It is hard to tell whether Philadelphia is lucky or whether things are just evening out this year. \u00a0This team has three wins by a combined 4 points and an ugly loss to Arizona. \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/p>\n
Philadelphia Eagles (3-1) vs Pittsburgh Steelers (1-2) ATS Matchup Stats<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Gambling Insight!<\/a> |\u00a0Buy Ray’s Picks!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Philadelphia<\/strong><\/p>\n If they really are elite than they should rise up to beat a Pittsburgh team that hasn\u2019t shown much yet. \u00a0The Eagles with their \u201cDream Team\u201d may not crushing anybody but I am sure they are happy about not having to talk about losing.<\/p>\n For the Eagles to continue winning they have to keep QB Mike Vick healthy. \u00a0He got banged up on the final drive of their win against the Giants and you can bet the hard hitting Steelers will take aim. \u00a0It is hard not to enjoy watching LeSean McCoy who just might be the best back in football. \u00a0He was super last week against NY but will be facing a Steelers defense that just got some reinforcements back from injury.<\/p>\n Though they are in-state rivals these two only get together once every four years with the home team winning the last two. \u00a0Because Philly has been winning by such small margins they have yet to cover a spread this year but this will be their first game where they are not the favourite. \u00a0Facing a rested Steelers team on the road seems like a difficult situation to get your first cover.<\/p>\n Pittsburgh<\/strong><\/p>\n The Steelers never seem to jump out of the starting gate. \u00a0This year they had an early bye week and it might have been just what the doctor ordered as they get three key players back in James Harrison, Troy Polamalu and Rashard Mendenhall. \u00a0Losing at Denver to start the season was acceptable but the defense looked tired in giving up 13 4th quarter points to Oakland in their loss in Week 3. [soliloquy id=”82219″]<\/p>\n Against Oakland Big Ben threw for 384 yards with 4 TDs and no interceptions and it wasn\u2019t enough. \u00a0The Steelers rushed for just 54 yards and you have to think that if they had been more effective on the ground they might have been able to grind out the victory. \u00a0The return of Mendenhall will hopefully help but if they can get better defensive play they can also keep pace with an Eagles attack that hasn\u2019t wowed this season.<\/p>\n With coach Mike Tomlin it seems like the Steelers should be a good post bye week team. \u00a0I normally think having that week so early in the season isn\u2019t ideal but I think in this case it is exactly what the doctor ordered. \u00a0A fresher, healthier Steelers team will announce that their demise was premature.<\/p>\n Spread Pick: \u00a0Pittsburgh -3 Eagles vs Steelers NFL Football Spread\/Handicapping It is hard to tell whether Philadelphia is lucky or whether things are just evening out this year. \u00a0This team has three wins by a combined 4 points and an ugly loss to Arizona. \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":33036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[51571,4898,10717,844,2897,2127,56683,47602,1789,2910],"class_list":["post-55822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl","tag-eagles-vs-steelers","tag-nfl-football-odds","tag-nfl-football-predictions","tag-nfl-picks","tag-nfl-week-5-lines","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-philadelphia-eagles-vs-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-philadelphia-vs-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-week-5-free-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55822"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55888,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55822\/revisions\/55888"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSunday October 7
\nHeinz Field – Pittsburgh, PA
\n1:00PM
\nMoneyline: \u00a0Pittsburgh -175, Philadelphia +155 From: Bovada<\/a>
\nSpread: \u00a0Pittsburgh -3
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\nO\/U Pick: \u00a0Over
\nScore Prediction: \u00a0Pittsburgh 31 – Philadelphia 17<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"