NFL Sunday Betting Action - Jaguars vs. Bengals

It’s another great weekend of pigskin sports betting, and the ninth week of the NFL betting season kicks off on Sunday. Two teams struggling against the spread meet at Paul Brown Stadium when the Jacksonville Jaguars (3-4, 2-5 ATS) do battle with the Cincinnati Bengals (0-8, 2-6 ATS); kickoff is set for 1:00 ET on Sunday.

These two teams last met in 2005, a hotly contested game which saw the Jags come out on top 23-20. The game resulted in a push for football bettors. Jacksonville has won four straight in this series, going 3-0-1 ATS in the process. They own the all-time series lead with a 10-5-1 ATS advantage.

Even though they were favored by a touchdown, Jacksonville never led in its football betting match-up with the Cleveland Browns last weekend. The only chance they had came right at the very end of the game with just a few seconds remaining, but the potential game-winning touchdown pass skipped off of the hands of WR Matt Jones to preserve the 23-16 home defeat for Jacksonville.

QB David Garrard was solid, throwing two touchdown passes in the loss, but the struggles of the running game were once again apparent. RBs Maurice Jones-Drew and Fred Taylor only combined to rush the ball 20 times for 53 yards, and neither had a run of longer than five yards on the day. After combining to rush for almost 2,000 yards a year ago, the duo is only on a pace to manage 1,362 this season.

It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that the Jags rank just 25th in the NFL in terms of points per game with 20.1, and that they need to start picking up wins in a hurry if they’re going to be in the playoffs this year.

Houston, we have a problem! QB Ryan Fitzpatrick couldn’t get anything going offensively against the Texans. He only threw for 155 and two picks to go with a fumble. Cincinnati only had the ball for 24:49. The end result was a 35-6 road defeat.

The NFL betting gods haven’t exactly been kind to the Bengals of late either, as they haven’t even come close to the football betting line in three weeks. The Texans, Steelers, and Jets have outscored Cincy by a whopping 99-30 count. The Bengals haven’t covered a non-double-digit spread all season, nor have they covered the spread against an AFC opponent.

Their offense ranks dead last in the NFL in both total yards per game (229) and points per game (13).

It should come as no surprise that the oddsmakers have installed the Bengals as 8-point home underdogs in this NFL betting match-up with the ‘total’ set at 40.

Facing the AFC South has been a recipe for disaster for Bengals bettors for several years now, as they’re just 2-6-1 ATS since 2004. The problem is that Jacksonville is 0-3 ATS in their L/3 versus the AFC North. In Cincy’s L/4 against the AFC South, ‘under’ bettors are a perfect 4-0. With Jacksonville’s struggling offense, that might be the way to go this weekend.

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