{"id":30027,"date":"2013-09-07T22:45:11","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T03:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=30027"},"modified":"2013-09-08T07:39:14","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T12:39:14","slug":"tennessee-titans-vs-pittsburgh-steelers-nfl-week-1-betting-odds-and-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/tennessee-titans-vs-pittsburgh-steelers-nfl-week-1-betting-odds-and-predictions-30027\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee Titans vs. Pittsburgh Steelers: NFL Week 1 Betting Odds and Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tennessee Titans vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
\nSunday, 9\/8\/13, 1:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Pittsburgh -6.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Pittsburgh -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 41.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 42
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tennessee and Pittsburgh will be meeting up for the 76th time, with the franchise coming off a 1-3 SUATS preseason, which is important to consider when making your NFL expert picks Sunday afternoon.\u00a0 The Titans earned a surprising 26-23 victory over the Steelers as 5.5-point home underdogs last season\u2014despite getting outgained by 53 yards in the contest.\u00a0 The team is hoping that it can fix its defensive problems from a year ago, as the unit allowed a league-worst 29.4 points per game.\u00a0 Tennessee is 5-6 ATS as underdogs of 3.5 to 9.5 points the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 7-5 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Titans are entrusting their offense with quarterback Jake Locker, who completed 56.4 percent of his passes for 2,176 yards with 10 touchdowns and 11 interceptions in 11 contests last season.\u00a0 The former Washington Huskies star averaged just 147.0 passing yards and compiled a disappointing passer rating of 65.6 over his last three games.\u00a0 Tennessee still possesses one of the more dynamic running backs in Chris Johnson, who ran for 1,243 yards and six scores in 2012.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh went 0-4 SUATS during its 2013 exhibition schedule, with the UNDER cashing in three of those contests.\u00a0 The Steelers definitely want to get off to a strong start, as they\u2019ve dropped their opening game the last two years\u2014but both of those have come away from Heinz Field.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s definitely important to start the season on the right note,\u201d commented Steelers wide receiver Jerricho Cotchery.\u00a0 The franchise has won its last 10 home openers\u2014the longest active streak of its kind in the league.\u00a0 Pittsburgh is 46-23 ATS as home favorites of 3.5 to 7 points since 1992.<\/p>\n

The Steelers led the NFL with 275.8 yards allowed per game last season, but managed to create just 20 turnovers\u2014the fewest in the league.\u00a0 Pittsburgh is hoping that quarterback Ben Roethlisberger can stay healthy, as he suffered a sprained shoulder and rib injury a year ago\u2014with the team being 6-3 at the time of the injury and finishing 8-8 and missing the playoffs.\u00a0 He completed 66.1 percent of his passes for 2,287 yards and 17 touchdowns before going down.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Steelers due to the Titans being 0-3 ATS on the road with a betting total of 38.5 to 42 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/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":"

Tennessee Titans vs. Pittsburgh Steelers Sunday, 9\/8\/13, 1:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Pittsburgh -6.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Pittsburgh -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 41.5 Current Total:\u00a0 42 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Tennessee and Pittsburgh will be meeting up for the 76th time, with the franchise coming off a 1-3 SUATS preseason, which is important to consider […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[349,1065,3977,2041,31,346,301],"class_list":["post-30027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-ben-roethlisberger","tag-chris-johnson","tag-heinz-field","tag-jake-locker","tag-nfl","tag-pittsburgh-steelers","tag-tennessee-titans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30027","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=30027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30032,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30027\/revisions\/30032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}