{"id":18810,"date":"2011-10-21T20:01:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T01:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=18810"},"modified":"2011-10-21T20:01:38","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T01:01:38","slug":"pro-football-betting-preview-pittsburgh-steelers-vs-arizona-cardinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/pro-football-betting-preview-pittsburgh-steelers-vs-arizona-cardinals-18810\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Football Betting Preview: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Arizona Cardinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pittsburgh Steelers at Arizona Cardinals
\nSunday, 10\/23\/11, 4:05 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Pittsburgh -4
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Pittsburgh -4
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 41.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 43.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Arizona Cardinals are coming off a bye week and looking to snap a four-game losing streak<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pittsburgh has won two consecutive games and is coming off a 17-13 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars as 12.5-point home favorites.\u00a0 The Steelers gained 315 yards offensively in the first half, while being limited to just 70 in the second half.\u00a0 On the other side of the ball, the defense continues to be one of the best in the league, allowing just 270.5 yards per game.\u00a0 Pittsburgh is 7-5 ATS as a favorite of 3.5 to 9.5 points and the \u2018under\u2019 is 7-5 in those contests.<\/p>\n

The Steelers are led offensively by quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who comes into this contest with nine touchdown passes and six interceptions, but five of those scoring throws came in one game.\u00a0 Pittsburgh hopes that running back Rashard Mendenhall can continue pounding the rock on the ground, finishing with 146 yards and a touchdown on 23 attempts last week, which definitely showed that he\u2019s over the affects of a hamstring injury he was suffering from.\u00a0 The former Illinois runner has 2,758 career rushing yards, placing him 13th in the franchise in that particular category.<\/p>\n

Arizona comes in off the bye week and will be looking to snap a four-game losing streak, including an embarrassing 34-10 loss to the Minnesota Vikings as 3.5-point road underdogs.\u00a0 The Cardinals dropped the first there games of their current losing streak by a combined eight points.\u00a0 \u201cWhen you take a week off and another team is rolling and you\u2019ve got to play them and they have momentum, that can hurt you,\u201d stated Cardinals defensive tackle Darrell Dockett.\u00a0 Arizona is 11-11 ATS as an underdog and the \u2018over\u2019 is 12-11 in that span.<\/p>\n

The Cardinals are hoping that offseason acquisition Kevin Kolb turns things around after the week off, as he has a 77.2 passer rating this season, but it\u2019s actually 60.8 over the last three games.\u00a0 Arizona has managed to average just 17.0 points and 222.8 yards per game over the losing streak, but head coach Ken Whisenhunt has faith in his signal-caller turning things around.\u00a0 \u201cKevin has always been a good leader,\u201d stated Whisenhunt.\u00a0 On the defensive end, Arizona will look to get after Roethlisberger, who has been sacked 18 times already this season.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Cardinals due to their 16-5-1 ATS mark as a home underdog of 3.5 to 10 points, while the Steelers are 0-4 ATS on the road.<\/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":"

Pittsburgh Steelers at Arizona Cardinals Sunday, 10\/23\/11, 4:05 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Pittsburgh -4 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Pittsburgh -4 Opening Total:\u00a0 41.5 Current Total:\u00a0 43.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Pittsburgh has won two consecutive games and is coming off a 17-13 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars as 12.5-point home favorites.\u00a0 The Steelers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":17231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[646,349,3005,346,62],"class_list":["post-18810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-ben-roethlisberger","tag-kevin-kolb","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-rashard-mendenhall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18810","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=18810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18811,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18810\/revisions\/18811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}