AFC East Showdown on Sunday Night: Patriots vs. Dolphins
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00:02 - An AFC East divisional matchup out there in Foxborough,
00:07 New England hosting Miami.
00:09 The Dolphins now DRS, a four field goal favorite,
00:13 that very key number, flatly on three.
00:16 The over under 46 and a half.
00:19 Of course, Donnie, the Finns were one of the most
00:21 impressive teams last week, going on the road,
00:23 coming from behind, beating Los Angeles
00:27 by scoring 36 points against the Chargers.
00:29 A 36-34 victory outright as a field goal underdog.
00:34 The Patriots made it interesting against
00:36 a sluggish Philadelphia offense in the second half
00:39 last week, but the Pats ultimately losing 25 to 20,
00:43 not covering as a home underdog.
00:46 Can they make it a little bit better as a home underdog?
00:49 That being New England DRS here against Miami
00:52 on Sunday Night Football.
00:53 - Yeah, I'm looking for a good fight in this one, I am.
00:55 The one thing we do know, the Patriots have a pretty
00:56 solid second there, and that's really what you need
00:58 to be looking for, and you're going up against Waddle
01:00 and Tyree Killed to a tag of Iloa, throwing for well
01:02 over 400 yards, and were electric last week.
01:05 This game is on turf, and hopefully we don't have
01:07 that rainy environment that we saw last week in Foxborough,
01:10 which could help out the Miami Dolphins here.
01:12 Now granted, if you're taking a look at this game overall,
01:15 you're saying to yourself, the Fandles Sportsbook
01:16 opened up this line at minus two, and it rose
01:18 to minus three, and rightfully so.
01:20 The betting markets are watching the Miami Dolphins
01:22 right now, when healthy, saying, ooh, they are that
01:24 it team, and probably rightfully so.
01:26 But the thing I do want to take away here is,
01:28 even last week, like the Philadelphia Eagles were
01:29 full goal last week for most part of that game.
01:31 Front line was healthy, and the Kobe Dean played most
01:34 of that game, and Bradbury didn't get injured
01:35 until very late in that game, so the Eagles had
01:37 a full secondary, along with Blankenship.
01:39 The reason I'm bringing that up is, that's a pretty
01:41 good defense when healthy for the Philadelphia Eagles,
01:43 and you saw signs of life there when Mac Jones
01:46 threw in for over 300 yards.
01:47 Am I looking for a repeat performance?
01:49 Do you want to get into a shootout with the Miami Dolphins?
01:51 Not necessarily, Ben, but we're crazy to think
01:54 that if the New England game plan with Bill O'Brien
01:56 is to run the football and run the clock out,
01:58 that's not happening.
01:59 If you want to win this football game,
02:00 you gotta score points for New England.
02:02 But by the way, saying that, last week, look,
02:04 Miami Dolphins' defense wasn't all that electric
02:07 against the Chargers.
02:08 I mean, they moved up and down the field, but granted,
02:09 you got Herbert, you got a lot more weapons
02:11 on the outside perceived, and also a dominant
02:13 running back in Austin Eckler, but there's no reason
02:15 to believe that New England can't be a viable opponent
02:18 this weekend and have the Miami Dolphins on upset alert.
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