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NFL Betting Preview: Steelers @ Titans

Posted by Rob Pizzola under Money making, Pittsburgh Steelers, Tennessee Titans on Oct 11, 2012

Consensus line: Steelers -6.5, total 44
Best line for PIT: Steelers -6, -105 (Bet365)
Best line for TEN: Titans +6.5, -105 (5Dimes)
Current betting percentage: 82% action on the Steelers, 51% action on the OVER

Individual Team Trends:
Steelers are 11-5 ATS in their last 16 games following a ATS loss.
Steelers are 0-6 ATS in their last 6 road games.
Titans are 20-8 ATS in their last 28 games after scoring less than 15 points in their previous game.
Titans are 1-7-1 ATS in their last 9 games overall.
Over is 19-7 in Steelers last 26 games after allowing less than 250 total yards in their previous game.
Over is 9-4 in Steelers last 13 road games.
Under is 5-1-1 in Titans last 7 home games.

Head-to-Head Trends:
Underdog is 6-2 ATS in their last 8 meetings.

The general consensus amongst most people is that the Titans are in for a long Thursday night against the Steelers. That would seem to make sense considering that Tennessee isn’t particularly good at anything. The Titans rank 26th in total offense, 29th in total defense, and their four losses have come by at least three touchdowns. For the untrained eye, this seems like it has blowout written all over it. But to me, this has upset written all over it.

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Journey to the deep: Hartline or bust

Posted by Sean Tomlinson under Brian Hartline, Matt Hasselbeck, Miami Dolphins, Ryan Tannehill, Tennessee Titans, Value mining on Oct 02, 2012

Did your first-round pick tear a muscle you can’t pronounce? Is your top running back doing more sucking than running? Welp, let’s look for sleepers and waiver wire gold together, and be wrong together, and cry together.

For anyone who called Week 5 as the week when three Dolphins would end up on this list and two of them would be receivers, well, you need help.

What a world.

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Locker will likely miss “at least a week or two”

Posted by Sean Tomlinson under Injuries, Jake Locker, Tennessee Titans on Oct 01, 2012

Regular folk know that Monday is the worst day of their lives each week, a time when joyous weekend activities are over, and fun is experienced by no one. NFL folk know it as a time for damage control and self-assessment, and we roll on in that vein again here after discovering earlier today that Santonio Holmes won’t be available to an offense that already sucked with Santonio Holmes, and Michael Vick tweaked his knee, but he’s probably alright.

Now we turn our attention to Titans quarterback Jake Locker, who left Tennessee’s loss to Houston yesterday early in the first quarter after just two pass attempts when he suffered a shoulder injury. The news on Locker is the opposite of good, but it’s not catastrophic.

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Chris Johnson is the most unpredictable man in the world

Posted by Sean Tomlinson under Chris Johnson, Matt Ryan, Reaction, Tennessee Titans on Sep 30, 2012

We may have met an old acquaintance during the early games, and we discovered a new, really cool friend too. If you make a waiver claim on him this week, Brandon Bolden could be like the kid on the block who was the first to get a Nintendo complete with Duck Hunt.

Before we get to Bolden, let’s explore the revival of an old friendship. We used to laugh and break bread with Chris Johnson, but prior to today he mostly just made us want to break stuff that definitely isn’t edible.

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Locker leaves game with shoulder injury

Posted by Darren Kritzer under Injuries, Jake Locker, Tennessee Titans on Sep 30, 2012

UPDATE: Locker looks to be out for the remainder of the game.

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Via: sbnation.com

Tennessee Titans quarterback Jake Locker has left the game against the Houston Texans after taking a huge hit from Texans safety Glover Quin. Locker looked to be in considerable pain and was immediately taken to the locker room for further tests.

The team is now saying he is questionable to return with a left shoulder injury, the same one he injured back in Week 1 against the Patriots. Matt Hasselbeck is in the game for the Titans.

On the day, Locker had no completions on only two attempts.

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The Tape Never Lies: Chris Johnson is dancing, and missing running lanes

Posted by Alen Dumonjic under Chris Johnson, Tennessee Titans, The Tape Never Lies on Sep 27, 2012

Let’s be frank here: Chris Johnson’s struggles have made your fantasy football team suck. I know very little about fantasy football, but I know how to read a stat line, and this is what Johnson’s says through three weeks of the season: 33 carries, 45 yards, and a meager 1.4 yards per carry. That’s got to affect your team, because it’s, well, not good.

There’s a few reasons for Johnson’s struggles, starting with the man himself. He has left yards on the field on occasion because he’s either not seeing them, not beating the tackler, or he’s far too interested in bouncing it to the outside where he believes he can outrun the entire defense and Usain Bolt. But he’s not solely to blame; the Titans’ offensive line shares some blame, and so do the damn good run defenses he’s faced.

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Five questions with Chris Wesseling

Posted by Sean Tomlinson under Chris Johnson, Questions and answers, Tennessee Titans on Sep 26, 2012

Pictured: lost hope

Soon Chris Johnson’s plunge into irrelevancy won’t even be notable. We’ll just shrug, and conclude that he’s eroded so thoroughly that his record-setting 2009 season was very much an outlier, and far from the norm. He simply won’t matter any more after a fade that’s reached its peak and has been brewing for a full season now.

And when that day comes, it’ll be the saddest statement of all. But it’ll take a while getting here for fantasy owners since Johnson was almost universally drafted in the first round, and now despite the glimpse of life he showed with a season-high 24 rushing yards in Week 3 (seriously), he’s still averaging 1.4 yards per carry. For the ultimate perspective on how crushingly crappy Johnson’s 45 rushing yards thus far is, Jake Locker — you know, the guy who hands Johnson the ball — has 67 yards, 31 of which came on one scramble this past Sunday.

I’ve visited and re-visited this topic several times over the first few weeks. What should the Chris Johnson owner do? Benching him is too painful given where he was drafted, but that may be the only option remaining now, especially in the immediate future with the Titans visiting Houston and opposing the Texans’ tough run defense this weekend. Full disclosure: I’m a CJ1.4YPC owner too, and am the self-elected chair of the support group.

For some more insight on the suggested strategy for Johnson going forward and his possible status as a buy-low candidate, I talked to Rotoworld‘s Chris Wesseling. We also meandered through the other sources of your running back anger/frustration/tears, discussing the early struggles and likely future production of Darren McFadden and Shonn Greene, and if Ahmad Bradshaw owners still actually own an RB2.

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