{"id":5512,"date":"2009-09-10T08:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T13:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/nfl-handicapping-steelers-vs-titans\/"},"modified":"2009-09-10T08:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T13:56:00","slug":"nfl-handicapping-steelers-vs-titans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/nfl-handicapping-steelers-vs-titans\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Handicapping: Steelers vs. Titans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/examiner\/x-7384-Sports-Betting-Examiner~y2009m9d9-College-football-expert-picks-Georgia-TechClemson-Vegas-spread-picks-preview\">Clemson vs. GA Tech<\/a> opens up the betting weekend, but it&#8217;s also the debut of regular season <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bettorsadvice.com\/\">NFL betting picks<\/a> as the Tennessee Titans take on the Pittsburgh Steelers. <\/span><\/font><span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.bodog.com\/welcome\/1861245\/\">Bodog<\/a><\/span> has the Steelers -6 with a total of 35. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Handicapping notes: There are plenty of sports betting subplots in this contest. Last year, the Titans got off to a 10-0 straight up start before finishing the year 13-3 and losing to <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Baltimore<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> in the first round of the NFL playoffs. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Conversely, <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> got off to a sluggish start, but won nine of their final 10 regular season games and of course every postseason contest. Their only loss in that span was to <st1:State><st1:place>Tennessee<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>. As far as &#8220;bulletin board&#8221; motivation: Titans RB <span class=SpellE>LenDale<\/span> White stomped on a Terrible Towel after the contest. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Each team returns 20 starters, though the Titans had arguably the biggest loss in the NFL as their best defensive favorite Albert <span class=SpellE>Haynesworth<\/span> fled via free agency. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Against the spread records: The Titans are 7-0 as underdogs of 3.5-10 points and 8-0 in the month of September. <\/span><\/font><st1:State><st1:place>Tennessee<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> is 11-4 on grass. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><st1:City><st1:place><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span   style='font-size:12.0pt'>Pittsburgh<\/span><\/font><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is 6-1 their last seven to the AFC and 24-8 as home favorites of 3.5-10 points. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Over\/under angles: The Steelers have gone over seven straight opening weeks. Seven of the last eight meetings at the confluence of the Three Rivers have gone over<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Top expert pick on this game: <\/span><\/font><\/b>For the over\/under <span class=GramE>it&#8217;s<\/span> Mon Valley Sports is the top team specialist in all of sports.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>In 14 previous years, they have hit no worse than 53 percent in sides and totals involving the Steelers.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>Over the last six years, they hit better than 63 percent and are 62.1 percent lifetime sides, totals in pre, regular and postseason. <span class=GramE>Titans\/Steelers over\/under.<\/span><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>For the side, it&#8217;s the best ever: You are right. GodsTips is much better than 32-20 in football and now our best time is here. Remember in week 3 of the preseason, which emulates the regular season, we went 8-2. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Get both the Titans-Steelers and Clemson-GA Tech sides from GodsTips. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?Page=Packages\">Click now to purchase<\/a> <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><span style='font-weight:bold;mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/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>Clemson vs. GA Tech opens up the betting weekend, but it&#8217;s also the debut of regular season NFL betting picks as the Tennessee Titans take on the Pittsburgh Steelers. Bodog has the Steelers -6 with a total of 35. Handicapping notes: There are plenty of sports betting subplots in this contest. Last year, the Titans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/nfl-handicapping-steelers-vs-titans\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NFL Handicapping: Steelers vs. Titans<\/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-5512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512","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=5512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}