Eagles players are enraged after Week 15 matchup got rescheduled

If you haven’t heard by now, the Washington Football Team‘s road fixture against the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday will not proceed as scheduled.

The news trickled out in bits and pieces on Friday, with the postponement of the Browns-Raiders matchup being confirmed. That was shortly followed with speculation that Washington-Philly and Rams-Seahawks would follow suit.

Before you knew it, all three games were rescheduled.

Due to an evolving COVID outbreak within the organization, Washington will now play the Eagles on Tuesday at 7 p.m. EST on FOX.

It’s a shocking turn of events for the NFL, which went to drastic measures to not reschedule games last year coming out of the pandemic.

As you can imagine, this announcement didn’t sit well with players on teams slated to face Washington, Los Angeles and Cleveland.

That included Philadelphia, as cornerback Darius Slay expressed his frustration on Twitter once he caught wind of the news.

Eagles players aren’t happy their game against the Washington Football Team got pushed back.

Honestly? Cry about it.

The NFL was playing a dangerous game waiting as long as it did to postpone these games. With COVID and the Omicron variant running rampant throughout the league, what did Slay expect to happen here?

Get an easy win over a decimated Washington side (23 players on the COVID list) that would’ve seen his Eagles leapfrog leapfrog their rivals in the NFC playoff picture? In what way is that good for the NFL’s bottom line?

And no, in this case, we’re not talking about money.

The bottom line here is that Washington is running close to placing half of its 53-man roster on the COVID list, including its top two quarterbacks Taylor Heinicke and Kyle Allen. While it’s no guarantee that either player is activated in time for Tuesday (Allen is more likely given he tested positive a few days earlier than Heinicke) it at least gives the team a chance to get some players back.

If the Eagles were in this position, you know they’d be relieved. Alas, Fletcher Cox and Rodney McLeod decided to chime in.

Those are fair points, as Montez Sweat, who’s unvaccinated, was the first Washington player to test positive and might’ve (emphasis on might’ve) spread the virus around the locker room, but let’s not act like Washington broke protocol.

The Ravens and Titans both blatantly violated health and safety protocols last season, and saw a late-season game rescheduled.

And for the Eagles complaining about the upcoming short week, if they can’t beat the lowly Giants on short rest then they don’t deserve to be in the playoffs. Furthermore, delaying the game until Tuesday gives Jalen Hurts (ankle) more time to heal. The second-year QB was shaping up to be a game-time decision.

With the game being pushed back to Tuesday, Hurts will likely be a full-go, so this hardly puts Philly at a disadvantage.

If you think for a second that Washington is a so-called “winner” in all this, well, we’ve got nothing to say to you.

Let’s hope they get a few players back for Tuesday, though, because if these tweets are any indication, the Eagles are going to be playing angry.