{"id":2942,"date":"2008-12-07T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T14:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/bengals-colts-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-07T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-07T14:37:00","slug":"bengals-colts-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/bengals-colts-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals-Colts Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Cincinnati Bengals and the Indianapolis Colts will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at Lucas Oil Stadium. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Oddsmakers currently have the Colts listed as 14-point favorites versus the Bengals, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 42. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Bengals lost to <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:City><st1:place>Baltimore<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 34-3 as a 7-point underdog last week. The combined score went OVER the posted over\/under total (36). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Ryan Fitzpatrick threw for 124 yards with no touchdowns for <st1:City><st1:place>St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> and T.J. Houshmandzadeh caught four passes for 64 yards. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Colts defeated <st1:City><st1:place>Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 10-6 as a 4.5-point favorite last week. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (43.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Robert Mathis scored the Colts&#8217; lone touchdown on a fumble return, while Peyton Manning passed for 125 yards with two interceptions in the win. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Cincinnati<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 2 straight games.<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Indianapolis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 5 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Cincinnati<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: <st1:date Month=\"1\" Day=\"10\" Year=\"2001\">1-10-1<\/st1:date> SU, 4-8 ATS <br \/>Indianapolis: 8-4 SU, 4-8 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Cincinnati most recently:<br \/>When playing in December are 4-6<br \/>When playing on turf are 1-8-1<br \/>After being outgained are 1-9<br \/>When playing on outside the division are 3-6-1<\/p>\n<p>Indianapolis most recently:<br \/>When playing in December are 6-4<br \/>When playing on turf are 6-4<br \/>After outgaining opponent are 6-4<br \/>When playing outside the division are 7-3<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 6 of Cincinnati&#8217;s last 8 games when playing Indianapolis<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Cincinnati&#8217;s last 6 games when playing on the road against Indianapolis<br \/>Cincinnati is 2-5 ATS in its last 7 games <br \/>Cincinnati is 4-9-1 ATS in its last 14 games on the road<br \/>Indianapolis is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games <br \/>Indianapolis is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Cincinnati<br \/>Indianapolis is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing Cincinnati<br \/>Indianapolis is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Cincinnati<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Cincinnati<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to <st1:State><st1:place>Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Sunday, December 14<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Indianapolis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to <st1:City><st1:place>Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, December 14<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\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>The Cincinnati Bengals and the Indianapolis Colts will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at Lucas Oil Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Colts listed as 14-point favorites versus the Bengals, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 42. The Bengals lost to Baltimore 34-3 as a 7-point underdog &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/bengals-colts-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bengals-Colts Preview<\/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-2942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942","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=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}