{"id":5972,"date":"2009-10-11T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/titans-colts-official-betting-preview-spread-picks-info\/"},"modified":"2009-10-11T11:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-11T16:03:00","slug":"titans-colts-official-betting-preview-spread-picks-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/titans-colts-official-betting-preview-spread-picks-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Titans-Colts Official Betting Preview: Spread Picks Info"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>While <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scoresoddspicks.com\/\">baseball bettors<\/a> are checking the <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Denver<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> weather for the <st1:place>Rockies<\/st1:place> hosting the Phillies, it&#8217;s time for the official betting preview of the Colts and Titans. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The NBC Sunday night football game sees <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Indianapolis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> -4.5 at <span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.bodog.com\/welcome\/1861245\/\">Bodog<\/a><\/span> yet 3.5 at <a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.commissionaccount.com\/processing\/clickthrgh.asp?btag=a_1206b_609\"><span class=SpellE>SportsBook<\/span><\/a> so there are serious line movement and middling opportunities for line shoppers. <span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>It&#8217;s a battle of an undefeated straight up team at a winless one. The Colts are 4-0 straight up and 3-1 against the spread. <\/span><\/font><st1:State><st1:place>Tennessee<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> is 0-4 straight up, 1-3 against the spread going over 3-of-4. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Colts are averaging a stunning 9.6 yards per pass attempt to teams that normally allow just 7.5. Even without Bob Sanders, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?Page=Articles&amp;ArticleID=6927\">may play tonight<\/a>, the Colts are allowing 4.0 yards per rush to teams normally getting 4.4 and 5.0 yards per pass to 6.0. Overall they are holding opponents to .7 yards per play below their normal average. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Titans are greatly outplaying their record. They average 5.5 yards per rush to teams normally getting 4.4 and 5.7 yards per play to 5.4. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>On defense they allow a miniscule 2.8 yards per rush to teams normally getting 4.0 and hold foes to .2 yards per play below their normal average. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Titans are expected to use the wildcat formation with Vince Young. While elite handicappers warn that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?Page=Articles&amp;ArticleID=1398\">rankings<\/a> are not as important as ratings, note that the Titans are ranked dead last in the NFL in pass defense and they face the offense ranked first. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>This production is despite losing No. 2 receiver Anthony Gonzalez in the opening week. Revenge could be on the mind of the Colts as they&#8217;ve won 13 straight games in the regular season. Their last loss was at <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>Nashville<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><st1:State><st1:place><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span   style='font-size:12.0pt'>Tennessee<\/span><\/font><\/st1:place><\/st1:State> has won 3-of-5 straight up in the series and the Colts last win was in last season&#8217;s finale, a game that meant as much as <span class=GramE>a preseason contest<\/span> to each team. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Against the spread records: The Colts are 5-12 to the AFC South and 1-6 off an straight up win of 14 or more and 1-6 after allowing 90 yards rushing last game. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Titans are 8-0 as an underdog of 3.5-10, but 2-10 when getting more than 250 yards passing last game. The Titans are 5-1 in the series. <\/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>: It&#8217;s like clockwork for the top handicapper ever. GodsTips is 23-9 over the last seven days including four MLB underdogs. Yesterday it was 8-4 in collegiate football. The top football handicapper of all-time went 9-2 last week. Sunday get nine NFL winners including two Wise Guys winners. Also get some moneyline winners as well. Also get two MLB burials. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?Page=Packages\">Click now to purchase<\/a> as GodsTips had a very special surprise on tonight&#8217;s contest. You will see exactly what it is. <\/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>While baseball bettors are checking the Denver weather for the Rockies hosting the Phillies, it&#8217;s time for the official betting preview of the Colts and Titans. The NBC Sunday night football game sees Indianapolis -4.5 at Bodog yet 3.5 at SportsBook so there are serious line movement and middling opportunities for line shoppers. \u00a0 It&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/10\/titans-colts-official-betting-preview-spread-picks-info\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Titans-Colts Official Betting Preview: Spread Picks Info<\/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-5972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972","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=5972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}