{"id":17901,"date":"2011-09-22T13:46:46","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T18:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=17901"},"modified":"2011-09-22T13:46:46","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T18:46:46","slug":"pro-football-picks-jacksonville-jaguars-at-carolina-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/pro-football-picks-jacksonville-jaguars-at-carolina-panthers-17901\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Football Picks: Jacksonville Jaguars at Carolina Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jacksonville Jaguars at Carolina Panthers
\nSunday, 9\/25\/11, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Carolina -3.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Carolina -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 40
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 42.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Carolina Panthers QB Cam Newton is second in the league in passing yards heading into Week 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jacksonville is coming off a humiliating 32-3 loss to the New York Jets as nine-point road underdogs last week, as the team will be traveling on the road for a second consecutive week.\u00a0 The Jaguars were out-gained by 80 yards a week after coming away with a 16-14 win over the Tennessee Titans as one-point home favorites.\u00a0 The franchise has seen enough of veteran quarterback Luke McCown under center, as he completed just 6-of-19 passes for 59 yards and four interceptions a week ago.\u00a0 Jacksonville is 15-19 ATS over the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Jaguars officially start the Blaine Gabbert era, as he completed 5-of-6 attempts for 52 yards last week.\u00a0 Many around the franchise saw it as inevitable due to drafting him in the first round this year.\u00a0 \u201cYou wouldn\u2019t know he was a rookie,\u201d commented Jaguars offensive linemen Uche Nwaneri.\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s one thing I love about him.\u201d\u00a0 Jacksonville has won three of four all-time meetings in this series and still has running back Maurice Jones-Drew to hand the ball off to.\u00a0 Creating play-action opportunities in the passing game is going to be Gabbert\u2019s best scenario to be successful on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Carolina is 0-2 despite leading the NFC and ranking second in the NFL with 476 yards per game.\u00a0 The Panthers are one of just two teams in the top 10 in yardage that isn\u2019t in the top 11 in scoring.\u00a0 There\u2019s the task at hand in practice this week.\u00a0 \u201cThe big thing is that when we get down in the red zone, we\u2019ve got to put it in the end zone,\u201d stated first-year Panthers head coach Ron Rivera.\u00a0 It\u2019s still a nice uptick from a unit that ranked last in the NFL in scoring and total offense a year ago.\u00a0 Carolina is 14-21 ATS over the last two-plus campaigns.<\/p>\n

The Panthers have been one of the biggest story lines league-wide due to the success of rookie quarterback Cam Newton.\u00a0 He just set a single-game franchise record with 432 passing yards in a 30-23 loss to the Green Bay Packers as 10.5-point home underdogs.\u00a0 Passing the ball 83 times and rushing it just 48 is not a recipe for success for this franchise, especially with a talented backfield of Jonathan Stewart and DeAngelo Williams.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t think anybody in this organization wants us to rush for under 100 and throw for over 400 every week,\u201d stated Carolina offensive linemen Jordan Gross.\u00a0 The team has suffered some major injuries early on in the season, moving forward without the services of linebackers Jon Beason and Thomas Davis.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Jaguars due to their 5-2 ATS mark in Week 3, while the Panthers are 1-7 ATS in September.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning season and let the NFL handicappers at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jacksonville Jaguars at Carolina Panthers Sunday, 9\/25\/11, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Carolina -3.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Carolina -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 40 Current Total:\u00a0 42.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Jacksonville is coming off a humiliating 32-3 loss to the New York Jets as nine-point road underdogs last week, as the team will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":17237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[5194,3365,279,297],"class_list":["post-17901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-blaine-gabbert","tag-cam-newton","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-jacksonville-jaguars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17901","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=17901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17902,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17901\/revisions\/17902"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}