{"id":17842,"date":"2011-09-18T09:30:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T14:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=17842"},"modified":"2011-09-18T09:30:04","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T14:30:04","slug":"nfl-picks-week-2-jacksonville-jaguars-at-new-york-jets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-picks-week-2-jacksonville-jaguars-at-new-york-jets-17842\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Picks Week 2: Jacksonville Jaguars at New York Jets"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jacksonville Jaguars at New York Jets
\nSunday, 9\/18\/11, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 NY Jets -10
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 NY Jets -9
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 37.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 38.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Jaguars<\/a>
The Jacksonville Jaguars have covered the last six meetings against the New York Jets<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jacksonville walked away with a 16-14 home win last week as one-point favorites and now will try to move to 2-0 for the first time since 2006, while also winning its first road opener since 2007.\u00a0 The Jaguars have a good opportunity of accomplishing both tasks, leading the all-time series, 6-2, including wins in the last three meetings.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve bog a tough task, but why sign up if everything was easy, right?,\u201d commented star running back Maurice Jones-Drew.\u00a0 The former UCLA star hasn\u2019t scored a rushing touchdown on the road since the Jaguars beat the Jets in 2009.\u00a0 Jacksonville is 7-3 ATS in its last 10 games.<\/p>\n

The Jaguars won the last meeting behind 123 yards and a touchdown from Jones-Drew and the veteran looks like he\u2019s recovered from a knee injury that kept him out of the final two games a year ago.\u00a0 Both coaches are familiar with each other, as Jaguars\u2019 Jack Del Rio and the Jets\u2019 Rex Ryan were defensive coaches on the 2000 Baltimore Ravens Super Bowl team.\u00a0 It\u2019s still important to note that the squad is 9-12 in itsl ast 21 games, with only one of those victories coming against a winning team.<\/p>\n

New York erased a 14-point fourth-quarter deficit to defeat the Dallas Cowboys, 27-24, on Sunday Night Football last week.\u00a0 The Jets failed to deliver as 6.5-point home favorites, while the game went over the posted total of 40 1\/2.\u00a0 It was an interesting game plan for the team, as quarterback Mark Sanchez was asked to throw the ball against a depleted Cowboys\u2019 secondary.\u00a0 He ended the night 26 for 44 with two touchdowns and an interception.\u00a0 New York is 22-17 ATS over the last two-plus campaigns.<\/p>\n

The Jets know that they must get their infamous \u201cground and pound\u201d going, but they are also aware that the Jaguars allowed just 24 yards on nine carries to Tennessee Titans star running back Chris Johnson last week.\u00a0 New York will still game plan a more balanced approach offensively in this contest, as 44 passes versus 16 runs will not work over the course of the season.\u00a0 \u201cWe need to do a better job of protecting him and we need to be able to run the ball better,\u201d stated Ryan after last week\u2019s win.\u00a0 Slow starts have also plagued this team, failing to score an offensive touchdown in the first 15 minutes in 16 straight games.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Jaguars due to their 6-0 ATS mark in the last six meetings, while the Jets are 2-5 ATS as a favorite of 3.5 to 10 points.<\/p>\n

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Jacksonville Jaguars at New York Jets Sunday, 9\/18\/11, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 NY Jets -10 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 NY Jets -9 Opening Total:\u00a0 37.5 Current Total:\u00a0 38.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Jacksonville walked away with a 16-14 home win last week as one-point favorites and now will try to move to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[1062,297,486,1064,356,631],"class_list":["post-17842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-jack-del-rio","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-mark-sanchez","tag-maurice-jones-drew","tag-new-york-jets","tag-rex-ryan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17843,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17842\/revisions\/17843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}