Two weeks ago, the Washington Commanders won their first playoff game in 19 years. Sunday’s NFC championship game will be just the 11th playoff game since the turn of the century for the organization and its first conference championship game since Joe Gibbs — the coach for whom they named a street at the practice facility just north of Dulles airport — led the team to a Super Bowl win to end the 1991 season.

Former Philadelphia Eagles tight end Zach Ertz says the Washington Commanders helped him “fall back in love with the game again.”

In a mere matter of days before the NFC Championship Game between the Philadelphia Eagles and Washington Commanders, The Athletic has intercepted communication between two of its beat reporters, Brooks Kubena and Ben Standig, in which they enlisted one another as quasi-analysts to gain insight into the other’s team.

The Eagles will see a few old friends on the other sideline at Lincoln Financial Field in Sunday's NFC championship game. Here are five familiar faces on the Commanders roster ... Zach Ertz, tight end Ertz was on the Birds’ only Super Bowl-winning team and is one of the franchise’s best-ever tight ends.