NFC Championship Game Breakdown: Commanders vs. Eagles

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00:0070% of the bets on the spread for the NFC Championship game first up on Sunday on

00:07Jaden Daniels and the Commanders. So tell me DRS, when the line opened on Sunday

00:13evening at four and a half in favor of the Birds and we're getting 70% of the

00:18action on Washington, why is this line now near a touchdown in favor of

00:23Philadelphia? Yeah, it's pretty wild the way you look at it because the Eagles

00:28are a good ballclub. They didn't wind up in this position by getting lucky late

00:31in the season. Like they've been very good. The number one overall defense in

00:34the NFL. You take a look at Jalen Hurts has been underwhelming in the passing

00:38game, yes, but he's learned not to turn the football over and every time you

00:41hand off it feels like every four carries is a home run hit by running

00:45back Saquon Barkley. But the one thing I do understand about handicapping and

00:48gambling is there's odds makers and there's the betting public because

00:52opening that line at four and a half I thought showed a lot of respect for

00:55Washington and the thought process behind that was maybe we're not going to

00:58get a healthy enough Jalen Hurts to play next week to be effective. As you still

01:02see at the FanBull Sportsbook, 70% of the tickets still coming in on the

01:06Washington Commanders and that line moves up two full points which should

01:10give you pause if you're a Washington backer. Now me, being around the block,

01:13that is an Eagles line no doubt about it. Am I running to the window to take the

01:17six and a half today as I'm so excited to do that? Not necessarily, but

01:21understand the products of their environment. Everybody expected a great

01:24punch from the Green Bay Packers. Eagles handled their business and outside of a

01:27collapse over the final two minutes to get to almost two touchdowns for the

01:31Rams, the Eagles were double digits there for the primarily parts of that second

01:35half and still they were favored by six, six and a half and pushed and were

01:39covered depending on when you got those numbers earlier in the week. So the

01:42Eagles are expected to win. They're the better football team, but again I'm not

01:45overly excited at saying yes let me lay close to a touchdown in this game.