{"id":17996,"date":"2011-09-24T11:52:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T16:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=17996"},"modified":"2011-09-24T12:03:04","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T17:03:04","slug":"nfl-against-the-spread-picks-new-york-giants-at-philadelphia-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-against-the-spread-picks-new-york-giants-at-philadelphia-eagles-17996\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Against the Spread Picks: New York Giants at Philadelphia Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Giants at Philadelphia Eagles
\nSunday, 9\/25\/11, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FOX
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Philadelphia -9
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Philadelphia -8.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 48
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 48
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Philadelphia Eagles running back LeSean McCoy is off to a great start in 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New York bounced back from an opening week loss with a convincing 28-16 win over the St. Louis Rams as seven-point favorites on Monday Night Football.\u00a0 The Giants are hoping that quarterback Eli Manning can continue his strong play against the Eagles, as he\u2019s tallied a 100-plus passer rating in two his past three games against them.\u00a0 The last time he faced Philadelphia, he completed 23 of 39 passes for 289 yards, four touchdowns and an interception.\u00a0 He will be missing many of his top targets from a year ago, including wide receiver Domenik Hixon, who will miss the rest of the season after tearing his right ACL.\u00a0 New York is 7-9 ATS on the road the last two-plus campaigns.<\/p>\n

The Giants defense is incredibly banged up and has allowed consecutive 300-yard passing games to Washington\u2019s Rex Grossman and St. Louis signal-caller Sam Bradford.\u00a0 Pro Bowl defensive end Osi Umenyiora is likely to miss his third-straight game to open the season, as he recovers from knee surgery that he underwent during the preseason.\u00a0 New York leads the all-time series, 79-71-2, but has dropped six in a row.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia returns home off a disappointing 35-31 loss to the Atlanta Falcons as 2.5-point road favorites.\u00a0 The Eagles actually finished with a 129-yard advantage in the statistics, but quarterback Michael Vick was knocked out after suffering a concussion.\u00a0 He\u2019s expected to start this week after being cleared to resume football-related activities.\u00a0 \u201cIf he\u2019s OK on game day,\u201d coach Andy Reid stated of him playing.\u00a0 \u201cThen he plays on game day.\u201d\u00a0 Mike Kafka replaced Vick last week due to Vince Young also being out with an injury, completing 7 of 9 passes for 72 yards.\u00a0 Philadelphia is 14-12 ATS as a favorite the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Eagles have been very happy with their ground attack early in the year, as running back LeSean McCoy has 217 rushing yards, which is the most for the franchise in two games since 1992.\u00a0 Philadelphia obviously wants Vick back in action, as he led an improbable 21-point fourth-quarter comeback last year, throwing for three touchdowns and gaining 130 yards on the ground.\u00a0 He will find a lot of room facing a Giants\u2019 secondary that has allowed 300-plus yards in the first two games.\u00a0 Wide receiver Jeremy Maclin will have another chance to have a career-type game, as the Giants will likely focus on stopping fellow wideout DeSean Jackson.<\/p>\n

Bettors will find that the Eagles are 5-0 ATS in Week 3, while the Giants are 2-5 ATS as an underdog.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning season and let the NFL handicappers at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York Giants at Philadelphia Eagles Sunday, 9\/25\/11, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FOX Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Philadelphia -9 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Philadelphia -8.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 48 Current Total:\u00a0 48 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker New York bounced back from an opening week loss with a convincing 28-16 win over the St. Louis Rams as seven-point favorites […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[63,598,685,401,344],"class_list":["post-17996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-desean-jackson","tag-eli-manning","tag-michael-vick","tag-new-york-giants","tag-philadelphia-eagles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17996","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=17996"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17999,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17996\/revisions\/17999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}