Friday, May 25th, 2012
The Arizona Cardinals will take it to the road when they face the surging Tennessee Titans in an NFL football game Sunday afternoon. Kick off time in Tennessee is scheduled for 4:15PM Eastern Time with regional television coverage provided by Fox. The LVSC NFL odds makers have set the opening point spread in this game and the Arizona Cardinals were opened as a 1-point favorite with the over under coming in at 48. The early money from the NFL betting public has stormed in on the home team, as the Tennessee Titans are now a 3-point favorite. The over under has seen early betting movement towards the under, as the total is now lined at 46. NFL money line gamblers can make a play on the favored Tennessee Titans at –140 with the road underdog Arizona Cardinals returning +120 to win straight up without the points on their side.
The Tennessee Titans are red-hot entering this game winner of 4 straight games. They enter this game on a short week defeating AFC South division rival Houston Texans on the road 20-17. In the win the team was able to rush for 228 yards in victory. The team made the switch off their bye week to Vince Young and it has led to their 4 straight victories. The Titans have changed dramatically on offense as they now run about two thirds of the time with Young under center. Vince Young is hitting on 63% of his passes this season with only 3 touchdowns and 2 interceptions. Vince Young has done damage with his feet compiling 102 yards on just 16 carries over the past two weeks. Chris Johnson has run very well averaging 6.2 yards a carry on the season. Johnson is coming off a 151 yard rushing performance in the teams’ victory against Houston. A big plus for the Titans has been their ability to cut down their turnovers as they have committed just 2 during their winning streak and own a +6 turnover margin during that span. Defensively the Titans allow a high 27 points per game but that point total has reduced as the team has gone to a ball control running style game. Arizona has also played good football as they are winners of 6 of their past 7 games. They are coming off a win over St Louis last week 21-13. Arizona was able to gain 444 yards in victory. Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner had to leave last weeks game with a slight concussion. Warner has practiced this week and is scheduled to play on Sunday. Warner is hitting on 67.5% of his passes this season with 20 touchdowns and 11 interceptions. In one half of play last week against St Louis, Warner was able to hit on 15 of 19 for 203 yards two touchdowns and no picks. Rookie running back Beanie Wells has gotten over his early fumbling problems and is averaging 4.7 yards a carry this season. He is coming off a nice game last week against the Rams rushing for 74 yards on 14 carries. Wells has rushed for no less than 4.8 yards a carry over his past 5 games. Arizona will need to be good against the run and the team has done a good job allowing just 103 yards per game and just 4.3 yards per rush attempt against.
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NFL Trend: Tennessee Titans are 4-0 ATS in their past 4 games
The Wagerline consensus has 51.8% of the NFL bettors on Tennessee -3
The Wagerline consensus has 60.1% of the NFL bettors playing over 46
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