{"id":2658,"date":"2008-11-13T15:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T20:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/official-gambling-preview-of-ny-jets-new-england-patriots\/"},"modified":"2008-11-13T15:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T20:29:00","slug":"official-gambling-preview-of-ny-jets-new-england-patriots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/official-gambling-preview-of-ny-jets-new-england-patriots\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Gambling Preview of NY Jets-New England Patriots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It has yet again been a banner season in football betting and <a   href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?Page=Articles&amp;ArticleID=3720\"><font   color=#0000ff>Thursday night looks like one of the best in years<\/font><\/a> for   pointspread players. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Here is the official betting preview of the New England   Patriots and New York Jets. The <a   href=\"http:\/\/www.linetrackers.com\/\">sportsbooks<\/a> have the Patriots posted as   a 3.5 point favorite with a total of 41. Football bettors also can get   <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = ST1 \/><st1:PLACE>New England<\/st1:PLACE> at -3 -120.   <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Since last year, the Patriots are 15-1 their last 16   outright at home. This includes three straight wins by an average of 28-11. The   Jets lead the NFL in average starting position. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>The Jets are 6-3 straight up and 5-4 to the Vegas odds.   They have won five of their last six game straight up. <st1:PLACE>New   England<\/st1:PLACE> has identical straight up and pointspread marks. Despite   getting just 5.6 yards per play against teams normally allowing 5.7, the Jets   average 28.3 points per game against teams normally allowing 23.9. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Defensively, they have been tough against the run allowing   3.2 yards per carry to teams normally getting 3.9. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>However those numbers are better than New England which   gets .6 yards per rush less than their opponents normally allow, while giving up   .2 yards per play more. The Pats are particularly vulnerable to the pass   allowing 7.3 yards per play to teams normally getting 6.8. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>Some spread numbers from Brian Gould of <span   style=\"COLOR: black\"><a href=\"http:\/\/scoresoddspicks.com\/\"><font   color=#0000ff>ScoresOddsPicks.com<\/font><\/a> <\/span>say that <st1:PLACE>New   England<\/st1:PLACE> is 49-28 to opponents getting a completion percentage of 61   % or better. They are also 11-3 off consecutive spread wins. On the other hand,   the Pats are 1-8 after a game in which they gave up 15 or fewer points. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><st1:PLACE>New England<\/st1:PLACE> has gone over 7-0 to   teams that get 4.5 or more yards per carry. The Jets have done over 9-1 off a   spread win. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>The Jets are 21-8 after allowing less than 150 yards   passing last game, but 1-7 if they scored 30 or more in their previous contest.   <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText>For all the <span class=SpellE>pregame<\/span> picks against   the spread, check out the home page of <b   style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal\"><span style=\"COLOR: blue\"><a   href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><font   color=#0000ff>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has yet again been a banner season in football betting and Thursday night looks like one of the best in years for pointspread players. &nbsp; Here is the official betting preview of the New England Patriots and New York Jets. The sportsbooks have the Patriots posted as a 3.5 point favorite with a total &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/official-gambling-preview-of-ny-jets-new-england-patriots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Official Gambling Preview of NY Jets-New England Patriots<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}