Dolphins a 5.5 Point Favorite Over The Titans | FinHeaven - Miami Dolphins Forums

Dolphins a 5.5 Point Favorite Over The Titans

Nublar7

Nublar7

Retired FinHeaven Staff
Super Donator
Club Member
Joined
Aug 13, 2003
Messages
36,403
Reaction score
5,246
Location
120 mi west of Costa Rica
Excuse me if this was already posted. I did a search and even went back a few pages and didn't see it.

http://www.vegas.com/gaming/

Miami is a 5.5 point favorite over the Tennessee Titans. I think that is probably about right. I don't know if we can beat them by more then 6 points. I see this game going down to the very end just like yesterday's Jets game.
 
Nublar7 said:
Excuse me if this was already posted. I did a search and even went back a few pages and didn't see it.

http://www.vegas.com/gaming/

Miami is a 5.5 point favorite over the Tennessee Titans. I think that is probably about right. I don't know if we can beat them by more then 6 points. I see this game going down to the very end just like yesterday's Jets game.
Click to expand...

Tennessee's not gonna lay down indeed. They're pretty much playing for pride and next season like we are. Although it's going to be close, I say we pull it out in another close one. My prediction for this game is 24-17 Phinz.

Hopefully, whatever QB we put in does well enough to pull out the win and avoids the big mistakes. Although, I'd like to see us run a bit more in this game. Our defense, especially the secondary, may have its hands full against a healthy McNair.
 
Nublar7 said:
Excuse me if this was already posted. I did a search and even went back a few pages and didn't see it.

http://www.vegas.com/gaming/

Miami is a 5.5 point favorite over the Tennessee Titans. I think that is probably about right. I don't know if we can beat them by more then 6 points. I see this game going down to the very end just like yesterday's Jets game.
Click to expand...

I agree Nub. I think that is about right. Smart money is on the Dolphins to cover though. ;) :lol:
 
I took the Titans +6 today. It's almost solid 5.5s but 6 is my take number on the road if the favorite is .500 or worse so I grabbed the 6 at one joint. I can't see it going much higher although the favorites have been rising all year.

The only problem with this one is it's a non-division game so there is less familiarity and therefore less intensity and more possibility of a blowout. The games recently with losing teams giving 6 or more at home have almost all been division games:

* Green Bay -6 hosting Minnesota
* Green Bay -7 hosting Detroit
* Tennessee -7 hosting Houston
* Miami -6 hosting Buffalo
* Miami -9 hosting the Jets

That's one of my annual favorite systems but this year it's on a terrific roll and I can't remember such a high percentage of division games among the sample. Normally they don't give you as many points with the underdog in a division game but this season the public has been doing well on the favorites in general so they have no fear of betting up mediocre favorites in division games. They also haven't cashed any tickets on those games, but that's apparently irrelevant.

The road-non division after Monday night angle finally had a play and a nice winner on Sunday, capping a great Sunday. I mentioned that angle early in the year and it started out 4-0 then had a couple losers followed by a long lull with virtually no plays. In fact, I can't remember a season with so few plays on that system. You bet against any team that played on Monday night the week before if it plays on the road against a non-division opponent the following week. Last night the play was Chicago over Atlanta, which was a winner both first half and game. Atlanta has been nice enough to flop twice in that scenario this year, the first time in week two at Seattle. The Eagles even managed to cover a game when they benefitted by that system a few weeks ago, beating Green Bay 19-14 to barely cover a -4.5. But it was significant since Philly basically couldn't cover squat all year until they finally benefitted from that scheduling scenario against the Packers.
 
All I have to say is that we had better not lose to the freakin Titans. They are nowhere close to our talent level. Our LBs & Safeties are going to have to do a good job in coverage because the combination of the Titans TEs (Kinney, Troupe, & Scaife) have 132 receptions.
 
Titans passing game is getting on a role lately and our secondary is not the strongest so I think it might turn into a shootout.
 
I forgot to mention there's another one of those games where a home team is favored big but not on its own merit, St. Louis giving 9.5 to the 49ers. Division game to boot.
 
SMadison29 said:
All I have to say is that we had better not lose to the freakin Titans. They are nowhere close to our talent level. Our LBs & Safeties are going to have to do a good job in coverage because the combination of the Titans TEs (Kinney, Troupe, & Scaife) have 132 receptions.
Click to expand...


ummm... they just held the best sack team in the NFL sackless, have a much better quarterback then us, and lots of weapons to throw to against our sorry secondary... i would be VERY concerned here coming off an emotional, intense four-game winning streak...
 
We didn't exactly demolish the Jets or Bills, although they are division opponents we could have played much better in both games. I'm hoping we can pull it out this weekend, but I wouldn't put it past the Titans. They scare me as much as the Chargers, because they've owned us recently while we usually own the Chargers.
 
It should be interesting. The last game that we had this high expectations was against the Browns.
 
Mcnair is playing and he's been playing good. He has burned Madison a number of times in recent memory.

It will not be an easy game. They are a MUCH better team than the Jets and Raiders.

We need to win this game to gaurantee that we finish the season over .500...

:dolphins:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom