{"id":18456,"date":"2011-10-08T17:37:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T22:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=18456"},"modified":"2011-10-08T17:37:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-08T22:37:45","slug":"cincinnati-bengals-at-jacksonville-jaguars-sunday-pro-football-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/cincinnati-bengals-at-jacksonville-jaguars-sunday-pro-football-betting-preview-18456\/","title":{"rendered":"Cincinnati Bengals at Jacksonville Jaguars: Sunday Pro Football Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cincinnati Bengals at Jacksonville Jaguars
\nSunday, 10\/9\/11, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Jacksonville -2.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Cincinnati -1
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 35.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 37
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Cincinnati Bengals have moved to slight road favorites Sunday in Jacksonville<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cincinnati stormed back to pick up a 23-20 win over the Buffalo Bills last week as three-point home underdogs and now travel to a historically tough place to play in Jacksonville.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re on the road, against another AFC team, and we have to show the same resolve we did against Buffalo,\u201d commented Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve got to have the same kind of eye we had on the target with the Bills.\u201d\u00a0 The Bengals will come in with the NFL\u2019s top-ranked defense, allowing just 275.5 yards per game.\u00a0 On the other side of the ball, Cincinnati gained 458 yards last week, with 293 of those coming in the second half.\u00a0 Cincinnati is 17-20 ATS over the last two-plus seasons and the \u2018over\u2019 is 19-18 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Bengals have scored on all 12 possessions in the red zone this year, but has come away with seven field goals versus five touchdowns.\u00a0 Rookie Andy Dalton has fallen off a bit after starting the year with two 100-plus quarterback rating games, but did complete 11 of 16 passes for 182 yards in leading last week\u2019s comeback.\u00a0 He currently has a 76.9 passer rating, which is good for 27th in the league.<\/p>\n

Jacksonville has the league\u2019s worst offense and rookie Blaine Gabbert is 0-2 as a starter in the NFL.\u00a0 The rookie out of Missouri completed 16 of 42 passes for 196 yards while throwing a touchdown and interception in last week\u2019s 23-10 loss to the New Orleans Saints as nine-point home underdogs.\u00a0 The Jaguars have failed to cover their last three games, while also getting out-gained in each of those contests.\u00a0 Bouncing back is a definite possibility due to the team not losing consecutive home games since 2009.\u00a0 Jacksonville is 3-6 ATS as a favorite the last two-plus seasons, while the \u2018over\u2019 is 5-4 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Jaguars still rely heavily on running back Maurice Jones-Drew to get things going offensively, as he\u2019s looking for his second 100-yard rushing game this season.\u00a0 He is averaging 97.7 rushing yards through the first four games.\u00a0 Jacksonville does lead this series, 11-6, including wins in four of the last five meetings.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is averaging just 264.3 yards per game, which includes a dismal 137.5 passing yards.\u00a0 Luckily, the defense ranks 12th in the league and has picked off five passes.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Bengals due to their 6-0 ATS mark versus the AFC, while the Jaguars are 1-6 in their last seven games.<\/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":"

Cincinnati Bengals at Jacksonville Jaguars Sunday, 10\/9\/11, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Jacksonville -2.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Cincinnati -1 Opening Total:\u00a0 35.5 Current Total:\u00a0 37 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Cincinnati stormed back to pick up a 23-20 win over the Buffalo Bills last week as three-point home underdogs and now travel to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":17254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[414,3386,302,297,1064],"class_list":["post-18456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-afc","tag-andy-dalton","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-maurice-jones-drew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18456","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=18456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18457,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18456\/revisions\/18457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}