Friday, May 25th, 2012
The Buffalo Bills will travel to face the Tennessee Titans in an NFL football game on Sunday afternoon. Kick off time in Tennessee is scheduled for 1PM Eastern Time with national television coverage provided by CBS. The LVSC NFL odds makers set the opening point spread in this contest and the Tennessee Titans opened as a 5 ½ point favorite with the over under coming in at 40 1/2. The early money from the NFL betting public has come in on the home favorite, as the Tennessee Titans are currently a 7-point favorite. The total has seen early action towards the over, as the over under is currently lined at 41. NFL money line gamblers can make a play on the favored Tennessee Titans at –320 with the road underdog Buffalo Bills returning +260 to win this game straight up with no points on their side.
With the quarterback change to Vince Young under center the Tennessee Titans stormed out of their bye week with two straight victories. The team put up 30 on Jacksonville and a week ago piled a 34-point effort on the San Francisco 49ers on the road. The Tennessee Titans leaned heavily on their running game with 83 rushes and only 27 passes during the past two games. So the Vince Young impact has been very minimal to the success of the team, as the Titans have produced 457 rushing yards in those two games. Vince Young is not a threat to throw the football downfield and shrinks the field for his offense and he relies on the short throws. At some points Vince Young is going to resort back to his old form as opposing defensive coordinators will adjust their defenses to his limited abilities as an NFL quarterback. Running back Chris Johnson has been very effective running the football with 6.7 yards per carry average this season in 144 rushing attempts on the season. Johnson has rushed for 363 yards over his past two games. A positive for the Titans is that they played turnover free football over the past two weeks. The Titans defense has forced turnovers the past two weeks with 6 total. They did allow San Francisco to move the ball downfield with 250 passing yards last week. Buffalo is 3-5 on the season and coming off a bye week. The team last played on November 1st and dropped a 31-10 decision at home to the Houston Texans. The team could not generate much offense with 97 yards rushing and just 107 through the air. Buffalo third year quarterback Trent Edwards will be back under center after missing the better part of two games with a concussion. Edwards has hit o 59.5% of his passes with just 5 touchdowns and 6 interceptions. Edwards has not thrown downfield much often settling for the underneath throws and that’s what has contributed to a very low 6.44 yards per pass attempt average on the season. Running back Fred Jackson has struggled producing no better than 3.5 yards a carry over the past 4 games. Marshawn Lynch hasn’t been much better at all with just 3.1 yards per attempt average this season. The Bills rush defense will be greatly challenged on Sunday and the unit allows a league worst 5.1 yards per rush attempt. With injuries to the Bills defensive unit opposing running backs have been able to gain chunks of yardage up the middle of the Bills defense.
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NFL Trend: Buffalo Bills are 4-0 to the under in their past 4 games
The Wagerline consensus has 65.8% of the NFL bettors on Tennessee -7
The Wagerline consensus has 56.3% the NFL bettors playing under 41
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