{"id":35528,"date":"2014-09-26T04:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T09:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35528"},"modified":"2014-09-25T18:55:40","modified_gmt":"2014-09-25T23:55:40","slug":"nfl-week-4-predictions-jacksonville-jaguars-vs-san-diego-chargers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-week-4-predictions-jacksonville-jaguars-vs-san-diego-chargers-35528\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 4 Predictions: Jacksonville Jaguars vs. San Diego Chargers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jacksonville Jaguars vs. San Diego Chargers
\nSunday, 9\/28\/14, 4:05 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 San Diego -13.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 San Diego -13
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 44.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 45
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Chargers<\/a>
San Diego Chargers QB Philip Rivers has put up great numbers against the Jacksonville Jaguars in his career<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jacksonville has dropped its first three games of the season, including a 44-17 defeat to the Indianapolis Colts as six-point home underdogs last week, while going OVER the betting total in each of those affairs.\u00a0 The Jaguars have been outscored by a league-worst 75 points this season, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your Week 4 NFL predictions, especially since they\u2019ve dropped their last three games in this series by an average of 22.3 points.\u00a0 Jacksonville is 2-8 SU and 6-4 ATS as underdogs of 10 or more points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Jaguars are expected to start quarterback Blake Bortles for the first time in this matchup, which is important to consider when looking over the NFL betting lines, as he completed 14 of 24 passes for 223 yards and two touchdowns with two interceptions in his first round of action last week.\u00a0 The former UCF Knights star will need to lead the offense to some points, as the defense ranks last in the league in allowing 466 yards per game.<\/p>\n

San Diego could easily be 3-0 on the season, but it has managed to cover the number in each of its contests, including a 22-10 victory over the Buffalo Bills as 2.5-point road underdogs last week.\u00a0 The Chargers will be led by quarterback Philip Rivers, who has completed 66 of 83 passes for 913 yards and seven touchdowns in his last three games against the Jaguars.\u00a0 He completed 84.6 percent of his attempts in last year\u2019s 24-6 road win in the series.\u00a0 San Diego is 8-5 SU and 6-7 ATS as favorites since 2012.<\/p>\n

The Chargers certainly have some injury concerns, especially at the running back position with Ryan Matthews out for a couple months and Danny Woodhead being lost for the season.\u00a0 San Diego will rely heavily on former Indianapolis Colts running back Donald Brown, who finished with a career-high 31 carries last week.\u00a0 He could be a sneaky play for fantasy football players due to Jacksonville surrendering an NFL-worst 160.0 yards per game on the ground.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Chargers due to the favorite covering the number in the last four meetings in this series.<\/p>\n

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Jacksonville Jaguars vs. San Diego Chargers Sunday, 9\/28\/14, 4:05 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 San Diego -13.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 San Diego -13 Opening Total:\u00a0 44.5 Current Total:\u00a0 45 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Jacksonville has dropped its first three games of the season, including a 44-17 defeat to the Indianapolis Colts as six-point home underdogs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[7745,297,31,1035,298],"class_list":["post-35528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-blake-bortles","tag-jacksonville-jaguars","tag-nfl","tag-philip-rivers","tag-san-diego-chargers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35528","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=35528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35529,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35528\/revisions\/35529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}