PHILADELPHIA EAGLES +1.5 over Seattle Seahawks

The Eagles are home-dogs against the 11-win Seahawks. That makes sense. What doesn’t make sense is why so many people are on the Seahawks at an alarming rate.

Bettors are loading up on the Seahawks this weekend against the Eagles in historic percentages https://t.co/xscFYAT60Q

— Darren Rovell (@darrenrovell) January 3, 2020

When everyone is betting on one team, go the other way. There’s a reason that there are tall shiny-buildings built in the desert and it’s not because they give away easy wins.

The Eagles aren’t at full strength — especially if Zach Ertz doesn’t play this Sunday — but they finally have some players who have stepped up. Miles Sanders should be healthy. Boston Scott provides a nice change of pace. Greg Ward may be just good enough to give the Eagles a true outside receiving threat.

The Seahawks aren’t healthy either. They will have to rely on Russell Wilson to win this game. The Eagles won’t let Marshawn Lynch — coming off whatever he was doing this season — create a running threat for Seattle. So it’s all on Wilson’s shoulders.

We’ve seen this game before. A team that barely won it’s division and had a poor regular season record hosts a team that should be superior based on performance and record. In fact, it happened in Seattle once.

2019 Record: 61-60-2

2018 Record: 59-59-2

2017 Record: 43-29

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