Thursday Night Football Preview: Vikings at Eagles I CBS Sports

amazing start this year nine and four in week one reached his best bet, Brady, just under 500 because of that best bet, good picks, guys, okay, I told you I would make amends for last year. Well, there is a sense of sarcasm and, by the way, I know the golden rule. I know if you do well in the first week you are destined for a terrible season, usually the first week is one of the hardest and yeah you did well so I don't know I need the hot sand so come on . Start with Thursday Night Football this week, the Vikings are coming off a really disappointing home loss to the Eagles, they're not happy with how they played in New England, but they beat their favorites by seven points.

The Brady Road teams were 12-4 against the spread in week one and that's where I'm going here. I think the Minnesota Vikings obviously lost week one against Tampa, I'm not really sure what to make of that uneven performance, obviously, Kirk Cousins, Justin Jefferson, they're going to throw the ball around the run game, no. There you wonder if they missed Dalvin Cook, maybe they could have worked on some things, but defensively I think that keeps them in this game, keeps it a close game. The close game wasn't too impressed with how Philadelphia looked on the week. Anyway, there's always the Super Bowl hangover, Pete, maybe that's something Philly is dealing with, but either way I think the Eagles win at home, but I think it's a lot closer than a few points, yeah , I don't think the Vikings are going to cover. this game and here's why you're on a short week uh that's tough you're also playing a team in their first home game.

That's tough, you're playing an Eagles team, are you saying for the first few home games they get a little more juice? The players are a little more motivated, the stands are the players, okay, the fans do it, but you are also a team that didn't play well, you mentioned it, they weren't a good roster, neither team played very well, no, but the Eagles do. better than the Vikings and they didn't play well at all and Nick Sariani said, hey, we needed to play in the preseason. I'll look at it again and I think you're right, the offensive line, which is a strength, didn't play well.

They will play better. I think they will move the ball much better this time. I'll take the Eagles minus the points and I'm hot, so you might want to follow my example here today, week one. I'm going back to average. I'm surprised you didn't reference Kirk Cousins' prime time. I've made peace with Kirk since watching that show. Oh, you didn't. I'm not going to say that like it's prime time Thursday numbers, Pete, but you know what? this is a misnomer, he's 3-0 in Thursday games, yes, the last three seasons. Anyway, the way he showed up so well on that quarterback show, I thought he was, so I'll be nicer to Kirk Cousins, but it's prime time. game and you will have difficulties.

Matt Stafford is doing it for the second season, so maybe I should be nicer to him too for the way he struggled last week because he moved the ball up and down the field, turned it twice in the pocket and threw an interception so it wasn't a very good performance by them.