{"id":1344,"date":"2007-10-15T11:43:44","date_gmt":"2007-10-15T16:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/mnf-betting-preview\/"},"modified":"2007-10-15T11:43:44","modified_gmt":"2007-10-15T16:43:44","slug":"mnf-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/mnf-betting-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"MNF Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='tab-interval:.5in'><\/p>\n<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>The NY Giants take on the Atlanta Falcons on Monday Night<br \/>\nFootball. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linetrackers.com\/\">Sportsbooks<\/a> have The<br \/>\nGiants a 4.5 point favorite (as much as five at <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.bodoglife.com\/welcome\/1861245\/sportsbook\">NewBodog<\/a>) with a<br \/>\ntotal of 43.5 to 44. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>After <span class=GramE>an<\/span> 0-2 straight up and ATS<br \/>\nstart, the Giants have won and covered three straight with each of the wins by<br \/>\na touchdown or more. Meanwhile, <st1:City><st1:place>Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><br \/>\nis 1-4 SU and all four losses are by six or more. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>The Giants are giving up just 4.1 yards per play during<br \/>\ntheir winning streak. For the year, they allow 5.3 yards per play against teams<br \/>\nnormally allowing 5.6. They have been their best against the run allowing 3.6<br \/>\nyards per rush to teams normally getting 4.1.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Actually, the Giants are getting only 4.9 yards per play<br \/>\nduring their three game winning <span class=GramE>streak<\/span>. This compares<br \/>\nto 5.5 yards per play for the year against teams normally allowing 5.2. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><st1:State><st1:place>New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> offensively<br \/>\naverages a sensational 4.4 yards per rush against teams normally allowing 3.8. <st1:City><st1:place>Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>\u2019s<br \/>\ndefense has been respectable allowing 20 points per game to teams normally<br \/>\ngetting 20.3 and 5.5 yards per play to teams normally getting 5.5. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Amazingly the road team has won 11 straight outright in<br \/>\nthis series, covering the last six. <st1:City><st1:place>Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><br \/>\nis ravaged by injuries on their offensive line minus both tackles Wayne Gandy<br \/>\nand Todd Weiner. Starting in their place is an <span class=SpellE>undrafted<\/span><br \/>\nrookie <span class=SpellE>Renardo<\/span> Foster and an unproven second year<br \/>\nplayer Tyson <span class=SpellE>Clabo<\/span>. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Giants quarterback Eli Manning has won seven straight<br \/>\nOctober games. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Sports betting trends say that <st1:City><st1:place>Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><br \/>\nhas gone over 15-4 since 1992 to teams with a winning percentage in the .500s. <st1:City><st1:place>Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><br \/>\nis 15-35 against the spread since 1992 to teams averaging 24 or more points per<br \/>\ngame. <st1:State><st1:place>New York<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> is 32-8 in the<br \/>\nback pocket after getting more than 150 yards rushing last game. <span\nstyle='mso-spacerun:yes'> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Joey Harrington will start at QB for the Falcons, but he<br \/>\nand is 24-48 career record could be on a short leash as recently signed Byron<br \/>\nLeftwich has had several weeks to learn the offense. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><st1:City><st1:place>Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> can<br \/>\nfind solace in knowing the Giants have struggled against receiving tight ends<br \/>\nand they have one of the best in <span class=SpellE>Alge<\/span> <span\nclass=SpellE>Crumpler<\/span>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/body><br \/>\n<\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Giants take on the Atlanta Falcons on Monday Night Football. Sportsbooks have The Giants a 4.5 point favorite (as much as five at NewBodog) with a total of 43.5 to 44. After an 0-2 straight up and ATS start, the Giants have won and covered three straight with each of the wins by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2007\/10\/mnf-betting-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MNF Betting Preview<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[159,26,158,140],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_betting_news","tag-mnf-betting","tag-nfl-betting","tag-scores-and-odds","tag-who-will-cover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}