{"id":1542,"date":"2009-01-15T18:03:08","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T23:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/official-betting-vegas-line-preview-of-afc-championship-steelers-ravens\/"},"modified":"2009-01-15T18:03:08","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T23:03:08","slug":"official-betting-vegas-line-preview-of-afc-championship-steelers-ravens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/official-betting-vegas-line-preview-of-afc-championship-steelers-ravens\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Betting Vegas Line Preview of AFC Championship Steelers-Ravens"},"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 Baltimore Ravens travel to the Pittsburgh Steelers in<br \/>\nthe AFC Championships. The latest betting odds have <st1:City><st1:place>Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><br \/>\nas a six-point favorite with a total of 34 at most <a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.linetrackers.com\/\">sportsbooks<\/a>. The money line has <st1:City><st1:place>Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><br \/>\n-250. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><st1:City><st1:place>Baltimore<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is<br \/>\n13-5 straight up and a fantastic 14-4 to the number. This includes 7-3 outright<br \/>\non the road and 8-2 to the Vegas odds. The Ravens have gone over 7-of-10 road<br \/>\ngames. However, they\u2019ve gone under 5-of-6 overall including two straight on the<br \/>\nhighway. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>The Steelers are 13-4 straight up. <st1:City><st1:place>Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><br \/>\nhas covered 6-of-7 including four straight home games. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><st1:City><st1:place>Baltimore<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has<br \/>\naverage numbers on offense but on defense allow 3.6 yards per play to teams<br \/>\nnormally getting 4.1 and 5.5 yards per pass teams normally getting 6.2. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>The Steelers likewise have pretty much average numbers on<br \/>\noffense but on defense they allow 3.2 yards per rush to teams that normally<br \/>\naverage 4.1 and a stunning 4.9 yards per pass to teams that get 6.3. Overall<br \/>\nthey allow 4.2 yards per pass to teams that usually get 5.3. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Saturday night into Sunday morning <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:\nnormal'><span style='color:blue'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">OffshoreInsiders.com<\/a><\/span><\/b><br \/>\nwill have all the spread picks on both the side and total on this game. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Some spread betting numbers show that the Ravens are 3-10<br \/>\nas road underdogs of 3.5-10. <st1:City><st1:place>Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><br \/>\nhas done over 8-1 in home playoff contests. <st1:City><st1:place>Baltimore<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><br \/>\nhas covered 6-of-8 series meetings. <st1:City><st1:place>Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City><br \/>\nhas gone over 13-3 at home to an opponent with a winning road record.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/body><br \/>\n<\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Baltimore Ravens travel to the Pittsburgh Steelers in the AFC Championships. The latest betting odds have Pittsburgh as a six-point favorite with a total of 34 at most sportsbooks. The money line has Pittsburgh -250. Baltimore is 13-5 straight up and a fantastic 14-4 to the number. This includes 7-3 outright on the road &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/official-betting-vegas-line-preview-of-afc-championship-steelers-ravens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Official Betting Vegas Line Preview of AFC Championship Steelers-Ravens<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[247,245,246],"class_list":["post-1542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports_betting_news","tag-afc-championship","tag-ravens","tag-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542","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=1542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}