{"id":30185,"date":"2013-09-19T14:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T19:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=30185"},"modified":"2013-09-19T13:12:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T18:12:30","slug":"nfl-week-3-predictions-green-bay-packers-vs-cincinnati-bengals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-week-3-predictions-green-bay-packers-vs-cincinnati-bengals-30185\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 3 Predictions: Green Bay Packers vs. Cincinnati Bengals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Green Bay Packers vs. Cincinnati Bengals
\nSunday, 9\/22\/13, 1:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Cincinnati -1
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Green Bay -2.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 45.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 48.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Green Bay Packers possess one of the more explosive offenses in the NFL<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Green Bay is set to make its first regular-season visit to Cincinnati since 2005, as it comes off a 38-20 victory over the Washington Redskins as nine-point home favorites in Week 2, while going OVER the betting total for a second consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Packers will be facing a 2012 NFL playoff team for a third straight game, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the pro football odds page.\u00a0 Including the playoffs, the team has won 14 of its last 21 games away from Lambeau Field.\u00a0 Green Bay is 6-3 SU and 4-5 ATS in September the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Packers have posted a 5-2 record in the game before enjoying a bye week under head coach Mike McCarthy, including wins in the last three opportunities\u2014averaging 36.3 points and giving up 17.0 points in that situation.\u00a0 In his last five regular-season games, Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers has completed 133 of 193 passes for 1,811 yards and 17 touchdowns with just a single interception.\u00a0 The team is averaging a league-best 482.5 yards per game thus far in 2013.<\/p>\n

Cincinnati also evened its record after two games, as it picked up a 20-10 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers as seven-point home favorites Monday, while going UNDER the betting total of 40.\u00a0 \u201cThey\u2019re just like us,\u201d commented Bengals head coach Marvin Lewis.\u00a0 \u00a0 The Bengals have won six of their 11 all-time meetings against the Packers, but they haven\u2019t faced off since 2009.\u00a0 During the Lewis era since 2003, the franchise is tied for fifth in the league in turnover differential.\u00a0 Cincinnati is 4-4 SU and 4-2-2 ATS in September over the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Bengals rank third in the NFL in allowing just 62.5 yards per game on the ground, but they\u2019ll have to defense the pass in this affair, as the Packers have little to no run game to speak of.\u00a0 Cincinnati\u2019s defensive line led all teams with 96 sacks over the previous two seasons, which is important to consider when making your NFL predictions, as it\u2019s capable of placing pressure on Rodgers without blitzing.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Bengals due to their 8-2-1 ATS mark in their last 11 games.<\/p>\n

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Green Bay Packers vs. Cincinnati Bengals Sunday, 9\/22\/13, 1:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Cincinnati -1 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Green Bay -2.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 45.5 Current Total:\u00a0 48.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Green Bay is set to make its first regular-season visit to Cincinnati since 2005, as it comes off a 38-20 victory over the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29511,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[416,302,1119,319,3609,31],"class_list":["post-30185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-aaron-rodgers","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-marvin-lewis","tag-mike-mccarthy","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30185","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=30185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30187,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30185\/revisions\/30187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}