It’s not easy making it back to the Super Bowl, especially the season after losing one. The Philadelphia Eagles begin that long trek back despite so much history, data, and trends working against them. It starts right away against the Baltimore Ravens and John Harbaugh – the one guy in the NFL most serious about winning these games. In this post, we’ll be looking out our best Eagles-Ravens parlay bets.
The data here will focus more on what the Ravens do in the preseason, but there’s a harsh reality for anyone looking to back the Birds in this game – one that bettors should use in keeping their distance from backing Jalen Hurts. Mainly because Hurts isn’t even expected to play. Here is the best bet across the entire Ravens-Eagles game for August 12th!
Best Ravens-Eagles Parlays Bets
Numbers don’t lie, so anyone pushing some narrative that Harbaugh doesn’t care about winning these games is full of crap. The Ravens are 21-2-1 over their last 24 preseason games, including a ridiculous 13-1 SU and 12-2 ATS in home openers. It’s like they purposely want to put on a show in front of their fans no matter how deep they go down the depth chart.
Harbaugh – a former Eagles special teams coach – is far removed from any revenge scenario, in fact, he doesn’t need any extra motivation to win preseason openers as he’s 9-1 over his last 10. This is Baltimore and they win preseason games under Harbaugh. There’s nothing new under the sun there, so the biggest factor is what’s already added to that mixture – the Eagles.
Nobody in Philadelphia wants to see Hurts go down as there is a significant gap between him and anyone else on the depth chart. Marcus Mariota has been flat out terrible in camp and should see a lot of work against the Ravens. The team relies so much on Hurts to open their offense that not having him on the field relegates them to a mediocre squad at best. They are also last year’s Super Bowl loser, an unenviable place to be in both pre and regular seasons.
Teams coming off a Super Bowl loss are just 10-20 SU / 6-23-1 ATS in preseason openers since 1992. To make it worse for Philly, it drops to 3-16 ATS if their opponent won two or more preseason games the previous year. That would certainly be the Ravens. Don’t expect many points in this game but the Ravens will walk away winners regardless.
Best Eagles-Ravens Parlay Bet: Ravens -4.5 / Under 36 Same Game Parlay
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