Eagles Vs. 49ers: Predicting the Week 13 Winner and Preview
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00:02 Total for this game now, 46 and a half,
00:06 47, 47 and a half, somewhere in that range,
00:09 all kind of varying at this point in time.
00:12 And again, the historical context of this is,
00:15 you only find a team as good as the Eagles
00:19 this deep in the year as a home dog,
00:23 if they have a backup quarterback going.
00:25 This is as rare as it gets when we talk about
00:28 a line available in the market.
00:31 Some have said, well, maybe it's a bit to do
00:34 with the Eagles' schedule catching up to them.
00:36 They played a Monday nighter, obviously,
00:39 going against the Kansas City Chiefs,
00:40 followed that up with an overtime Sunday game
00:43 against the Buffalo Bills,
00:45 and now run here against the San Fran team
00:47 that's coming off of the mini bye,
00:49 having played Seattle on Thanksgiving.
00:52 The spot for the Eagles is tough,
00:55 but the line basically says
00:57 they might as well not show up.
00:59 It's Niners and it's Niners big.
01:01 - Well, you look about it, and we talked about it,
01:03 and I talked about it with Donnie
01:04 in regards to perception versus reality.
01:07 Every year, there's a week or a weekend
01:10 where the books absolutely clean up, right?
01:12 Where they are, we're getting beaten down,
01:14 and all of a sudden, they have a record week, right?
01:17 We saw it with college football, Washington and Oregon.
01:20 10-point favorite for the team that lost
01:22 to the Washington Huskies in the Oregon Ducks.
01:24 There's no way Washington was gonna win that ball game.
01:28 Why?
01:28 Because the books established Oregon
01:30 as a 10-point favorite.
01:31 I think the perception is that, you know what?
01:33 If Brock Purdy played in that ball game last year,
01:36 there was no doubt that San Francisco 49ers were winning,
01:39 but guess what?
01:40 He didn't play.
01:41 He did play, but he got knocked out.
01:43 The Eagles won that ball game.
01:44 Jay Lenarch stepped up.
01:46 He led his team to a Super Bowl,
01:47 accounted for four touchdowns in that ball game
01:50 against Patrick Moms, has won every single week.
01:53 He's basically 26-2 as a starting quarterback,
01:57 and the Eagles are the best team in the NFL right now.
02:00 This is a perception.
02:01 I'm not buying the line movement.
02:03 I'm not buying the fact that San Francisco is favorite.
02:05 The better team on both sides of the ball,
02:07 and I'll say it again, is the Philadelphia Eagles.
02:10 San Fran doesn't have the advantage
02:12 at the quarterback position, the wide receiver position,
02:15 the offensive line, or the defensive line.
02:17 CMC and maybe George Kittle on the offensive side
02:20 of the line, and I'll give the edge to the secondary.
02:23 Eagles win this ball game by seven plus.
02:25 Also, taking a look at the weather conditions
02:27 in this football game, I'm not so sure
02:29 if we're going to be seeing those rainy conditions
02:30 we saw last week with the Buffalo Bills
02:32 or a few weeks back here with the Kansas City Chiefs.
02:34 So I think we get a clean slate,
02:36 which is why we're hovering around those 47 1/2
02:38 and 46 1/2 numbers.
02:39 The one thing that we do know always is,
02:42 well, who's gonna turn the football over?
02:43 Who's gonna play?
02:44 The reason I bring that up is the Philadelphia Eagles
02:45 have not been getting out of the gates hot.
02:47 You can't do that repeatedly and expect to win.
02:49 Any given Sunday, as we like to say, yes,
02:51 but this isn't any underdog environment
02:53 for the Philadelphia Eagles coming in at 10 to one.
02:55 The things I also wanna look at today
02:57 is this is a four o'clock start.
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