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 just some days away.

Based on FanDuel Sportsbook, the Chiefs are 1.5-point betting favorites — however in line with 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 would persuade me to guess 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 a powerful 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 recreation.

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

I could have simply criticized Hurts however I do assume he’s a strong guess for MVP at +350 odds as a result of he’s so closely concerned close to the aim line. If the Eagles win, there’s a very good likelihood it’s as a result of Saquon Barkley went nuclear, however I believe there’s nearly pretty much 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 deal with Milton Williams at +75000 odds. Jalen Carter at +10000 odds looks like good worth too, however the purpose I like Williams is as a result of he sometimes strains up throughout from left guards; perhaps Philadelphia will shift Carter to the opposite facet of the road to benefit from Kansas Metropolis’s Mike Caliendo, or perhaps they’ll hold Carter the place he’s snug, which might permit Williams to pin his ears again towards a mushy spot in Caliendo. Williams is an effective move 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 successful $750 on a $1 guess.

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