Bengals vs. Eagles Preview: Insights & Predictions

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00:00The other game tonight, 7.30 Eastern, Bengals and Eagles.

00:03We know the Eagles, who played so late into the season,

00:06are going to stretch out their starters and not play them until the bitter end

00:09if they even have to.

00:10And I guess that's why Cincinnati is five-and-a-half point favorite tonight.

00:14Total is 37-and-a-half, although Zach Taylor gave an update on who's playing

00:19and who's not the other day, and it sounded like so many players on their team

00:22sitting on defense.

00:24Total 37-and-a-half in this game.

00:26Again, I know we're flipping coins here, Matt,

00:28so flip yours here on this one.

00:30Yeah, I just think, you know, I think he said the starter,

00:33the offense is going to play at least a series,

00:35which I think is very interesting, not something they've done in the past.

00:38And, of course, they're notorious for getting off to slow starts

00:41in the regular season.

00:42They've always had a lot of injuries and contract issues.

00:46I mean, they still have contract issues right now on the defensive side of the ball,

00:50but offensively the past few years, I think they look at that

00:53and think that has slowed down getting out of the gates in the regular season

00:56and they want to try to do something different here.

00:59So I do think that gives them that advantage.

01:01But, you know, look, everyone's been talking about their defense all offseason.

01:05They're going to score a lot of points.

01:07They're going to give up a lot of points.

01:08And if you go into even a preseason game against backups

01:11and you're playing your backups on a defense that already isn't considered to be very good,

01:17we could see points.

01:18You know, I know that the sort of general consensus is bet the unders in preseason games

01:22because they can just get so ugly and you never know what you're going to see.

01:25But I actually think this is a game where we could see some points

01:28and it could be kind of a weirdly fun game because I don't think people really know

01:33what to expect from certainly from the Eagles with who they're playing

01:37and how that distribution is going to be.

01:38But with that Bengals defense, I think it could get really wild.

01:42Let's go.