Posted
on 01/11/2008 12:20 PM
By: CappersPicks.com NFL Football Handicapping
Staff
NFL Football Playoff Betting - Jaguars vs. Patriots
Preview -
The hard-hitting, smash-mouth Jacksonville
Jaguars have been running the ball as well
as any team in the playoffs and showed
they belong by beating the Pittsburgh Steelers
at Heinz Field for the second time this
year last weekend to advance to this divisional
round matchup against the New England Patriots.
It should not have come as a surprise,
however, that the Jags won last week. The
football betting lines favored the visitors
and rightly so, as the Jags have been built,
it seems, specifically to get them past
Pittsburgh and give them a chance to beat
anyone. In the past five meetings between
the Jaguars and Steelers in Pittsburgh,
Jacksonville has walked out with four wins.
Jacksonville
Jaguars +13 at New England Patriots –13
The jaguars will have to wear down the
aging linebacker corps of the Patriots
if they are to duplicate the success they
had last week. Maurice Jones-Drew will
pound the ball inside between the tackles
and then Fred Taylor will change things
up, going to the edges. This will force
Tedy Bruschi and Junior Seau to have to
chase down the zone stretch runs and will
likely force safety Rodney Harrison to
step into the box to help out. The Patriots
do not have a lot of depth at these key
run-stopping positions and, if Jacksonville
can establish the running game early and
not fall too far behind, they will be in
excellent shape to score some late points
on sustained drives.
NFL Divisional Playoffs: Saturday, January
12, 2008 at 8:00 EST
Jaguars quarterback David Garrard is a
great story this season and he has backed
up his coaches shocking decision to drop
incumbent starter Byron Leftwich one week
before the start of the season by becoming
one of the most efficient, if not flashy,
starters in the NFL betting this year.
It seemed he may have had a case of the
nerves starting his first playoff game
in Pittsburgh last week, as he made a couple
of awful throws completely out of his character
this year. He will not be able to get away
with the same errors against New England
that the Steelers could not take advantage
of.
This Saturday, the BetUS sportsbook has
the Jaguars as 13-point road dogs. If you
bet on football, you know that a spread
this big is a rare thing by the time one
gets to the divisional playoffs. So far
this season, betting on the Patriots has
been an almost sure winner. You know what
the Pats can pull off. Now you must decide
whether Garrard and the Jags running game
can counter.
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