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Philadelphia Eagles vs. Dallas Cowboys – Playoff Pick

Before making your bet, a expert handicapper will understand that NFL Playoff teams make the Playoffs based on their body of work through the entire NFL season.

Expert Handicapping betting information for making your NFL Pick with Philadelphia Eagles vs. Dallas Cowboys (Kickoff will be 8 p.m. ET Saturday night. NFC REMATCH)

Before betting this NFL Wildcard matchup this Saturday between the Philadelphia Eagles  and the Dallas Cowboys, an expert handicapper will understand that NFL Playoff teams make the  Playoffs based on their body of work through the entire NFL season.

The recap of the last game must be a part of your expert handicapping due-diligence (such as sport injuries), but understand that that is just one game. We see Dallas has the handicapping edge here as they have won the only two matchups this season but an expert handicapper would have to evaluate some important phases of the game.

In the last Sunday’s matchup the Dallas cowboys dominated  the Philadelphia Eagles as Tony Romo threw a pair of early touchdown passes and the  Cowboy defense took over from there by shutting out the Eagles in winning 24-0. That  victory won the Dallas Cowboys the NFC East as they will host a rematch in the first  round of the NFL playoffs this Saturday night at 8pm EST. Before making any football Picks, during the playoffs,  an expert handicapper will have to look further back into the season and see that  the Eagles were riding a six-game winning streak averaging 31.2 points per game during  that span before they ran into a physical, dominating Dallas defense. The Cowboys bull rushed the Eagles’ injury-scrambled offensive line which saw no signs of a run game as  Donovan McNabb threw for 223 yards and the Eagles gained just 228 overall. The Dallas  Cowboy defense slashed through the Eagles nickel defense with runs from pass formations  that disrupted their offense.

The Cowboys caused the Eagles a flurry of miscues that included penalties, dropped balls, fumbles and Donavan missing wide open receivers. An expert handicappers’ information will point out that he Eagles have some big offensive  line problems. The Eagles have to and replace their center Jamaal Jackson who was lost to a season-ending knee injury in week 14 after 71 successive starts as well as their right  guard replacement Max Jean-Gilles whom the Cowboys abused in the second half of Sunday’s game.

Right now, it is obvious the Dallas Cowboys will be your NFL Pick in this handicapping department for the defensive as the Cowboy defense that has faced the NFL’s  three highest-scoring offenses and held all of them to their fewest points of the season  with back-to-back shutouts. Now before and expert handicapper makes his NFL Pick for the offensive side of the ball, we need to look and see who wins in the offensives  handicapping department.

Tony Romo threw touchdowns on his first and third drives going  24 of 34 for 311 yards and probably would have scored on the second drive if it wasn’t  for a pass that was tipped and intercepted inside in the 10 yard line. The Cowboys had  291 yards by halftime on their way to gaining 474 total for the game and saw Romo got  over 300 in both meetings. Romo finished this season with the most attempts, completions and yards passing ever by a Cowboys quarterback and his nine interceptions are by far the  fewest of his career. Dallas also set a record for single-season yards.

Although the  Philadelphia Eagles were scoring over 30 points a game and won six straight, there were  no signs of that against Dallas in both games this season. The Cowboys rank third in the league in total offense at 394 YPG, eighth in rushing at 128 YPG so the handicapping edge  on the offensive side of the ball would have to go to the Dallas Cowboys.

If you want to handicap history, you will see that Andy Reid has never lost his initial playoff matchup in seven postseasons while Coach Wade Phillips is 0-4 in the playoffs as the Cowboy head  coach. If you want to handicap by using betting trends, you will see that the underdog has won six of the last 10 games in the series between these two teams outright and has covered eight of the last 10 point spreads. A betting trend for the total you will see is that Philadelphia’s games are averaging a healthy 49 points this season and they’ve gone 10-5 on the totals.

Dallas games meanwhile are averaging just over 39 points and they’ve gone 6-9 on the totals. NFL money line gamblers can make a play on the favored Dallas Cowboys at –200 with the road underdog Philadelphia Eagles bringing back +170 to pull off the straight up victory without the need for getting the points. The NFC East division rivals met twice this season with the Cowboys winning both games. In their first meeting in Philadelphia on November 8th it was the Dallas Cowboys beating the Eagles 20-16 as a  three-point underdog and last week it was the Dallas Cowboys routing the Eagles 24-0 as a three-point favorite in Dallas.

Here is plenty of handicapping information to get you  closer to the right side and to find out the inside information for this Eagles vs. Dallas matchup, go to Free Sports Picks to get your side and total winner on this game.