The Philadelphia Eagles will start defending their championship at home on Sept. 4 against the NFC East rival Dallas Cowboys in a rare intra-division matchup for the NFL’s annual regular-season kickoff game.
The selection was revealed on Monday by the NFL, the first in a series of announcements of notable games on each of the league’s broadcasters ahead of the full schedule release on Wednesday night.
The Eagles were also chosen to play the Chicago Bears on Nov. 28 on the streaming platform Prime Video’s third edition of Black Friday football and as part of a Saturday doubleheader on Fox on Dec. 20 on the road against the NFC East rival Washington Commanders.
Amazon also announced Monday that the Kansas City Chiefs will host the AFC West rival Denver Broncos on Christmas night on Prime Video. The league plans a tripleheader for the Dec. 25 holiday, which falls this year on a Thursday, with the other two games on Netflix.
The Eagles, Commanders, Bears and Green Bay Packers would thus be natural picks for the two Netflix games, with more turnaround time than any team playing on that Sunday, Dec. 21. That puts Eagles-Packers and Bears-Commanders in line for potential matchups, with all the NFC East and NFC North teams playing each other this season.