Eagles vs Bears Game Analysis: Expectations and Predictions

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00:00I want to start with the spread of this game, Eagles-Bears.

00:03Were you surprised at all when you saw Philly laying a full touchdown

00:07to a fellow 8-3 team?

00:09No, no.

00:10Again, you know, bounce back spot.

00:13I expect them playing at home to be angry, to be up,

00:17and look to put the hammer down on Streetball Williams

00:20and the Chicago Bears.

00:21And I've been on Chicago.

00:23I think they're playing very well.

00:24Love what Caleb Williams is doing in the offense.

00:27He's progressing.

00:28The defense has been opportunistic.

00:31Again, it's matchups, right?

00:33And it comes down to do we believe Caleb is going to be able to be clean

00:38with the football, put up yards, and is Swift and Mononga going to be able

00:43to run on the front seven in a situation where I expect Fangio

00:48to have this defense playing with their hair on fire?

00:51No, I just don't see that.

00:53So I think it's a perfect spot for the Eagles to dominate.

00:56I do like Philly in the game.

00:58And total-wise, again, I don't see any reason why we can't get there.

01:03Okay.

01:03I don't think it's a lower-scoring game.

01:05I think they open it up, and hopefully you get a complete game

01:08out of the Eagles.

01:09That's what I expect.

01:10I'm not taking the seven in any capacity.

01:12I'm laying it.

01:13I was surprised by the seven.

01:15Why?

01:17You would lay, what, four and a half, five?

01:19That's what I thought it was going to be.

01:20Ah, come on.

01:21Now, I was obviously wrong.

01:23You're right.

01:24I, though, listen, I will tell you this.

01:28I don't know if I was, as I was kind of thinking what these numbers would be,

01:32was just, you know, down on what I had watched from Philadelphia.

01:36I actually have now, though, Joe, after looking at the numbers from this

01:40till last week, I actually don't think, I think the books like Philly more than

01:45maybe people's perception would suggest.

01:48I think the books are more aligned with you on Philadelphia than I think the way

01:52they're discussed, because what they laid to Dallas is what Kansas City is

01:57laying to Dallas, and that's an upgraded version of the Cowboys.

02:01So that means to me that they probably think Philly is as good, if not better,

02:05than the Chiefs, and they think the Chiefs are really good.

02:07We know that.

02:08We know that to be true.

02:10Then to lay a full touchdown to the Bears, I know it says a lot about Chicago,

02:17but I think it still shows a strength and trust in Philadelphia from the books

02:22that I wasn't sure was going to be there.

02:24All right, but think about the games that they laid.

02:26Week one, they lay eight and a half to the Cowboys.

02:29They lay six and a half to the Rams.

02:31They lay all at home.

02:32Yeah.

02:33They laid what, 11 and a half?

02:34I don't remember.

02:36Was that a 13 and a half number?

02:37I think it was 11 and a half to the Giants, where they smashed them by 20.

02:42The game that Scatterboo got hurt.

02:44I think it was 11 and a half, if I'm not – I'm just saying, it was double digits.

02:47I'll tell you that.

02:48Yeah.

02:49So this goes right in line.

02:51I mean, the books don't expect the Eagles to lose at home.

02:56The only loss they have is the Broncos.

02:58Yeah.

02:59And what did they lay there?

03:00They laid three and a half in that game?

03:02I don't remember.

03:04It might have been six and a half.

03:06It might have been, again, six and a half.

03:07Yeah, it was something – it was over a field goal.

03:09It was under a touchdown.

03:10Right.

03:10It was right in that area, five and a half, six to – I think it opened at five and a

03:16half to Bo Nix.

03:17But my point is, yeah, they're eight and three, but they play – right.

03:24But they play a lot of close games.

03:26I mean, they beat the Raiders by one.

03:28They're road games.

03:29The Bears' resume is bad.

03:32The resume is really bad.

03:33Ed, it's good considering they've over-exceeded expectations to your – to what I told you,

03:39eight and a half was their win total.

03:40They're going to exceed that.

03:42But they have to make the playoffs.

03:44They've played two projected playoff teams at Detroit, 52-21, at Baltimore, no Lamar, 30-16.

03:55There you go.

03:55So, again, it does say a lot about Chicago, this number, as well.

04:02It says that – it's not that the books think they're not as good as eight and three.

04:06They view – Bears, Cardinals on a neutral field is like Chicago minus one.

04:16No.

04:16I think that's how the books see it.

04:19They're terrible, Arizona.

04:22I think with Brissette, I'm not – that's – I don't think they think much of this Chicago group.

04:27I think this –

04:28But you can only play who's on your schedule again.

04:30Right, but it's about how you look in those games.

04:32So, to your point, though, Joe, Cincinnati miracle comeback.

04:35The Giants miracle comeback.

04:37The Vikings comeback.

04:40This Pittsburgh, they held them off.

04:42Those wins were by five, four, two, and three.

04:44Again, you're allowed to win close games, but you have to – we don't – everyone has to, you know, understand this, right?

04:53It goes back to last year's Kansas City.

04:56Analysis has aged.

04:57We don't do – what's the record?

04:59That's all you need to know.

05:01That's not how –

05:02No, I understand that.

05:03Especially what we do here works.

05:04Right, but again, I take it a step further.

05:07I say, okay, they're eight and three.

05:10Yep.

05:10The expectation for this team was right at eight wins.

05:14And through 11 games, they've won 80% of them, right, for the most part.

05:20They're doing a great job.

05:22They have more of an identity now than they did last year.

05:25They're winning close games as opposed to losing them last year.

05:29They're winning on the road.

05:30It's all a testament.

05:31But, again, I'll say it, and I'll say it again.

05:35And, to me, whether they're playing like it or not right now, I still buy into the Eagles as the most complete team.

05:45And they're still going to get my money come playoff time because I think they'll get it right and figure it out.

05:51I'll say it again.

05:52I'll say it again.

05:52Shall we bring you back?

05:53Let's go.

05:54Let's go.

05:55Let's go.

05:56There we go.

05:56Let's do right now.

05:57Let's go.

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