Thursday Night Football Picks: Philadelphia Eagles vs New York Giants NFL Predictions 10/22/20

The New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles meet Thursday in week 7 NFL action at Lincoln Financial Field.

The New York Giants have a chance to win back-to-back games for the first time since December of last year. The New York Giants have lost eight of their last nine road games. Daniel Jones is completing 61.2 percent of his passes for 1,223 yards, three touchdowns and six interceptions. Jones has one touchdown pass in his last five games. Darius Slayton and Evan Engram have combined for 583 receiving yards and three touchdowns while Golden Tate has 19 receptions. The New York Giants ground game is averaging 87.8 yards per contest, and Jones leads the way with 204 yards on 27 carries. Defensively, New York is allowing 25.3 points and 342 yards per game. Blake Martinez leads the New York Giants with 64 tackles, Leonard Williams has three sacks and James Bradberry has two interceptions.

The Philadelphia Eagles need a victory here to rebound from a rough 1-4-1 start to the NFL season. The Philadelphia Eagles are winless in five of their last seven home games. Carson Wentz is completing 58.7 percent of his passes for 1,401 yards, eight touchdowns and nine interceptions. Wentz has two or more touchdown passes in six of his last 11 games. Travis Fulgham and Greg Ward have combined for 475 receiving yards and five touchdowns while Zach Ertz has 24 receptions. The Philadelphia Eagles ground game is averaging 122.3 yards per contest, and Miles Sanders leads the way with 434 yards and three touchdowns. Defensively, Philadelphia is allowing 29.2 points and 355.2 yards per game. Nathan Gerry leads the Philadelphia Eagles with 49 tackles, Brandon Graham has five sacks and Alex Singleton has one interception.

The Giants are 19-7 ATS in their last 26 road games, 17-5 ATS in their last 22 games as a road underdog and 0-4 ATS in their last 4 Thursday games. The Eagles are 5-0 ATS in their last 5 Thursday games, 0-4 ATS in their last 4 games as a favorite and 2-5 ATS in their last 7 games overall. The over is 9-4 in Giants last 13 road games. The under is 8-2 in Eagles last 10 home games. The road team is 4-0 ATS in their last 4 meetings.

The New York Giants continue to compete, as five of their six games this season were decided by 10 or less points, and they finally were able to close the deal last week with a win over Washington. The Philadelphia Eagles have just one win this season as well, but they went toe-to-toe with the Steelers and Ravens in back-to-back weeks and have to feel better about the way they’re playing. The Eagles are the better team, they’re playing the better football and they’ve won each of the last seven meetings against the Giants. While they won last week, the Giants still feel like a bottom feeding team that’s going to be climbing uphill most weeks. There’s still flashes of promise with the Eagles and you feel like they can climb out of this whole with the roster they have.

I’ll take the Eagles in this game by a touchdown.