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Week 14 Titans vs. Browns NFL Predictions

The Cleveland Browns face off against the Tennessee Titans at 1 PM ET at LP Field in Nashville. We preview and pick this week 14 game…

Titans Vs. Browns in Week 14 Action

The Cleveland Browns (4-8 SU, 7-5 ATS) look like a hopeless bunch right now. On Sunday they will try to get some offense going when they face off against the Tennessee Titans (11-1 SU, 10-1-1 ATS) in NFL pro football sports betting action that is set to kick off at 1 PM ET at LP Field (natural turf) in Nashville.

BetUS NFL betting odds: TENNESSEE -13.5, Total 37.5
NOTABLE STAT: Tennessee allows 14.6 points per game (2nd best in NFL)

KEY NFL FOOTBALL BETTING TREND: Titans are 10-1-1 ATS this season

In the BetUS NFL football betting odds, the Titans are listed as a 13.5-point favorite, with a posted total of 37.5 points.

Here are some NFL football betting trends as they relate to this matchup:

* CLEV has covered 16 of its last 23 games
* CLEV has lost four of its last five games SU
* CLEV has played 13 of its last 18 games UNDER the total
* CLEV has covered four of its last five road games
* CLEV has played six of its last eight road games UNDER the total
* TENN has won 14 of its last 16 games SU
* TENN is 4-1-1 ATS in its last six home games
* TENN has won six of its last seven home games SU
* TENN has played four of its last five home games OVER the total

Also…

* CLEV has covered four of the last six meetings
* Three of the last four meetings have gone OVER the total

Tennessee rebounded from its only loss of the season, a 34-13 destruction by the Jets, with a breather on Thanksgiving Day against Detroit, out-gaining the Lions 456-154 in a 47-10 win. This week they face a team that looks like it’s bumbling just as much on offense in the Cleveland Browns. Cleveland managed only 193 yards in its 10-6 loss to Indianapolis, and has gone two full games without scoring a touchdown.

Things have gotten even worse for the Browns. Derek Anderson, who made the Pro Bowl last season but experienced a very rough ride this year, has been diagnosed with a torn MCL in his left knee, and will require surgery. He’s out for the year, as is Brady Quinn, who took over the job when Anderson was benched, but whet out with a broken right index finger. The position now belongs to Ken Dorsey. Dorsey has thrown four passes without a completion, since 2005, when he was with the San Francisco 49ers.

Tennessee has out-scored its opponents by an average of 10.7 points a game, with four wins by two touchdowns or more. Kerry Collins has done a very good job at avoiding the kind of mistakes that can turn around games. He’s thrown just four interceptions and been sacked only seven times, which means the Browns won’t be experiencing the benefit of many game-changing plays, in all likelihood. Chris Jonson got to stretch his legs for 125 yards, including a 58-yard touchdown run, against Detroit, and LenDale White chipped in 106 more yards and two TD’s. Will Tennessee really need to pass as long as those guys are around to exploit what will be a Cleveland defense (141 rush yards/game allowed) that will be tired from spending so much time on the field?

These are really bad times around Cleveland right now, because so much of the talk has centered on not if, but when, the axe will fall on coach Romeo Crennel and general manager Phil Savage. On the positive side, a lot of the players are sticking up for Crennel, namely Willie McGinest, who told the Akron Beacon Journal, ”We’re all behind RAC 100 percent,” McGinest said. ”He’s one of the few men in here who cares about us, who gives us every opportunity to win, who works as hard we do, takes our losses as hard as we do and tries to do everything he can.”

Nonetheless, Crennel can’t go out there and score touchdowns, and neither will the Browns, with Dorsey at the helm. There are some technical numbers in favor of Cleveland, to be sure; the Browns have covered their last six times out as an underdog, for example. But the Titans are the red-hot pointspread team this year, with a sizzling 10-1-1 record against the number. That’s the best in the league. We’ll lay it with the Titans, the 13.5-point favorite in the BetUS Sportsbook NFL betting odds.

Our PLAY: TENNESSEE -13.5 **

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