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It’s a possible NFC championship game preview on Monday night, but if you look at both of these teams (who met in the playoffs last season), the first half of the 2025 campaign has been underwhelming for each.

The Eagles have the 6-2 record to back up preseason expectations, but, for lack of a better summary, the vibes hadn’t been quite right in Philadelphia leading up to last week’s bye. Meanwhile, the Packers feel like they’re a contender, but a 5-2-1 record features some thoroughly head-scratching performances. The most recent came just last week as they were victims of arguably the biggest upset of the season, losing at home to the Panthers as 13.5-point favorites.

With the Eagles and Packers marching alongside one another in the betting market’s power ratings for most of the season, a shift in the line over the weekend might have to do with some personnel moves on each side.

Odds courtesy of BetMGM.

Philadelphia Eagles at Green Bay Packers (-1, 45.5)

An opening line of Packers -2.5 implied that oddsmakers expected bettors to be of the opinion that Green Bay is just shy of one point better than Philadelphia (with a point-and-a-half or more for home-field advantage) — and from last Sunday to Friday, that was true.

The betting market can be a funny thing, as nothing tangible happened over the weekend to trigger bettors’ interest in the Eagles. However, enough respected money has been bet on Philadelphia to pull this game down to a pick’em at some books.

Maybe it was as simple as sharp money getting around to this game, because, if you really think about each team — and the expectation for where, within their range, they might perform on Monday night — there’s a pretty salient argument for a high-end performance from the Eagles, and a low-end one for the Packers.

The Eagles are coming off a bye week that marks the literal midway-point of the season. Regardless of Philly’s record to this point, the latter half is all that matters to that organization. To wit, GM Howie Roseman made a handful of trade deadline deals to address the Eagles’ issues in pass-rusher depth and at third (and fourth) cornerback. He might have literally too many players on Monday if Nolan Smith returns to the lineup as well.

One of the Eagles’ worst games of the season — a Week 6 loss at the Giants — came when CB Quinyon Mitchell (who’s played every snap during non-garbage time) was only on the field for 19 plays, and DT Jalen Carter was out. A team that was rated like the defending Super Bowl champions that they are hasn’t had a roster on that level at any point this season.

• Week 1: Carter was ejected before the first play

• Week 2: Dallas Goedert was out

• Week 3: Mostly healthy (beat the Rams)

• Week 4: Nolan Smith and Adoree Jackson out

• Week 5: Smith and Jackson out

• Week 6: Landon Dickerson, Carter, Smith out

• Week 7: Nolan Smith and Za’Darius Smith out

• Week 8: A.J. Brown, Jackson, Smith and Smith out

The Packers haven’t been blessed with maximum health, losing WR Jayden Reed in Week 2, but they knew WR Christian Watson wouldn’t return until midway through the season. Defensively, missing DT Devonte Wyatt for a couple games was more than made up for by the bonus addition of DE Micah Parsons just before the season, which sent the Packers’ power rating in the market through the roof. Since winning and covering twice in five days to start the season, the Packers have just one point spread cover since, which required a nine-point halftime comeback in Pittsburgh.

Now the injuries are piling up in Green Bay, with burgeoning star TE Tucker Kraft out for the season, and right tackle Zach Tom questionable, the Packers may have to adapt on the fly on Monday night. That’s something the Eagles have done regularly this season, only to finally find enough stability to warrant the line move.

Pick: Eagles +1

Player props

Jalen Hurts: Over 194.5 passing yards (-115)

No. 1 cornerback Kaisean Nixon has been disappointing in coverage, and Carrington Valentine has been in and out of the lineup on a game-to-game basis. Neither player is a particularly dissuasive matchup against Brown or DeVonta Smith, and no defense has allowed more pass receptions to opposing tight ends (7.0 per game) than the Packers. Hurts can find Goedert to extend drives while also challenging Green Bay’s secondary down the field, similar to last season’s opener when he threw for 278 yards in a Week 1 shootout. The Packers should force the Eagles to open the playbook, and Hurts should able to execute for big plays.

RB Josh Jacobs under 69.5 rushing yards (-118)

While he doesn’t need to get to 90 yards to clear his rushing total, it may be telling that Jacobs has hit that number just once this season (against the porous Bengals defense), after doing so five times last season.

Between the drift toward a more pass-heavy approach for the Packers’ offense with their fleet of receiving options, and a snap-split that’s become more 60-40 between he and the other Green Bay tailbacks, Jacobs hasn’t had 20 carries in a game since their Week 5 bye after twice getting that type of workload beforehand.

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When the Eagles are at their best (and healthiest), their run defense puts teams in passing situations and their offense holds the ball long enough to create impatience when the opponent finally gets the ball back. If our assumption is a high-end effort from the Eagles in prime time, that should translate into relatively limited opportunity for Jacobs, who hasn’t broken a run for more than 19 yards all season.

