Jalen Hurts takes his Philadelphia Eagles on the road to Paycor Stadium to face off with Joe Burrow and his Cincinnati Bengals. This should be an explosive matchup between two teams with high expectations that haven’t quite lived up to all the hype just yet. This game could be the turning point for either or both teams. Let’s dive into this Eagles-Bengals preview and predictions.
The Philadelphia Eagles are 4-2 coming into Week 8 after a sizable win over the New York Giants in Week 7. Their two losses came at the hands of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Atlanta Falcons. Dallas Goedert did not practice on Thursday and remains a longshot to play Sunday, the rest of the Eagles offense weapons should be good to go.
Joe Burrow and the Bengals have started out slow (we’ve seen this movie before). After an 0-3 start to the season including a Week 1 loss to the New England Patriots, they’ve won three of their last four, and sit at 3-4 coming into Week 8. Safety Geno Stone and tackle Orlando Brown both got in a limited practice Thursday, giving the team hopes they’ll play Sunday.
Philadelphia Eagles at Cincinnati Bengals Preview and Predictions Video
Philadelphia Eagles at Cincinnati Bengals Preview and Predictions
Saquon Barkley Over 80.5 Rushing Yards (-115)
Saquon Barkley brought his A-game with him to Philadelphia. In five of Barkley’s six games with the team, he’s cruised past this number including three games over 100 yards and twice crossing the 145-yard mark.
Saquon Barkley finished the day with 176 rush yards (13 short of his career high) and picked up 134 yards on three big runs
The Eagles run game continues to be a diverse scheme, and they even used more under center today pic.twitter.com/DOWcAMrzLN
— Shawn Syed (@SyedSchemes) October 20, 2024
The Bengals’ defense is in the bottom half of the league in being able to stop the run. They’ve averaged allowing 136.1 yards per game on the ground. Derrick Henry gashed them for 92 yards, Rhmondre Stevenson for 120, Chubba Hubbard for 104, and Isiah Pacheco for 90 yards.
Philadelphia Eagles +3 (-118)
These two teams have only faced off 14 times in history, and their last matchup was way back in 2020. So there’s no recent games to look at it, but the way I’m viewing this is you’ve got two very good teams and one is a three-point underdog.
The underdog has the better record and has looked impressive for the most part with a big win over the Packers early in the season. Even in their loss to Atlanta, they kept it a close game to the end losing by just a single point. Expect this one to be a close shootout game. Even if they can’t pull off the win, the Eagles keep it close.
