Obscure hypothetical I guess
I believe Niners are the best team by a little bit over Bengals and Chiefs
Eagles are weakest team remaining IMO
Not like there is a gulf separating teams but I do like the Niners to beat the Eagles this weekend. Good match up for Niners IMO on both sides of the ball
I believe Niners are the best team by a little bit over Bengals and Chiefs
Eagles are weakest team remaining IMO
Not like there is a gulf separating teams but I do like the Niners to beat the Eagles this weekend. Good match up for Niners IMO on both sides of the ball
If Home field is worth 3, you could say the linemaker actually thinks the 49ers are a little better team as they have not put the Eagles in as a full 3 point favorite.In SF, SF probably is 3 to 3' point favorite.I was thinking purdy would make a few mistakes to hurt the 49ers, but it was Dak that made some bad mistakes.I already played Eagles -1' for a nickel before doing much of a deep dive into the matchups.I am glad line is moving for me, in case for reasons unknown at this time I buy back or decide to bet more than this on the eagles. This is the week Purdy comes down to earth, thought it was going to be yesterday, but that didn t work out for me.Home field can usually is hugh in conference championship games.The intensisty is as high as it gets with a trip to the superbowl on the line,Even though Purdy has played well and beat who they have played, this by far will be his toughest test and right now I am betting against him.
Lot of holes on their defense, especially against the run. They may load the box against Niners, but think that’s playing with fire given Niners have a lot of weapons
Eagles have solid weapons offensively but overall they’re worse in that department, the other 3 teams
Hurts is good, not great. Think he benefits a lot from the strength of team which is the offensive line. He’s better than Purdy but not close to Burrow or Mahomes
They’re not a bad team or anything like that obviously lol but compared to the other teams I would rank them last
No respect ... how can you say NYG shouldn't have been there? If you put another team in their place you'd just point to that team having a worse record. The next best team after NYG was Tampa at 8-9 .... Should they have been there? The Eagles could have named the score against the Giants so I don't see where discrediting the opponent means much here.
As for SF they beat Dallas by just 7 (At SF) and Dallas had the chance to win at the end. Dallas beat Tampa (in your words another team that shouldn't be there) by only 20. Eagles beat Dallas with Hurts by 9 and it was a late Dallas TD that made it that close. Then the Eagles almost beat Dallas with their backup QB. In addition SF only won 4 games against teams with a winning record with 2 being Seattle 9-8 and 1 being Mia also 9-8 not the toughest of winning teams. They also lost to Chicago (yes Chicago), Denver and Atlanta how does all that add up to better team?
Meanwhile the Eagles destroyed NYG and will now be at home. They finished the season 14-3 with two losses coming without QB who is back now
Look at the team rankings
Offense: Eagles #3 - SF #5
Defense Eagles #2 - SF #1 .... And that's with SF playing a softer schedule
The Eagles may lose but I don't see them being the inferior team.
Eagles had a stretch when Jordan Davis the big Nose tackle missed some games and teams were able to run the ball on the eagles.When he plays they are pretty stout against the run.The eagles have the best O line in Football and manhandled a pretty good NYG front four.Eagles corners with Slay and Bradbury are both outstanding and will give Purdy much tighter windows.The way the eagles played down the stretch, losing to the saints and the cowboys and Hurts being hurt and missing some playing time.I think that stretch has taken pressure off them and everyone is saying how great the 49ers are.Even though philly is at home and small favorite.Seems like there was going to be more pressure on the eagles when they did not get challenged for first 8 or 9 games, people were asking will they go undefeated, then thay had some injuries, lost a few games, looked like they were coasting the last month biding their time till the playoffs.Watching them against a well coached overacheiving NYG team they looked like they flipped the switch and are ready for playoff Football.NYG down 28-0 and you had NO belief they could make a few plays and get back in the game.They were being dominated.It seems the eagles arrived a year early after squeaking into the playoffs last year. The 49ers lost in the NFC championship game, last year it feels to me the pressure is more on them and more was expected of them this year, at least thats what I thought, i did not think eagles would
be in the championship game.They have been money all season in 3rd and 4th and short, which is hugh in NFL games in moving sticks and scoring points.I think the bye week helped them get even more healthy and NYG really did not seem to take much out of them. O Tackle Johnson you can see is playing hurt out there, but even hurt he was beasting on the Giants front.Sirrani has gone 10-3 ATS as a home favorite, showing in his short career he does not take teams lightly at home as a favorite.And NFC championship it shouldn t be hard getting up for that.49ers on 12 game win streak and were played about evenly with Dallas, and dallas just beat themselves.I see the 49er run ending here.
be in the championship game.They have been money all season in 3rd and 4th and short, which is hugh in NFL games in moving sticks and scoring points.I think the bye week helped them get even more healthy and NYG really did not seem to take much out of them. O Tackle Johnson you can see is playing hurt out there, but even hurt he was beasting on the Giants front.Sirrani has gone 10-3 ATS as a home favorite, showing in his short career he does not take teams lightly at home as a favorite.And NFC championship it shouldn t be hard getting up for that.49ers on 12 game win streak and were played about evenly with Dallas, and dallas just beat themselves.I see the 49er run ending here.
Eagles are the better team. Slightly. Kelce and Lane Johnson are insane on the Offensive line and Jordan Davis is equally talented on the DLine.
Both coaching staffs are excellent but Shanahan gets too conservative in close games this time of year.
The intangibles like home field and rookie QB are significant in a game like this
Both coaching staffs are excellent but Shanahan gets too conservative in close games this time of year.
The intangibles like home field and rookie QB are significant in a game like this
To reiterate, the Eagles are a good team, but I think they are 4th outta 4 in this set of teams
Giants I guess deserved it because the conference is so awful and that’s their fault , but point was Giants are not a good team, in normal years wouldn’t have been in that spot
Eagles are going to struggle running the ball a lot more than normal against that SF front 7. Eagles can wear you down if they jump out early and have leverage on the line, but I don’t see either of those things happening here
Did you expect them to blow out every team on the road? Did they win those games even though they "struggled"?
Cin barely won at home against Baltimore then comes back and blows out Buffalo on the road. Look for reasons to take a team instead of reasons not to.
I didn’t say they’re the weakest team remaining because they because they beat the Giants lol come on dude
I’m saying that game didn’t really add any new information, shouldn’t change perception much in my view
Also not really surprising if any of the 4 teams win it. But I think Eagles are weakest of 4 based on reasons I mentioned above
