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NFL 2023 regular season
Dates: 7 September 2023 – 7 January 2024
BBC coverage: Listen to live commentary on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra and the BBC Sport website every Sunday, with San Francisco 49ers v Philadelphia Eagles this Sunday (from 21:00 GMT)
It’s a heavyweight match-up that has been mentioned in the same breath as Rocky Balboa versus Apollo Creed.
Over the last two seasons, the Philadelphia Eagles and San Francisco 49ers have not only been two of the NFL’s best teams, they have become the league’s newest rivals.
It began with last season’s NFC Championship game, when the Eagles beat the 49ers before losing a Super Bowl classic to the Kansas City Chiefs.
San Francisco felt hard done by, and there has been plenty of trash talk since, but they have the chance to set the record straight when they visit Philly this Sunday, in week 13 of the regular season.
The “exciting” 49ers and “unstoppable” Eagles are currently the top two seeds in the NFC Conference so could meet again in January for a spot in Super Bowl 58.
And given both have the potential to become NFL dynasties, their rivalry could soon match that of Philadelphia’s favourite fictional fighting son and his famous foe.
From decimated to a dynasty?
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San Francisco seem destined to win another championship after rebuilding a roster that former 49ers player Joe Staley says was “pretty much decimated” in 2017, when John Lynch was appointed general manager and Kyle Shanahan head coach.
Via shrewd draft picks and free agent signings, they have turned the five-time Super Bowl winners back into genuine contenders, reaching three of the last four NFC Championship games and losing to the Chiefs in Super Bowl 54.
And in their quest to bring the Lombardi Trophy back to the Bay for the first time since 1995, the 49ers took their roster to another level with mid-season trades for free-scoring running back Christian McCaffrey…
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Author : BBC
Publish date : 2023-12-03 08:22:18
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