{"id":3151,"date":"2008-12-28T10:34:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T15:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/browns-steelers-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-28T10:34:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T15:34:00","slug":"browns-steelers-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/browns-steelers-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns-Steelers Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Cleveland Browns and the Pittsburgh Steelers will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Heinz Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Steelers listed as 11\u00bd-point favorites versus the Browns, while the game’s total is sitting at 34. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Browns lost to Cincinnati<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 14-0 as a 2-point favorite last week. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (31.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ken Dorsey passed for 68 yards with three interceptions for Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> and Jamal Lewis had 76 rushing yards on 16 carries. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Steelers lost to Tennessee<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> 31-14 as a 3-point favorite last week. The combined score went OVER the posted over\/under total (34). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ben Roethlisberger threw for 331 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions for Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> and Hines Ward caught seven passes for 109 yards and a touchdown in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 5 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 4-11 SU, 7-8 ATS
Pittsburgh: 11-4 SU, 8-7 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> most recently:
When playing in December are 3-7
When playing on grass are 2-8
After being outgained are 3-7
When playing within the division are 4-6<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> most recently:
When playing in December are 5-5
When playing on grass are 6-4
After outgaining opponent are 6-4
When playing within the division are 9-1<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Cleveland’s last 6 games when playing on the road against Pittsburgh
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Cleveland’s last 7 games when playing Pittsburgh
Cleveland is 4-2 ATS in its last 6 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 14 of Cleveland’s last 21 games
Pittsburgh is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Cleveland
Pittsburgh is 8-1 SU in its last 9 games when playing at home against Cleveland
Pittsburgh is 5-1 SU in its last 6 games
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Pittsburgh’s last 6 games when playing at home against Cleveland<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Cleveland Browns and the Pittsburgh Steelers will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Heinz Field. Oddsmakers currently have the Steelers listed as 11\u00bd-point favorites versus the Browns, while the game’s total is sitting at 34. The Browns lost to Cincinnati 14-0 as a 2-point favorite last week. The … Continue reading Browns-Steelers Preview<\/span> →<\/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-3151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151","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=3151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}