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Washington is the most popular bet on the board at BetMGM. More bets have been placed on the Commanders to beat the Eagles straight-up than have been placed on any other outcome in either championship game this weekend.
Washington is around a +240 underdog to win the game outright.
Washington kicked off the season as a 150-1 long shot to win the Super Bowl and drifted as long as 250-1 at sportsbooks ahead of Week 3. With a win Sunday, the Commanders would tie the 1999 St. Louis Rams for the longest preseason odds for a Super Bowl participant since the NFL adopted a 16-game schedule in 1978, according to betting archive SportsOddsHistory.com.
On Oct. 15, a day after being told he’d be sidelined the rest of the 2024 season with a torn pectoral muscle, the Washington Commanders’ eighth-year defensive tackle lay in a hospital bed in New York City and tried to process what he’d thought he just heard. Doped up on anesthesia in a post-operative recovery room, Allen had been informed by the surgeon that — in an unforeseen twist — the muscle was only 20 percent torn, which might fast-track his recovery.
He’s still experiencing pronounced pain in his surgically repaired left arm, a sensation exacerbated by opponents who’ve seemingly targeted the afflicted area.
“If I’m being honest, they probably are,” he said. “But if you go out there, you’re liable and responsible for protecting yourself. It’s not their job to protect me, just like it’s not my job to protect them.
“I mean, I’d be lying if I said it was easy. But if it was easy, everybody would do it. Pec or no pec, everybody at this point of the season is beat up and hurt and playing through something. So just being able to fight back and come back in 2 1/2 months and be a part of this special run has been well worth any of the pain or hard choices I had to make.”
“To be honest, I know I said ‘no setbacks,’ but more times than not, my mindset was, ‘If it tears, it tears — I don’t care,’” Allen admitted. “You can’t be halfway in and halfway out. So, everything I did, I was gonna go full throttle. I mean, in football, it’s either full speed or it’s not. So if I tear it, I tear it. We’ll deal with the repercussions later.”
Extending and restructuring the deal might benefit both him and the team, which is Allen’s preference.
“What my agent and I have always said is, when you have two parties who have mutual interest in accomplishing the same goal, something...
