{"id":3223,"date":"2009-01-04T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T15:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/dolphins-ravens-betting-preview\/"},"modified":"2009-01-04T10:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T15:26:00","slug":"dolphins-ravens-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/dolphins-ravens-betting-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins-Ravens Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Sunday newspapers are essentially saying the same thing about the Ravens-Dolphins in their previews, but in conjunction with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lines-maker.com\/\">Lines-Maker.com<\/a>, the top sports handicappers at <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font color=blue><span style='color:blue;font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">OffshoreInsiders.com<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/b> give the official betting preview of Baltimore-Miami. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookmaker.com\/?cmpid=5999_828\">Bookmaker<\/a> has the betting odds as <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Baltimore<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> laying 3.5, though at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betus.com\/ats\/10499\/sportsbook\/\">BetUs Sportsbook<\/a> it&#8217;s -3 with -130 <span class=GramE>juice<\/span>. The total varies at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linetrackers.com\/\">sportsbooks<\/a> from 37.5-38. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The weather calls for isolated showers but for the most part it will be partly cloudy with a high near 78. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><st1:City><st1:place><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span   style='font-size:12.0pt'>Baltimore<\/span><\/font><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is 11-5 straight up and a sensational 12-4 against the spread. They are 6-2 on the road going over 7-of-8 on the highway. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><st1:City><st1:place><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span   style='font-size:12.0pt'>Miami<\/span><\/font><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is 11-5 straight up but just 8-8 to the <span class=GramE>number,<\/span> They are 2-6 against the spread at home and have lost four straight home games to the Vegas number. The Fins have gone under eight of their last 10. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>In location comparison (home team&#8217;s home stats, road team&#8217;s road stats), the numbers suggest that home field is not an advantage. <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Baltimore<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> averages 25.6 points per game on the road compared to just 18.6 for <st1:City><st1:place>Miami<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at home, though the more telling numbers tell us the points per game stats are deceptive.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Fins do get 3.9 more yards per game and while they get .1 less yards per rush they do get .7 more yards per pass. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Defensively in location comparison the numbers are incredibly close, though <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Miami<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> allows 16.2 more yards per game. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Overall numbers show <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Baltimore<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> allows just 5.4 yards per pass to teams normally getting 6.2 and 4.7 yards per play to 5.2. However <st1:City><st1:place>Miami<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> gets 7.4 passing yards per attempt against teams normally allowing 6.8. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Some Vegas betting numbers, <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Miami<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has gone over 11-2 after a game with a turnover margin of +2 or better. The Fins are just 3-12 the last two years at home against the spread. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><st1:City><st1:place><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span   style='font-size:12.0pt'>Baltimore<\/span><\/font><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is 1-8 their last nine to the Vegas number as road favorites. <st1:City><st1:place>Miami<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is 11-24 off spread win. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Find out who all the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?Page=Articles&amp;ArticleID=4277\">sharp players are betting<\/a> on in this game and the Eagles hosting the Vikings at <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font color=blue><span style='color:blue; font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\">OffshoreInsiders.com<\/a><\/span><\/font><\/b><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\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>Sunday newspapers are essentially saying the same thing about the Ravens-Dolphins in their previews, but in conjunction with Lines-Maker.com, the top sports handicappers at OffshoreInsiders.com give the official betting preview of Baltimore-Miami. Bookmaker has the betting odds as Baltimore laying 3.5, though at BetUs Sportsbook it&#8217;s -3 with -130 juice. The total varies at sportsbooks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/dolphins-ravens-betting-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dolphins-Ravens Betting 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-3223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223","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=3223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}