The close of the Eagles’ common time could have been even worse, I suppose. I could have been sitting down on a betting slip for about 11.5 wins for this mess of a staff.
Severely, picture the heartbreak for people very poor over bettors. The Birds ended up 10-1 via 11 weeks. Positive, they got blessed and pulled a couple of people wins out of their pushed tushes, specifically the Chiefs and Payments games that marked their last two victories in advance of their collapse commenced.
But nonetheless, they were 10-1! To strike the over, they just wanted go 2-4 or greater, with two game titles remaining against the Giants and a single from the Cardinals.
They appeared on track for the NFC’s no. 1 seed, the very first-spherical bye, and a record of about 14-3. Maybe, if they stumbled a bit, 13-4, the NFC East title, and the next seed. It was really hard to see how they’d only get to 12-5. And it was all but impossible for them not to get to 12 wins and hit that around on their preseason gain complete.
Those bad about-11.5 bettors. Blowout street losses to Dallas and San Francisco ended up comprehensible — predictable, even. But then the Eagles fell apart late in a game in Seattle in which they led all the way. They practically did the similar at dwelling against the Giants, but held on for their lone gain because November. Thanks to a series of pathetic coaching selections, they missing in unfathomable trend to a playing-for-pleasure Arizona group. And then their starters fell guiding 24- from Giants — A.J. Brown and Jalen Hurts the two acquiring injured in the procedure — prior to the backups took over.
So, beneath 11.5 victories proved the winning side, someway. Around bettors should loathe this crew.
And I, as well, after owning put in additional than 40 years rooting for the Eagles, kinda hate this group.
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Field intention faves on the road, somehow
I have in no way been in this situation before, observing my squad reach the playoffs and remaining torn on no matter if I want to see them advance or just want to see them/me set out of our misery.
The Eagles are favored on all the sporting activities betting applications on the road Monday night time from the NFC South winner Buccaneers. I cannot wrap my head all-around this Philly staff currently being favored from any person but the Bishop Sycamore JV staff correct now (you’re damned right I’m recycling jokes if the Eagles are 50 percent-assing it, why should not I?).
But I guess I get it, in that the Bucs went just 9-8, appeared terrible in splitting their previous two online games and scoring just 9 details and no touchdowns against Carolina in their finale, and are rolling out a terribly banged up QB in Baker Mayfield.
This Eagles workforce shouldn’t be favored from any person, but the exact same could be mentioned of this Bucs team.
So the Birds opened as a tiny favorite and, as of Monday early morning, sat at -3 (+100) at wager365, BetMGM, Caesars, ESPN Guess, and BetRivers, even though FanDuel and DraftKings each had them -2.5 (-120). On the moneyline, the Eagles ranged from -148 at DraftKings to -160 at Fanatics Sportsbook.
Underneath usual instances, exactly where I felt shaky about my team’s potential clients but however enjoyed looking at them perform and wished to see them advance (to outlast the hated Cowboys, if nothing else), the door would be huge open up for an “emotional hedge” guess on the Tampa Bay moneyline. It pays as a lot as +130. That is a pleasant selling price for a economical reward to soothe the pain of defeat.
But I’m not all-in on just one facet, emotionally. I just can’t say how tricky I’m rooting for these Eagles. The offense has been usually unwatchable — and that figures not to strengthen with Brown out with a knee sprain Monday. As for the protection, effectively, the braintrust assumed Matt Patricia was the solution to its complications. That tells you all you want to know about how deep those people problems operate.
The final 6 months of observing this team have been unpleasant, ratcheting up to definitely unpleasant the final two. There would be some mental-overall health upside to the Eagles’ time ending in Tampa and their offseason having underway with no illusions about the want to make specified changes and upgrades.
Buuuuuuuuut …
Then all over again, it was just just one year in the past that the Eagles came maybe inside of one particular penalty flag of winning the Tremendous Bowl. And the Chiefs’ acquire above the Dolphins on Saturday night was a reminder that, if a staff has postseason pedigree, you just cannot low cost the likelihood of it creating an additional operate. (Severely, as missing as Kansas Metropolis seemed most of the period, would you now be stunned to see them enjoying in the Tremendous Bowl in Las Vegas?)
And with the Cowboys losing to the Packers on Sunday, all of a sudden there is a route. Perhaps not for the Eagles team we have seen the last 6 weeks, but for the 1 that prevailed in 10 of its very first 11 games? Inexperienced Bay’s gain means the Eagles-Bucs winner does not have to enjoy San Francisco subsequent week. The winner will go to Detroit rather, which is terrific information for Lions supporters. But it also offers a glimmer of hope for Eagles or Bucs admirers.
The Eagles’ odds to acquire the Super Bowl shifted noticeably just simply because the Cowboys shed. The movement was most pronounced at BetMGM, the place they were +1800 to open up the playoffs and went to +1400 as of Monday early morning.
Neither value is remotely eye-catching if you have watched this staff in December or January, but it’s distinct the sportsbook operators are not prepared to depend them out.
And to get the NFC, the Eagles’ cost is now as low as +600. At kickoff of Sunday’s Lions-Rams recreation, the Lions and Eagles were co-2nd-alternatives to earn the conference, powering the 49ers, at FanDuel. That is absurd, to set the exact price tag on this disaster of an Eagles crew as the bookmakers have been putting on the major-to-bottom qualified Lions, but squint really hard enough and you can pretty much commence to see a way the Eagles get back again to the Super Bowl.
It’s possible the Packers can experience their momentum earlier San Francisco. Then the Eagles could host the NFC Championship game. All they need to have to do is defeat the Bucs and Lions initial.
A true supporter never stops believing.
A longtime lover of any staff also by no means stops believing the bottom will slide out. Only just one staff will get to the win the title. Seeing sports activities ailments you to hope disappointment.
And making an attempt to sit by way of Eagles online games lately — in particular the previous two months — has conditioned me to count on to come to feel annoyance, then anger, then nausea … and finally ambivalence.
Can I genuinely location an psychological hedge wager if I’m coming in with combined emotions? Is there these kinds of issue as a “mixed-psychological hedge” wager? Would that entail betting both of those sides and paying out the vig as punishment for being both equally an Eagles supporter and a athletics bettor?
As of this crafting, the only guess I have put on this recreation was on a Hurts whenever TD at ESPN Bet several days ago at -118 odds. (The line is now -120. So, you know, #value.)
Will I put a lot more bets? Will I mixed-emotionally hedge? Will I wait for the game to begin and see exactly where my coronary heart is top me and attempt the novel mixed-emotional in-video game hedge bet?
I’m torn among the traditional “Go Birds” and the disgusted “Go dwelling, Birds.” Whilst I determine that out … go Expenses. I’m sitting on a +2200 Niners-above-Bills Tremendous Bowl ticket, soon after all.
