Savannah Guthrie’s beloved Philadelphia Eagles and Craig Melvin’s Washington Commanders will face off Sunday in the NFC Championship Game.

It’s Craig Melvin’s first week as Hoda Kotb’s replacement on Today but his cohost Savannah Guthrie was forced to miss an episode of the show. During the Thursday, January 16, broadcast, Savannah, 53,

The TODAY co-anchors reflected on a time when Craig and his future wife, Lindsay Czarniak, had their evening cut short so she could appear on MSNBC’s “The Daily Rundown."

Savannah Guthrie said she was 'the last to know' she was replacing Ann Curry on the 'Today' show. 'When I was offered the job, I was in tears,' the co-anchor told Parade in a new interview.

“I was like, ‘Are they forcing you out?’ She’s like, ‘No Craig, I’m OK. I’m leaving,’” he recalled. “I was legit stunned, so much so that after she left, I went back to her dressing room, and I was like, ‘Are you sure you’re OK?’ It takes a certain kind of courage to leave anything when you’re at the height of your game.”

The stars promoted their new partnership with an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on January 15 and undertook a challenge. Craig and Savannah were tasked with answering questions about one another for a game of Know Your Co-Host. However, it got off to a disastrous start as can be seen in the video below.

We go in and we sit on the set and there are these trays,” Guthrie joked, explaining that in the trays for their personal items, Kotb had left, “like, one contact and, like, expired

Savannah Guthrie had an important warning for her Today co-anchor Craig Melvin, two weeks after he replaced Hoda Kotb on the show. See details.

Courtesy of Roy Rochlin/Getty Images When it comes to anchoring a morning news show, one thing is certain — your wake-up call is well before the sun rises. And as a result, Savannah Guthrie has a stern warning for her new Today coanchor Craig Melvin.

It sounds like Guthrie is very proud of her now former co-anchor for choosing to “go into the great unknown” and try something new in her life. At the same time, when Kotb did tell Guthrie, not long before she shocked fans on TV, she also had to voice her own sadness regarding the loss of getting to work with her everyday.

Dressed in a navy suit and yellow tie that his wife and kids picked out for the occasion, Craig stands at the TODAY desk reading over copy when music begins playing. He looks up, surprised, as the first verse of Hootie & the Blowfish’s “Let Her Cry” comes through the studio speakers.