{"id":18978,"date":"2011-10-29T02:22:23","date_gmt":"2011-10-29T07:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=18978"},"modified":"2011-10-29T02:22:23","modified_gmt":"2011-10-29T07:22:23","slug":"week-8-nfl-picks-winless-colts-try-to-beat-titans-for-sixth-straight-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/week-8-nfl-picks-winless-colts-try-to-beat-titans-for-sixth-straight-time-18978\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 8 NFL Picks: Winless Colts try to beat Titans for sixth straight time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indianapolis Colts at Tennessee Titans
\nSunday, 10\/30\/11, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Tennessee -10.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Tennessee -8.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 42
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 43.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Titans
Will this be the week Tennessee RB Chris Johnson finally breaks loose?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The winless Indianapolis Colts will try to earn their first victory of the season against a team they have beaten five straight times when they visit the Tennessee Titans on Sunday.\u00a0 Both the Colts (0-7) and Titans (3-3) have struggled offensively for different reasons and will look to turn things around in this AFC South battle.<\/p>\n

The Colts remain in the running for Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck, who is the consensus top pick in next year\u2019s NFL draft.\u00a0 They have yet to see All-Pro QB Peyton Manning take the field this season following neck surgery and also put veteran Kerry Collins on injured reserve due to a concussion, leaving them with Curtis Painter and Dan Orlovsky as the only signal callers on the roster.<\/p>\n

Painter never really got going in a 62-7 loss at New Orleans last Sunday night, as he completed just 9 of 17 passes for 67 yards with one interception and no touchdowns.\u00a0 Indianapolis trailed the Saints 31-0 with 4:20 left in the first half and failed to cover the spread for the third straight game.\u00a0 The OVER has also cashed in the team\u2019s last six games since the season opener.<\/p>\n

The Titans (-8.5, O\/U 43.5) have not been missing their top offensive player on the field, but running back Chris Johnson has underperformed big-time this year following a contract holdout in the preseason.\u00a0 The fourth-year player out of East Carolina rushed for over 2,000 yards just two years ago but has yet to prove his worth this year after signing a new four-year extension worth $53 million.<\/p>\n

Johnson has rushed for more than 100 yards in one game this season, which resulted in a 31-13 win at Cleveland in Week 4.\u00a0 Since then, he has totaled 69 rushing yards on 24 carries in losses to Houston and Pittsburgh by a combined score of 79-24.<\/p>\n

Tennessee QB Matt Hasselbeck also not been the same player since losing top wide receiver Kenny Britt for the season with a knee injury in Week 3.\u00a0 Hasselbeck averaged nearly 311 passing yards per game in the first three games Britt started, and he has averaged 195 in the three games without him.<\/p>\n

The Titans are 1-3 against the spread in their last four games with the total going OVER in the past three.\u00a0 However, they are 7-3 ATS in the last 10 meetings with Indy with the total going UNDER in four of the past five along with eight of 10.<\/p>\n

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

Indianapolis Colts at Tennessee Titans Sunday, 10\/30\/11, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Tennessee -10.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Tennessee -8.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 42 Current Total:\u00a0 43.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker The winless Indianapolis Colts will try to earn their first victory of the season against a team they have beaten five straight times […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":4873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[126,1772,1930,1922,2757,301,3410],"class_list":["post-18978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-indianapolis-colts","tag-nfl-betting","tag-nfl-odds","tag-nfl-picks","tag-pro-football","tag-tennessee-titans","tag-week-8"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18978","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\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18979,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18978\/revisions\/18979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}