Tremendous Bowl LIX: Are you choosing the Chiefs or the Eagles?

This season’s Tremendous Bowl matchup between the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and the Philadelphia Eagles is only a few days away.

In line with FanDuel Sportsbook, the Chiefs are 1.5-point betting favorites — however in response to this week’s SB Nation nationwide survey outcomes, 51% of followers are choosing the Eagles towards the unfold.

My coronary heart is telling me to choose the Eagles (my dad was raised close to Philly and attended Drexel College, GO BIRDS) but my mind is telling me to choose the Chiefs.

It’s a boring and lazy take to foretell Kansas Metropolis to win as a result of they’ve Patrick Mahomes. I don’t care! The one factor that might persuade me to wager towards Mahomes within the playoffs is that if he have been enjoying outdoors Arrowhead versus a fellow top-five quarterback.

Sorry, Pops, however Jalen Hurts doesn’t qualify. I do know he had an impressive efficiency within the Tremendous Bowl between these two groups two years in the past, and I hope he’ll come near replicating it, however I’ve much more belief in Mahomes to make the additional 1-2 clutch performs it takes to win the massive sport.

Right here’s a have a look at the survey outcomes for Tremendous Bowl MVP.

I’ll have simply criticized Hurts however I do assume he’s a strong wager for MVP at +350 odds as a result of he’s so closely concerned close to the objective line. If the Eagles win, there’s a great probability it’s as a result of Saquon Barkley went nuclear, however I believe there’s virtually nearly as good an opportunity that it’s as a result of Hurts ran for 2 scores and threw for a number of extra.

My favourite longshot for MVP is Eagles defensive sort out Milton Williams at +75000 odds. Jalen Carter at +10000 odds looks as if good worth too, however the motive I like Williams is as a result of he sometimes strains up throughout from left guards; perhaps Philadelphia will shift Carter to the opposite aspect of the road to make the most of Kansas Metropolis’s Mike Caliendo, or perhaps they’ll maintain Carter the place he’s snug, which might enable Williams to pin his ears again towards a tender spot in Caliendo. Williams is an efficient cross rusher, particularly for an inside lineman, and if he can beat Caliendo and wrap up for Mahomes for a clutch sack… there’s your path for profitable $750 on a $1 wager.

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