WR Romeo Doubs over 4.5 receptions (-105)

What is Jordan Love going to do without Tucker Kraft — his most reliable pass-catcher (32 receptions on 44 targets)? Probably look more to another big-bodied option, and his second-most reliable receiver (34 receptions on 52 targets).

Partially because of Kraft’s exit, and partly due to a competitive game-script, Love targeted Doubs 10 times last week, the fourth time in the last five games that Doubs had at least eight balls thrown his way.

With enough receivers available to allow Doubs to move around the formation, the Packers should create enough good matchups for Love to look his way the usual amount of times, which should translate to five or more catches.

Anytime touchdown

Jalen Hurts: Over 1.5 passing touchdowns (+140)

Rather than guess who gets the ball thrown to them or pay the vig on either Saquon Barkley or Hurts to run one in, let’s take the plus-money on Hurts to throw two touchdowns.

After starting the season without a passing touchdown, perhaps teams have loaded up the box in the red zone, and/or dared Hurts to beat them from further out. In either case, he’s done it, with two-plus touchdown passes in five of his last six games, and seven total in the two games heading into the Eagles’ bye week.

Christian Watson (+300)

After a 10% bump in snaps played from the first game of his season in Week 8 to the next one in Week 9, Watson should find himself as the No. 2 receiver, regardless of how many are available at the position to play.

The Packers’ best deep threat, Watson has already caught a 33-yard pass and a 52-yarder, but neither found the end zone. The Eagles’ safeties can be taken advantage of over the top, and Watson’s size makes him a good red zone target — as evidenced by his 14 touchdowns in 38 career games before this season.

Luke Musgrave (+333)/John FitzPatrick (+850)

Just because Kraft (scorer of six touchdowns this season) is out doesn’t mean Matt LaFleur threw out the “tight end chapter” of the playbook. Musgrave was drafted ahead of Kraft in 2023, and, until he suffered injuries in his rookie season that put Kraft into the spotlight, Musgrave was actually the more highly-regarded player and should be able to do a reasonable impression of Kraft within the Packers’ offense. 

Meanwhile, John FitzPatrick shifts one spot forward to the No. 2 tight end role. Of the two, he is actually the one with a touchdown already. Splitting a unit across the two leftover Green Bay tight ends is a good way to potentially capitalize on the Packers’ coping without Kraft.

You can find more valuable betting analysis from Yahoo Sports betting contributor, Matt Russell, at THE WINDOW.

Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is unquestionably one of the best to ever do it. The long-time veteran is almost certain to cruise into the Pro Football Hall of Fame the instant he's eligible. 

When that happens, Sunday's game film won't be a part of that highlight package. 

Rodgers was miserable during the team's 25-10 loss to the Los Angeles Chargers on Sunday night. He was skittish when under pressure and missed some throws he normally makes during the loss. A garbage-time touchdown was the only thing that saved Rodgers from potentially posting his career-worst passer rating. It was truly a game to forget. 

Rodgers acknowledged as much after the contest, saying he has "got to play better," per Brooke Pryor of ESPN.

"This was not my best performance," he said. "I got to play better than this for us to win. Whatever it takes ... if it's better checks, if it's better throws, whatever it is, I got to play better. I will. ... We got to play better on offense, for sure. But this is part of the season. There's ebbs and flows, there's ups and downs, and we can't ride the wave."

Rodgers, 41, took responsibility for missing some throws during the game. He had two interceptions in the contest, one of which was a throw Rodgers sailed over the head of D.K. Metcalf. The second pick wasn't on Rodgers, as the ball bounced off the hands of Donte Jackson. It was emblematic of the way the team's offense played Sunday night. Rodgers summed it up well, saying, "A lot of stuff wasn't working."

Mike Tomlin also offered up a blunt assessment of Rodgers' play. When asked how he would evaluate Rodgers, Tomlin said, "How would you," before moving on to the next question.

While Rodgers has experienced strong moments this season, the Steelers haven't seen a drastic improvement on offense. After getting rid of both Justin Fields and Russell Wilson in the offseason, the Steelers rank 16th in points per game. With Fields and Wilson, the Steelers ranked ... 16th in points per game last year. 

Rodgers has put up better numbers than both Fields and Wilson, but the veteran hasn't lifted the team's offense to new heights. While Rodgers is occasionally capable of reaching into the past and dazzling with a throw or two, he's also capable of looking like a beat-up, 41-year-old.

The Steelers need the former version of Rodgers to appear far more often down the stretch. Following Sunday's loss, Pittsburgh holds a one-game lead over the surging Baltimore Ravens in the AFC North. With Lamar Jackson back and performing well, one misstep from Rodgers down the stretch is all the Ravens need to take back the division after giving the Steelers a massive head start.