{"id":5390,"date":"2009-08-26T07:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T12:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/dolphins-vs-buccaneers-football-handicapping\/"},"modified":"2009-08-26T07:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T12:38:00","slug":"dolphins-vs-buccaneers-football-handicapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/dolphins-vs-buccaneers-football-handicapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins vs Buccaneers Football Handicapping"},"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 Miami Dolphins and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at <?xml:namespace prefix = st2 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st2:PersonName><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas:contacts\" \/><st1:GivenName>Raymond<\/st1:GivenName> <st1:middlename>James<\/st1:middlename> <st1:Sn>Stadium<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName>. <?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 Buccaneers listed as 2\u00bd-point favorites versus the Dolphins, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Dolphins improved to 2-0 in the preseason with a 27-17 win over the Panthers last time out. The Dolphins covered the 2.5-point spread, and the 44 points made it OVER the posted total of 33.5. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st2:PersonName><st1:GivenName>Luke<\/st1:GivenName> <st1:Sn>McCown<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> threw two touchdown passes to help the Buccaneers get past the Jaguars 24-23 in Week 2 of the preseason, as 3-point underdogs. That game&#8217;s 47 points sailed OVER the posted total of 34. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st2:City><st2:place>Miami<\/st2:place><\/st2:City>: 11-5 SU, 8-8 <\/font><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st2:place><st2:PlaceName>ATS<\/st2:PlaceName> <br \/><st2:PlaceName>Tampa<\/st2:PlaceName> <st2:PlaceType>Bay<\/st2:PlaceType><\/st2:place>: 9-7 SU, 8-8 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st2:City><st2:place>Miami<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> at <st2:City><st2:place>New Orleans<\/st2:place><\/st2:City>, Thursday, September 3<br \/><st2:City><st2:place>Tampa<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> Bay home to <st1:Sn><st2:City><st2:place>Houston<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, Friday, September 4<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 Miami Dolphins and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Raymond James Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Buccaneers listed as 2\u00bd-point favorites versus the Dolphins, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. The Dolphins improved to 2-0 in the preseason &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/dolphins-vs-buccaneers-football-handicapping\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dolphins vs Buccaneers Football Handicapping<\/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-5390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5390","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=5390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}