Pressure on Eagles to Keep Up with Cowboys in the NFC East Race
By Charles Jay
The Philadelphia Eagles have seen both sides of it this season, in the respect that they have had to come back from big deficits and defend big leads. On Sunday they just know they have to get by a team that seems to know how to win when they take on the Arizona Cardinals in pro football betting action that is set to kick off at 4:05 PM ET at University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, AZ.
The Eagles began the season coming back from double-digit deficits in each of their first three games, and that is the first time in NFL history something like that has happened. And then they almost blew a huge lead against the St. Louis Rams. Two weeks ago they left no doubt at all as they destroyed the New York Giants and made them quit, with the he 27-0 final a mere formality. Now they encounter an opponent that doesn’t look so dominant on the field, and therefore may not be given all the credit they deserve from critics. Are they getting enough respect from the oddsmaker?
NFL Betting Line – Cardinals vs Eagles
The Cards are a very slight favorite on their home field:
Arizona Cardinals -2
Philadelphia Eagles +2
Over 48 points -110
Under 48 points -110
Arizona is 5-1 straight-up and 4-2 against the football pointspread. Philadelphia is also 5-1 straight-up and 3-2-1 versus the number. While the Cardinals now lead the NFC West by a game and a half over San Francisco and two games over Seattle, Philadelphia trails the Dallas Cowboys by a half-game in the NFC East.
What the Eagles hope is that what they were able to get out of LeSean McCoy before the bye week was no fluke. That may be a strange thing that say about a player who led the league in rushing last year, but the fact is that McCoy, even after the 149-yard outburst against the Giants, is still averaging only 3.6 yards a carry. VietBet customers know that the offensive line was a main culprit, as it was battling issues of injuries and players being well out of that place, but that situation is improving.
Nick Foles will have some followers in the crowd, as he played his college ball at the University of Arizona. He is finding out that it isn’t so easy to repeat a great performance as a first-year starter. In 2013 he had 27 TD’s and just two interceptions. This season he has already turned the ball overt ten times (seven INT’s, three interceptions). This tends to slow down the ideal of the fast-paced no-huddle offense of the Eagles and this team has indeed run fewer plays than their opponents.
Carson Palmer has returned at quarterback for the Cards, and he gives the team more of a chance to make something happen. But the key for the Cards, as VietBet customers know, is to avoid making big mistakes, and this is something they have been able to do thus far. Palmer has thrown just one interception and the team has lost only one fumble. They want to put the Eagles in a position where they have to earn their points, but they will have to get something out of Andre Ellington (393 yards, 3.7 ypc), who has dealt with foot injuries and has not really broken out big.
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