Neither team is treating this like a signature game yet, and that's fair — it's Week 2, and Robert Saleh is still figuring out what he has as Tennessee's new head coach. But there's a real gap in roster continuity here. The Eagles are coming off a wild-card exit as defending conference contenders; the Titans are coming off the NFL's worst kind of season and a midseason coaching change. That gap is exactly what the market's going to be pricing.
Philadelphia closed 2025 on a rough note, dropping 2 of its last 3 including a wild-card loss to San Francisco, but there's more talent in that locker room than the finish suggests — Jalen Carter's fifth-year option getting picked up says as much about the defensive line. Tennessee's swings have been more extreme: a 26-9 upset of Kansas City sandwiched between losses, including a 41-7 blowout to close the year. That kind of week-to-week unpredictability is the whole story of a team still finding its identity under a new coaching staff.
Availability is the thing to watch as camp opens. Lane Johnson looks like a full go, which stabilizes an Eagles line that struggled without him. Jihaad Campbell and Makai Lemon carry offseason question marks for Philly, while Tennessee's got its own — Jeffery Simmons and Oluwafemi Oladejo both worked through issues this spring even as Simmons cashed in on his extension. None of it screams alarm yet; it's the kind of stuff that either clears up in camp or turns into a real subplot by September.
Bottom line: this is an early measuring-stick game more than a marquee one. Philadelphia's got more established pieces and a healthier past-performance baseline, even while it retools around Hurts. Tennessee's got real building blocks in Ward, Simmons and Ridley, but a coaching staff and quarterback both still finding their footing. Circle it as a spot where the Eagles' floor should be higher than the Titans' ceiling, at least for a Week 2 matinee.