{"id":7910,"date":"2010-09-18T14:31:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-18T19:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=7910"},"modified":"2010-09-18T14:31:03","modified_gmt":"2010-09-18T19:31:03","slug":"nfl-predictions-patriots-vs-jets-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-predictions-patriots-vs-jets-betting-preview-7910\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Predictions: Patriots Vs Jets Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Patriots visit the Jets and are 2.5\/3 point road favorites and maddux sports has NFL predictions on this game<\/figcaption><\/figure>The hype surrounding the New York Jets (0-1) heading into the season apparently should have been reserved for the New England Patriots (1-0), although both teams will simply be looking for a victory when they meet on Sunday.\u00a0 The two AFC East foes continue their rivalry with the Patriots visiting new Meadowlands Stadium as small road favorites on the current NFL line over the Jets at -3.<\/p>\n

New England could not have performed much better in a 38-24 season-opening win over Cincinnati, another team like New York that saw the hype machine swirl in its favor during the offseason due to the acquisition of wide receiver Terrell Owens.\u00a0 But the Patriots let their play do the talking and limited Owens to seven catches for 53 yards even though he was targeted 13 times by Bengals quarterback Carson Palmer.<\/p>\n

Cincy\u2019s final offensive numbers looked good on paper led by Palmer, who finished with 345 passing yards, most of which came in garbage time after the Bengals trailed 31-3 early in the third quarter.\u00a0 New England\u2019s young defensive backs did a great job on Owens and Chad Ochocinco early on though and will not face a comparable test against the Jets.<\/p>\n

To say that New York\u2019s offense was anemic in a 10-9 home loss to Baltimore on Monday night might be an understatement.\u00a0 Jets second-year quarterback Mark Sanchez has taken most of the criticism for not taking enough chances downfield, but his receiving options are limited right now without wide receiver Santonio Holmes in the mix.\u00a0 Holmes will be sitting out the second game of a four-game suspension since coming over in a trade from Pittsburgh, and Sanchez struggled to stretch the field in going 10 of 21 for 74 passing yards with no touchdowns and no interceptions.<\/p>\n

The top rushing offense from a year ago failed to make a big impact against the Ravens as well, totaling 116 yards on 21 carries.\u00a0 LaDainian Tomlinson and Brad Smith combined for 43 yards on two of those runs, making the other 19 attempts worth an average only 3.8 yards.\u00a0 Second-year running back Shonn Greene was expected to explode on the scene as the new starter for the departed Thomas Jones, but he managed to carry the ball just five times for 18 yards.<\/p>\n

The Jets played well on defense vs. Baltimore but will be facing a totally different animal here in New England.\u00a0 The Patriots looked great on offense behind quarterback Tom Brady, who completed 25 of 35 passes for 258 yards and three touchdowns.\u00a0 Two of those scoring passes went to wide receiver Wes Welker in his first regular-season game back following knee surgery.<\/p>\n

The road team is a remarkable 19-7-1 ATS in the last 27 meetings between these teams, although the home team not only won but also covered in both games last season.\u00a0 The UNDER is also 3-1-1 in the last five meetings, including a 16-9 home win for New York in the first game against New England last year.\u00a0 Maddux Sports has spotted some value on this game, consider our our NFL predictions for Sunday to help you turn a profit against the bookmaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The hype surrounding the New York Jets (0-1) heading into the season apparently should have been reserved for the New England Patriots (1-0), although both teams will simply be looking for a victory when they meet on Sunday.\u00a0 The two AFC East foes continue their rivalry with the Patriots visiting new Meadowlands Stadium as small […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":4178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[2539,2508,3085,125,356,1930,1922,2480,2991],"class_list":["post-7910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-football-betting","tag-free-nfl-pick","tag-jets-patriots-preview","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-new-york-jets","tag-nfl-odds","tag-nfl-picks","tag-nfl-predictions","tag-winning-nfl-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910","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=7910"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7920,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7910\/revisions\/7920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}