Bet365 Sportsbook bonus code: Philadelphia Eagles futures, Jalen Hurts props, and 2023 season preview
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The 2022 season was a smashing — and nearly Super — success for the Philadelphia Eagles, who posted a league-best 14-3 regular-season record and fell only three points short in Super Bowl LVII.
Can Philly avoid the notorious Big Game loser’s hangover and make a strong run at the franchise’s second Lombardi Trophy in the last seven seasons?
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Sorry Philly fans, the Super Bowl runner-up curse is an actual thing.
Of the last 25 Big Game losing teams, 11 missed the playoffs the following season and only one — the 2018 New England Patriots — made it back to the Super Bowl.
Recent history also says repeating as NFC East champs is far from a given as the division hasn’t featured a back-to-back champion since the 2003-04 Eagles.
In 2022, all four NFC East teams finished .500 or better. Three made the playoffs, and all three notched at least one postseason win.
The 2023 Eagles, though, aim to soar above it all.
But they’ll have to do it with new offensive (Brian Johnson) and defensive (Sean Desai) coordinators and seven new starters from their Super Bowl LVII lineup, including five on defense.
Anything close to a repeat performance from QB Jalen Hurts would go a long way in smoothing over any warts.
In 2022, Hurts broke out big time with 3,701 passing yards, 760 rushing yards, and 35 total touchdowns, including 13 on the ground in only his second full season as a starter. He then tacked on 579 passing yards, 143 rushing yards, and eight more TDs in three postseason games.
Hurts finished second in the league’s MVP voting and would have been the Super Bowl MVP had Philadelphia flipped the script and edged QB Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs.
The schedule is more daunting, though, this season, particularly a brutal late-season stretch in which the Eagles will play seven straight games against 2022 playoff qualifiers. That span includes the home-and-home dates with the NFC East rival Dallas Cowboys, a home NFC title game rematch against the San Francisco 49ers, and a road Super Bowl rematch vs. the Chiefs.
Can Hurts and Philly scale the mountain again — but this time celebrate on the summit?
Here, we go inside the numbers with some analysis of the key Bet365 2023 Eagles futures odds:
Philadelphia has won nine and 14 games, respectively, in head coach Nick Sirianni’s two seasons, qualifying for the playoffs each time.
Bank on some regression, though, after the franchise-record 14 victories of a season ago with the coaching and roster departures being felt.
But even with a first-place schedule and playing in the rugged NFC East, it’s tough to envision — barring Hurts missing time with a serious injury — the Eagles losing seven or more games in 2023.
That’s what it would take for Philly to finish under its win total, and that’s why we’re going with the heavily juiced over.
Even playing in one of the league’s strongest top-to-bottom divisions, the Eagles own Bet365′s fourth-shortest division title odds at -120.
The 2021 East-champion Cowboys, who have finished 12-5 in each of the last seasons, are +180 to regain the division crown, followed by the Giants (+700) and the Washington Commanders (+1200).
Two of the Eagles’ three regular-season losses came at the hands of division foes last season, but we still like the chances of Philly becoming the first repeat NFC East champ in nearly two decades.
As mentioned above, recent history tells us that a full 44 percent (11 of the last 25) of losing Super Bowl teams miss the playoffs the next season.
But we’re not buying it with the 2023 Eagles — particularly since they do reside in the weaker of the two conferences.
Philadelphia has made the postseason in five of the last six seasons and almost certainly will make it six of seven.
You’ll have to pay a steep -450 price, though, to bet the “yes,” so it’s a pass here unless you don’t mind tying up that much of your preseason futures bankroll.
At 3-1 odds, Philadelphia is not only the NFC’s preseason favorite but also owns the shortest conference title odds in the entire league with the Chiefs and 49ers next at +350.
And with San Francisco’s lingering QB question mark and the Cowboys (third in the NFC odds at +600) having not advanced past the divisional playoff round since 1995, we like the Eagles’ chances of defying the standing trend and becoming only the second Super Bowl runner-up in the last 26 years to make it back to the Big Game.
As for winning it all, though, Philly has the second-shortest Bet365 Super Bowl odds with the Chiefs favored to repeat at +600. At 8-1 as the top NFC favorite, it’s certainly worth a token bet, but we’re passing for the most part on the Eagles’ outright title odds.
We mentioned above, for the record, that Hurts did finish second in the 2022 NFL MVP voting.
But it was a distant second with Hurts only garnering one first-place vote out of the 50 and finishing nearly 300 voting points behind Mahomes (193 to 490). QBs Josh Allen (one first-place vote, 151 points) and Joe Burrow (128 points) were hot on Hurts’ trail.
Examining Hurts’ 2022 stats, some of his most impressive numbers seem ripe for regression — particularly his 1.3 percent interception rate (tied for fourth-lowest in the league) and his 13 rushing TDs (tied for second).
We also don’t see Hurts winning a whopping 93.3 percent of his starts (14-1) as he did in 2022.
Hurts’ 165 rushing attempts paced all quarterbacks last season. But it was also on one late-season QB sneak that Hurts sustained a shoulder injury that kept him out two games, both of which were Philadelphia losses.
As a result, the number of designed Hurts runs going forward likely will need to be monitored and/or curtailed by the Eagles’ staff.
The 12-1 Hurts MVP payoff is tempting as the player with the fourth-shortest current odds, but it’s a pass here.
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