Hey friends, welcome in to the Early Edge here with R.J. White in studio. I'm Claudia Velafada. Will Brinson will be joining us. This is the week six edition brought to you by BetMGM. The sportsbook board in Vegas make it legendary. We'll bring Will in here. We're going to run through Thursday night football bets first and then get to the entirety of the week six late. I do have to mention off the top here. It was a week for the dogs guys in week five. Dogs went nine and five, not only covering the spread, but also outright, RJ. Yeah, and wiping out a lot of survivor entries along the way.

I know the two most popular survivor entries in the Circus Survivor were eliminated.

So it's going to be an interesting week moving forward for that pool.

And six double-digit comebacks.

It was a sweat pretty much every other game, Will.

Yeah, I mean, we saw, you know, the Panthers looked like they were dead against the dolphins.

The Titans were gift-wrapped by the Cardinals, a win there.

As RJ mentioned, survivor pools wiped out.

Like 60% of every survivor pool was taken out in week five between Thursday and Sunday.

How are you doing, RJ? We good? I'm out. I had the Rams. It was an unfortunate loss. It felt like it should have been a win, but you know, you're going to have those every every year. You will. You will. Will? How you doing? I had six entries in total across a couple different pools. Three on the Rams. Obviously, those are dead. Three on the cults who look very, very much legitimate. And so still a little alive in those, but feeling

a little nervous. All right. So if you're out there and you're not in Survivor anymore,

you've lost any other contests, there's always Thursday night football, which we have tomorrow.

We've got the Eagles. We've got the Giants. Eagles laying

seven and a half in this spot on the road. Total at 41. Eagles coming off their first loss to the

Broncos. We're sort of seeing that non-explosiveness, lack of offense catch up to them against a tough

defense there. Giants coming off a loss to the Saints struggling clearly without Malik neighbors. We sort of knew that was going to happen. RJ, I'll come to you first. Of course, we're getting over that key number of seven. The look ahead was seven. Where do you lean here? Yeah, I'm leaning to the Giants. The power ratings say that seven and a half is the right number, but we might still be overrating Philly a bit. I mean, they have a negative 0.9 yards per play differential. That's worse than the Giants. And everybody considers the Giants as one of the worst teams over the first five weeks. So their loss to the Saints was closer than the final score. It came down to one long pass, one fumble, long fumble return for a touchdown, and five turnovers overall.

And I don't think the turnover issues are going to be that extreme very often. So if they protect the ball here, they might even be live for an outright upset and mess up some more survivor pool. So we'll see if that happens. Will, do we agree? I know you're taking the points. Could you see an outright win here? Yeah, I think that's entirely possible. Well, I remember Phillies, you know, we look at the yards per play.

I mean, 29th in the NFL. right win here? Yeah, I think that's entirely possible. I remember Philly, you know, we look at

the yards per play. I mean, 29th in the NFL. This offense has not been very good. It's been very

predictable, too. There's some stats out there. Like when Jalen Hertz is in shotgun, they're passing

70% of the time when he's under center, they're running 80% of the time, et cetera. And so the play calling hasn't developed the way that we thought it would, just natural attrition through, you know, winning a lot of games and your play caller moves on, Kellanmore. It's clearly been a huge difference with him in New Orleans this year. And I just think, to RJ's point, if you watch that Giant Saints game, I mean, there's just some turnovers that you aren't going to see every week from the Giants. It also looks at Darius Slateon ruled out for this game, but Tyrone Tracy back, I think that helps the run game quite a bit. And I just think even though it's been, Donovan McNabb was a quarterback of the Eagles the last time that the Giants beat them in primetime, which is insane. And obviously, Eli Manning, the quarterback for the Giants in. So I don't know when is necessarily likely here, but I do think the Giants can find a way to cover it against a very, the Eagles seem that lacks explosion. Yeah, it certainly feels like a lot of points, especially when I'm looking at the total, which I'm going to go under on at 41. We already talked about all the issues with the Eagles. They lead the league in negative plays. You know, their bottom 10 in pace. I think they're going to slow it down and give the ball to the only real consistent guy, although Barclay hasn't had a ton going for him on the ground.

I see the Eagles slowing it down. And then when it comes to the Giants, you talked about Tracy. We know Malik Neighbors is out. It's just going to be Scataboo, Theo Johnson, short-yard and check-down situations. Because that's the best way to really protect the ball in my mind. I still like this Giants front. I think that could give Jalen Hertz, who has been seeing some decent pressure or some issues.

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