Staff predictions: Green Bay Packers vs Philadelphia Eagles

Monday Night Football will surely mean a lot for the playoff picture in the NFC. “You just need somebody running routes, doing what they need to do, with enough speed”.

Trend: The Eagles are 5-1 SU and ATS in their last six games on a Monday. At 5-5, they are in ninth place in the NFC and trail Washington (6-3-1) for the final NFC wild-card spot. The Packers on that day needed one person who could say, “It’s my team and I’m going to do something right now to save the season”. I’m fully confident in that.

“This group of men, we’re going to get to where we want to go”.

“We’ve got to win”. We get that. It’s about results. “I’m very optimistic that he’s going to go”. Now, he just needs some help. Rookie quarterback Carson Wentz throws three TD passes, including two to wide receiver Nelson Agholor.

Instead of being the problem, however, quarterback Aaron Rodgers has become the Green Bay Packers’ last hope.

“You look for that leap from Year 1 to Year 2”, McCarthy said. I played for Dom Capers for a year when he was the head coach with Carolina. Do we have a chance? In all the games we’ve lost it’s us killing ourselves. It’s just something that it is what it is right now. Maybe Wentz has a rookie moment and loses the game for Philly, but the Packers simply do not have the manpower at present to overpower them otherwise. The associated moneylines are Philadelphia -205 and Green Bay +175. Defensively, Seattle had their way with the Eagles, racking up 439 yards of total offense with the lone highlight coming by way of a sack of Seahawks QB Russell Wilson by Vinny Curry.

After Cincinnati, the Eagles finish with the Redskins home, at Baltimore, then the Giants and Cowboys at the Linc.

There were no shortage of areas the Packers must improve on the heels of a 42-24 loss to Washington, but what gives McCarthy and the roster reason for optimism is how the locker room has stayed together through the team’s recent adversity. They have lost four games in row. Monday night marks the Packers’ third straight road game, which is an added difficulty for them.

Philadelphia is 5-5 SU and ATS as it faces questions about Wentz’s accuracy and what kind of rushing attack they can marshal if RB Darren Sproles (rib) and RB Ryan Mathews (knee) cannot play.

“It’s on me”, Kubiak said, explaining he made the move because he had confidence in his kicker. Wendell Smallwood and Kenjon Barner will be called on to carry more of the load behind a shuffled offensive line.

Top cornerback Leodis McKelvin is in the concussion protocol.

Eagles’ best-case scenario: They improve to 5-0 at Lincoln Financial Field and had the Packers their fifth straight loss.

Whether Jake Ryan can play Monday night most likely hinges on how he fares in practice over the weekend, but the Green Bay Packers’ second-year linebacker has a chance.

Rodgers sounded similarly optimistic despite a hard end-of-the-season stretch – only one of the Packers’ six remaining opponents has a losing record – and an even higher sense of urgency for a Green Bay team that hasn’t missed the playoffs since 2008, Rodgers’ first year as the starter.

CHICAGO – Marcus Mariota threw for 226 yards and two touchdowns, and the Tennessee Titans hung on to beat the depleted Chicago Bears 27-21 on Sunday.

In his past five games, the veteran has particularly heated up, tossing 15 TDs versus three picks while throwing for over 300 yards a game with a completion percentage north of 66 percent despite lacking any semblance of a consistent running game and being asked to drop back far too often. Instead, he and Jordy Nelson have almost identical stat lines – 53 receptions for 663 yards apiece, with Adams trailing Nelson 9-to-6 in touchdowns.

“We’ve really been clicking at times in the last few games”, Rodgers said.

The Packers are normally very good. You have to be sharp. A completely different team in the comforts of South Philadelphia, they’ll play four more times at home.