{"id":17225,"date":"2011-08-24T11:04:57","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T16:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=17225"},"modified":"2011-08-24T11:04:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T16:04:57","slug":"pro-football-preview-cleveland-browns-at-philadelphia-eagles-handicapping-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/pro-football-preview-cleveland-browns-at-philadelphia-eagles-handicapping-predictions-17225\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Football Preview: Cleveland Browns at Philadelphia Eagles Handicapping Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cleveland Browns at Philadelphia Eagles<\/strong>
\n Thursday, 8\/25\/11, 7:30 PM EST<\/strong>
\n Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Philadelphia -7<\/strong>
\n Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Philadelphia -7<\/strong>
\n Opening Total:\u00a0 39<\/strong>
\n Current Total:\u00a0 40<\/strong>
\n Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Philadelphia Eagles QB Michael Vick threw three interceptions last week against the Pittsburgh Steelers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cleveland dropped a 30-28 contest to the Detroit Lions in its second preseason home game of the year as 2.5-point favorites and will now finish up the exhibition season on the road.\u00a0 The Browns have been extremely happy with the performance of second-year quarterback Colt McCoy, as he\u2019s turned in two strong appearances to take a hold of the starting spot.\u00a0 He tossed three touchdown passes in five possessions against the Lions and put two scores on the board in limited action against the Packers in a 27-17 win in Week 1.\u00a0 Cleveland is 3-3 ATS as an underdog during exhibition action.<\/p>\n

The Browns made big news during the week by locking up All-Pro offensive tackle Joe Thomas to a seven-year, $84 million contract.\u00a0 Many around the NFL consider him one of the premier left tackles in the game and will protect McCoy for years to come.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ve always loved playing for the Browns,\u201d Thomas commented.\u00a0 \u201cI love the fans.\u00a0 I love the city.\u201d\u00a0 Cleveland\u2019s offense has scored 55 points in the first two preseason games combined, which is the most by the team since it posted 68 in 1955.\u00a0 The Browns\u2019 27.5 points-per-game average ranks third in the NFL this preseason.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia can hold off the discussion of being the league\u2019s \u201cDream Team\u201d for awhile after being handed a humbling 24-14 road loss against in-state rival Pittsburgh.\u00a0 The Eagles have plenty to work on and quarterback Michael Vick needs to start concentrating on the field rather than photo shoots off of it.\u00a0 \u201cI absolutely feel the need to redeem myself,\u201d Vick stated this week in practice.\u00a0 The 2010 AP Comeback Player of the Year completed just 5 of 12 passes and threw three interceptions last week.\u00a0 Philadelphia is 2-8 ATS in its last 10 preseason games<\/p>\n

Eagles head coach Andy Reid has stated that starters will be expected to play into the second half Thursday night.\u00a0 It\u2019s quite normal that NFL teams play first-team units for a longer period during the third week, as many rest players for the preseason finale heading into the regular season.\u00a0 That may not be the case for the Eagles, as Reid has let it be known that some of his stars may play against the New York Jets next week.\u00a0 Defensively, the unit will welcome back defensive tackle Mike Patterson, who will see his first live action of the year.\u00a0 He suffered a seizure on the practice field earlier this month.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely fade the Eagles due to their 0-2 ATS mark the last two-plus years when favored by 3.5 to 7 points in preseason games.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning proposition and let the NFL handicappers at Maddux Sports go to work for you.\u00a0 Get a long-term package today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cleveland Browns at Philadelphia Eagles Thursday, 8\/25\/11, 7:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Philadelphia -7 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Philadelphia -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 39 Current Total:\u00a0 40 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Cleveland dropped a 30-28 contest to the Detroit Lions in its second preseason home game of the year as 2.5-point favorites and will now finish […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[3728,360,568,685,344],"class_list":["post-17225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-andy-reid","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-colt-mccoy","tag-michael-vick","tag-philadelphia-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17226,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17225\/revisions\/17226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}