Philadelphia Eagles 2022 Season Betting Preview

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It likely will be a make-or-break 2022 season for Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Jalen Hurts as if he remains inconsistent, the team has a lot of capital in the 2023 draft to find his replacement. Let’s break down the 2022 Eagles. Here is a preview of the game for your NFL Odds.

Odds to win Super Bowl: +3300
Odds to win NFC: +1400
Odds to win NFC East: +160
Over/under win total: 9.5

Philadelphia Eagles 2022 Season Preview

The Eagles were 3-6 at one point last regular season but finished 9-8 – and that was with tanking the regular-season finale at home vs. Dallas because the team rested starters ahead of its wild-card game at Tampa Bay. The Bucs won that easily, 31-15.

Tampa Bay set the tempo from the start, with Brady leading a pair of long TD drives in the opening quarter and building the lead to 17-0 by halftime. The Bucs defense intercepted Jalen Hurts twice in the Philadelphia quarterback’s playoff debut. Hurts finished his playoff debut 23 of 43 passing for 258 yards. He ran for a team-high 39 yards on eight attempts, with the Eagles finishing with 95 yards rushing overall — well below their season average of 159.7 per game.

Hurts did have good fantasy numbers but was rather inconsistent overall. Hurts went a middling 8-7 as a starter. He was an effective dual-threat quarterback but completed just 61.3 percent of his passes. He ranked 22nd in passer rating (87.2). Hurts led the team with 784 yards and 10 yards rushing, becoming the eighth quarterback in NFL history to throw for more than 3,000 yards and run for more than 750.

“I think there were games where I played at a really high-level last year, and then there were games where it wasn’t the same guy from the week before. Simply put, it’s consistency. I think being consistent will make things elite around here, it will make me elite, it will make this offense elite. And that’s on all levels, that’s on every position,” he said of last year.

If the Eagles can’t win now and if Hurts fails to improve in Year 3—his second season as a full-time starter—Philadelphia will likely seek alternatives. Hurts will be entering the final year of his rookie contract in 2023 and will be a prime candidate to serve as a one-year bridge to a rookie-to-be-drafted.

Philly’s biggest offseason move was trading a first-round pick for Titans wideout AJ Brown and then signed him to a big extension. Brown had 63 catches for 869 yards and five touchdowns in 13 games last season. He surpassed the 1,000-yard receiving mark in each of his first two seasons, including a 70-catch, 1,075-yard campaign in 2020 when he hauled in a career-best 11 TDs.

At running back Miles Sanders said he is out to get the respect he deserves. Last season, he had career-lows in carries, yards and failed to score a single touchdown. Second-year back Kenneth Gainwell figures to have a bigger role in the offense this season after scoring six touchdowns as a rookie. Gainwell was practicing with the first team at the start of training camp.

In Philadelphia, Brown will be paired alongside DeVonta Smith, last year’s 10th overall pick, to make what promises to be a formidable duo for Hurts. The Eagles also secured major upgrades to their defense with the signing of linebacker Hassan Reddick and the drafting of Georgia’s Jordan Davis in the first round and then Nakobe Dean in the third, who were both stars on the best defense in college football.

The Eagles struggled to get after quarterbacks last season – their 22.9% pressure rate ranked 29th and they ranked 31st in the NFL with just 29 sacks, matching the fewest they’ve ever had in a season since sacks became an official stat in 1982.

Reddick’s 23½ sacks over the last two seasons are 5th-most in the NFL. The Eagles haven’t had anybody with 12½ sacks in a season since Connor Barwin had 14½ in 2014, and they haven’t had anybody with double-digit sacks in consecutive seasons since Trent Cole from 2009 through 2011.

Philly opens the season in Detroit on Sept. 11 and is a 4-point favorite. That could be an upset.