{"id":35604,"date":"2014-10-02T10:45:46","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T15:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35604"},"modified":"2014-10-02T10:59:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T15:59:21","slug":"st-louis-rams-vs-philadelphia-eagles-pro-football-week-5-betting-odds-and-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/st-louis-rams-vs-philadelphia-eagles-pro-football-week-5-betting-odds-and-picks-35604\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Rams vs. Philadelphia Eagles: Pro Football Week 5 Betting Odds and Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

St. Louis Rams vs. Philadelphia Eagles
\nSunday, 10\/5\/14, 1:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Philadelphia -8
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Philadelphia -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 48.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 47.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Philadelphia Eagles will look to get their running game going in Week 5<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

St. Louis has alternated wins and losses in its first three games of the season, as it comes off a bye week and expects to have third-string quarterback Austin Davis as its starter for the remaining portion of the year.\u00a0 Coach Jeff Fisher gave is young player a vote of confidence earlier this week, which is important to consider when making your pro football picks, as he completed 30 of 42 passes for a career-high 327 yards and three touchdowns last time out.\u00a0 St. Louis is 2-5 SU and 3-4 ATS as road underdogs of 3.5 to 7 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Rams have the ability to be balanced offensively, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the NFL betting lines, as running back Zac Stacy has rushed for 181 yards on an average of 4.3 per carry.\u00a0 St. Louis has dropped five of its six road meetings against Philadelphia since moving from Southern California, as it attempts to even its 2014 regular season record.<\/p>\n

Philadelphia will look to bounce back from its first loss of the season, as it dropped a 26-21 decision to the San Francisco 49ers as 3.5-point road underdogs Sunday\u2014losing the statistical battle by a triple-digit margin for the second consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Eagles need to get their running game in order, as star LeSean McCoy is averaging a dreadful 2.7 yards per carry.\u00a0 The offensive line hopes to improve its play with the return of right tackle Lane Johnson.\u00a0 Philadelphia is 6-4 SU and 2-8 ATS as favorites of 3.5 to 9.5 points since 2012.<\/p>\n

The Eagles are also hoping that signal-caller Nick Foles is able to put his last performance behind him, as he completed just 21 of 43 passes for a season-low 195 yards with no touchdowns and two interceptions last Sunday.\u00a0 Philadelphia should be able to move the ball due to St. Louis sitting 30th in the league in surrendering 155 rushing yards per game.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Eagles due to their 6-1 ATS mark in their last seven meetings in this series.<\/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":"

St. Louis Rams vs. Philadelphia Eagles Sunday, 10\/5\/14, 1:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Philadelphia -8 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Philadelphia -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 48.5 Current Total:\u00a0 47.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker St. Louis has alternated wins and losses in its first three games of the season, as it comes off a bye week and expects […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[5425,31,3584,344,863,5459],"class_list":["post-35604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-lesean-mccoy","tag-nfl","tag-nick-foles","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-st-louis-rams","tag-zac-stacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35604","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=35604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35605,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35604\/revisions\/35605"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}