Thursday, May 24th, 2012
The Pittsburgh Steelers coming off they bye week will travel to face the Denver Broncos on Monday Night Football. Kick off time in Denver is scheduled for 8:30PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by ESPN. The LVSC NFL football odds makers have set the opening point spread in this game and the game was opened as a pick with the over under coming in at 38 ½. The early money from the NFL betting public has come in on the road team, as the Pittsburgh Steelers are currently a 3-point favorite. The total has seen early betting towards the over, as the total is currently lined at 39 for the NFL betting public to play into. NFL money line gamblers can make a play on the favored Pittsburgh Steelers at –155 with the home underdog Denver Broncos bringing back +135 to win straight up without the point spread a factor in the bet.
Denver will host this Monday Night Game off their first loss of the season losing 30-7 at Baltimore. Denver was grounded offensively last week with just 66 yards rushing on 19 tries and 134 yards through the air. The Broncos failed to go downfield on the Ravens troubled secondary. The Broncos defense allowed Joe Flacco to hit on 80% of his passes. Denver is a perfect 3-0 at home this season with wins against Cleveland, Dallas and New England at the Mile High altitude. Broncos quarterback Kyle Orton has been accurate this season hitting on 63% of his passes with 9 touchdowns and just 1 interception this season. Rookie running back Knowshon Moreno has been the workhorse in the Broncos backfield with 420 yards on 109 carries for 3.9 yards per carry average. Running back Correll Buckhalter has been very efficient with 6.0 yards per carry average on 55 carries this season. The Broncos have given up their most points of the season the past two games giving up 23 to San Diego and 30 last week to Baltimore. The Broncos gave up a special teams touchdown to both San Diego and to Baltimore. The Steelers are coming off a bye week and sitting at 5-2 this season. The lone losses by the Steelers this season have come in road games losing by a field goal at Chicago and Cincinnati. The Steelers looked ragged in their other road contest winning just 28-20 at Detroit with Big Ben giving up a pick six and the Lions were successful moving the football on the Steelers pass defense. Ben Roethlisberger is hitting on 70% of his passes with 11 touchdowns and 6 interceptions on the season. Big Ben has been sacked 20 times on the year. The Steelers running game has awakened with Rashard Mendenhall running the football with 5.4 yards per carry average on the season. Denver’s rushing game will be tested here as the Steelers sit in the top half of the league giving up just 3.8 yards per rush attempt and only 76.4 yards a game. Prior to their bye the Pittsburgh Steelers handed the Minnesota Vikings their first loss of the season. They limited Vikings running back Adrian Peterson to just 69 yards on 18 carries for 3.8 yards per carry average. Favre attempted 50 passes in the game completing 33 of them for 334 yards no touchdowns and 1 interception. Pittsburgh forced key turnovers they greatly aided in their victory with an interception and fumble returned for a touchdown in the fourth quarter. Minnesota was just 1 of 5 in the red zone.
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NFL Trend: The Over is 9-2 in their past 11 meetings
The Wagerline consensus has 68.2% of the NFL bettors on Pittsburgh +3
The Wagerline consensus has 59.5% of the NFL bettors playing over 39
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