Week 9 Sunday starts with breakfast football from Spain and rolls right into one of the strangest NFC East games of the season. Cincinnati faces Atlanta at the Santiago Bernabéu at 9:30 a.m. ET, and the Giants arrive in Philadelphia as road favorites over the struggling Eagles at 1 p.m. ET. Fanatics Sportsbook is offering new users promo code FOXNEWS350 to bet $20 and get $350 in FanCash on either game or anything else on the board.
On paper, this is a mismatch. Cincinnati is 5-2 with three straight wins, Joe Burrow leads the league’s top passing attack, and the Bengals convert third downs better than anyone in football. Atlanta is 3-5 and coming off a four-interception game in Tampa.
But international games rarely play to form. Both teams are dealing with a long flight, a time change and an unfamiliar surface at a soccer stadium. Atlanta is technically the home team, and Bijan Robinson gives the Falcons a way to slow the game down and keep Burrow off the field. Cincinnati’s defense has also been leaky lately, including 36 points allowed to Tennessee.
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The Pick: Falcons +3.5. The hook matters here. The Bengals will be the popular side, but a sloppy early kickoff overseas tends to produce close games, and a field goal plus the hook gives Atlanta plenty of room. Take the points.
Two months ago, nobody would have predicted this line. The Giants are 4-2-1, rested after a bye and favored on the road. The Eagles are 2-6, have lost six in a row and have been without Jalen Hurts since mid-October. Last week’s 27-10 loss in Washington was another ugly result for a team that’s been outscored by 65 points this season.
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The Pick: Eagles +3. This is the contrarian play of the week. Everyone has seen Philadelphia’s losing streak, which is exactly why the Eagles are getting points at home against a division rival. Division games tend to be tight, a 39.5 total points to a low-scoring grind, and a desperate team at home in front of its own crowd is dangerous. Fade the narrative and take the field goal.
The public will lean toward Cincinnati’s offense and New York’s surprising record. Both picks go the other way, backing the teams getting points in games that should be closer than the market expects. With $350 in FanCash coming win or lose, Sunday is a good day to go against the crowd.
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