 1, there's not going be anyhting to save the Eagles this time. Jalen Hurts isn't there now.
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