Eagles vs. Bengals: Potential High-Scoring NFL Game Preview

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00:00And this is one of those games where a lot of points are projected for a couple of reasons.

00:07One, the Eagles are playing better.

00:09And number two, the Bengals can't stop anybody, essentially, other than Cleveland, I guess.

00:12That's the only team they've stopped all year.

00:14So the Bengals are home favorites.

00:16They're two and a half point favorites, but as you see here, one of the higher totals

00:18in the NFL on the board, for good reason, this week at 48 and a half.

00:23Did you buy what you saw with the Eagles last week in their dominant performance, both on

00:27offense and, by the way, I should mention, on defense, too, against the Giants?

00:33I thought the defense was impressive, there's no doubt.

00:36A unique team in the NFL to three points, and you've performed really well.

00:41I don't totally buy what I saw from the Eagles on the other side of the football, because

00:46although you can have a great Saquon Barkley game any week, you're not going to have that

00:52game any week.

00:53That was an amazing performance, over 170 yards.

00:58You're not going to likely get that against the Bengals on the road, where I think the

01:03Bengals, as a result, even though they have not been significant defensively overall,

01:09they have been able to come up at moments, and the Cleveland game was a good example

01:14of where they really had to be good all day, because Cleveland's defense is significant.

01:21The Bengals knew that they had to stop Cleveland, and they did an effective job.

01:26Some of it was obviously the injury to Deshaun Watson, going with the younger backup did

01:32not go.

01:33If Winston had been on the sideline for that, it might have been a different story, but

01:38going in the direction that the Browns did was a huge mistake.

01:42I think that in general, the Bengals are a reasonable pick this week as a result.

01:51I don't know whether or not I'll play with the total, but I like the Bengals giving up

01:57the two and a half.

01:58I think they can cover that.

02:00The Bengals, of course, who have dominated the Eagles through the years, by the way,

02:04although going back 20 years, I don't know that it means anything anymore, but the last

02:08time they played was actually a tie during the 2020 season.

02:12Again, rosters look completely different.

02:14We're going back almost to boomer of size, I feel like here.