Exploring Game Totals: Key Players Impact on Eagles vs Chiefs

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00:00Total, 49 and a half.

00:01Opening still sits at 49 and a half.

00:04That's a tough threshold to get over.

00:06Because it's like, you know, the,

00:07hey man, 99.99, that's a good price.

00:10100 bucks, that's too much, man.

00:11I'm not paying 100 bucks for that thing.

00:13Price point sometimes does matter to the optics.

00:1550 seems like a ton.

00:1749 and a half seems doable at this point.

00:20But at this line, let's just say this.

00:22Any time between right now and Tuesday,

00:24the closing line on Sunday,

00:26do you think we see a 50 at a prominent outlet

00:30for the total in this game?

00:32I think so.

00:33I do.

00:34I think it is a number that is more likely to trickle up.

00:38I think, Donnie, one of the things

00:41that could influence this total

00:43is clean bills of health for Dickerson and Juergens.

00:47Yes.

00:48Which I'm kind of expecting.

00:49Like, you just think about news

00:51that we're waiting on, right?

00:53Well, Kansas City's not gonna really give us any, right?

00:56You were listening this morning to the early line.

00:58Oh, really?

00:59Yeah, that's fine.

01:00Listen, you know, some guys who maybe know

01:03what's going on then, I guess.

01:06I imagine, Donnie, that that type of positive news.

01:09I mean, also, listen, people keep talking

01:11about the fast track, you know?

01:15I don't know how much it's worth

01:17playing the game in New Orleans

01:19versus, say, playing a game in Kansas City.

01:22I probably disagree with how much it's worth,

01:26but that's par for the course

01:27because I typically bet against

01:30weather movement all the time.

01:33Yeah, no, and your point is exactly

01:36what I was going over this morning

01:37because the thought was, like,

01:39where's that line gonna end up?

01:40Is it two?

01:41Is it one?

01:42Is it one and a half?

01:42Is it Eagles favorite?

01:43Is it three Chiefs?

01:44You know, going over all those options.

01:46And I was with you, and I said to myself,

01:48the Chiefs coming into last week,

01:50you know, we were saying, like,

01:51they were really healthy across the board.

01:53They came out of that game pretty much unscathed

01:56for the most part.

01:57So they're gonna head to the Super Bowl,

01:58as is, as what you expect.

02:00Because a lot of times in the past,

02:01you're like, oh, man, we got two weeks

02:03to talk about if this guy's leg is healed up.

02:05Jalen Hurts, who the question on Sunday was,

02:08and rightfully so, is the guy gonna be compromised

02:11in the pocket, to say the least?

02:12Like, can he stand up?

02:13Is that pass rush gonna be coming down

02:15and he can't protect himself?

02:17He was okay in that game.

02:18But now he has two weeks to get even better.

02:20So that is a positive for the Eagles.

02:22Same way you brought up the line.

02:24Cam Juergens, a Pro Bowl center,

02:26like your center, being out for a football game,

02:29and the Eagles going like,

02:30just throw Landon over there, he'll be just fine.

02:32He doesn't snap the football,

02:33but we're not worried about putting Steen at left guard.

02:34It's like, wait a second.

02:36This is the best offensive line of football.

02:37Maybe the most important spot, you're down,

02:39and you're using maybe the best guard in football

02:41as your center, which is gonna limit

02:43some of the things he can do,

02:44and is that gonna affect protections?

02:45And it worked out in their favor.

02:47So now we're saying, Jalen Hurts gets two weeks

02:49to get the leg amped up when he looked fine,

02:51and they scored 55 points, and he ran 10 times.

02:55Saquon Barkley, which was my biggest one, Kevin,

02:57because I still date myself back to this.

03:00Me and the big man on campus got into it on Facebook,

03:04on Twitter slash X, when I said, you know what?

03:08Lost to the Washington Commanders, no big deal.

03:11That means we have an automatic bye,

03:12we'll take in week 18, healthy for the playoffs.

03:15Can't do that, you gotta play for the one seed.

03:18Now, as it turned out, if nothing changed, which it didn't,

03:21everybody else won out,

03:22Eagles had to play all 18 games without their bye week,

03:24which was in the fourth or fifth week of the season,

03:28and they wouldn't have had that.

03:29Saquon Barkley, they knew he was gonna be needed

03:31in the playoffs, shot out of a cannon

03:34in all three of those playoff games.

03:36Now he gets two weeks to sit back and relax and say,

03:39you know what?

03:40Let me be full strength.

03:41And the same thing as you pointed out, Landon Dickerson,

03:43he's gonna play in that football game.

03:44Could he play maybe a week later?

03:46It's a big, strong, big, ugly guy up there,

03:48like he's probably gonna get in anyway.

03:49That extra week is massive.

03:51So usually you say, Kevin, like, oh no,

03:53wish this game was in like four days.

03:55Like, look at the advantage.

03:56No more advantage at all for either side on health,

03:59which actually favors the Philadelphia Eagles.

04:02So I'm with you on that take.

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