Cowboys vs. Eagles Week 7 Betting Odds, MNF Prediction and Picks: NFC East Rivals Meet in Must-Win Spot
It’s not exactly the best Monday Night Football matchup of the season to conclude Week 7 as a pair of massively disappointing 2-4 teams face off when the Dallas Cowboys visit Philadelphia. Sans their starting QB, the Eagles are +4.5 on the NFL odds with a total of 44.5.
Cowboys vs. Eagles Kickoff, Weather, TV, Streaming Info
In Canada, Cowboys vs. Eagles kicks off Monday at 8:15 p.m. ET and will be available on TSN. The game can also be streamed nationwide on DAZN through NFL Game Pass.
These NFC East rivals have had a few memorable weather games over the year, but it shouldn’t be much of an issue on Monday in Philadelphia. A few clouds from time to time. It’ll be about 8°C, with winds of roughly 8 to 16 km/h.
NFL Betting Odds, Point Spread, Trends
If this were later in the season, it likely would be flexed out with each team sitting at 2-4 – although Dallas and Philadelphia are annually two of the NFL’s biggest TV draws. Monday night games can’t be flexed until Week 12.
The NFC East is a running joke at this point as in Weeks 5-6, it became the first division since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger to go winless across back-to-week weeks in which all four teams played. So that mediocrity is the only thing saving the Cowboys and Eagles right now.
But Philadelphia has lost starting QB Jalen Hurts for the season after doctors out of nowhere discovered multiple blood clots in his lungs. He was initially diagnosed with what was described as a superficial blood clot in his calf that kept him out of Week 5. So, the Eagles might be active ahead of the coming trade deadline with things going so south. Hurts is expected to make a full recovery for next season. He hasn’t missed more than two games in a campaign since becoming Philadelphia’s starter in 2021.
This marks the first of two meetings between the NFC East rivals, with the Eagles in Texas on the American Thanksgiving. They split two meetings last season, each winning at home.
NFL Player Odds and Props
Back Dallas running back Javonte Wiliams for an anytime TD. His seven rushing TDs are the most by a Cowboys player through six games since 1995. And I expect inexperienced Eagles QB Tanner McKee to throw an interception.
Dallas Cowboys
It’s the same old story with the Cowboys as really these days if they don’t score at least 24 points, they have no chance with such a porous defence. They lost a second straight game Sunday night in Week 6, 23-13 in Green Bay. That’s back-to-back games scoring under 20 points for the first time in QB Dak Prescott’s starts since 2019. The Cowboys were shut out in the first half for the first time since Week 9 of the 2021 season. Prescott attempted a whopping 54 passes and managed only 258 yards and one TD with two picks. It was the first time he averaged fewer than 5 yards per attempt and had multiple picks since Week 3 of the 2018 season. Dallas abandoned the running game and has now dropped five straight primetime matchups. The 2-4 start is the team’s worst since 2020. Pro Bowl returner KaVontae Turpin injured his rib on the opening kickoff and was unable to return.
Philadelphia Eagles
Backup QB Tanner McKee got his first start of the season Sunday, and it didn’t go very well in a 25-14 home loss to Carolina. The 26-year-old was OK in completing 26 of 45 for 215 yards with a TD, but Philly had only 222 total yards and zero running game without injured running back Saquon Barkley – too early to know if he will play this week. McKee is now 1-2 as a starter in the league and presumably is the guy the rest of the way unless the Eagles add via trade or free agency. The team also has fifth-round rookie Cole Payton out of North Dakota State. Philadelphia’s four-game losing streak is the team’s longest since 2020, and it hasn’t dropped five in a row since 2016. The Eagles have three straight games averaging under 4.0 yards per play, their worst such run since 1999. Their offensive line is a disaster right now, too, as McKee was pressured on over 40% of his dropbacks in Sunday’s loss.
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