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AAA's EARLY *Bengals/Colts* BLOCKBUSTER (81-60 +$8,920 NFL Y-T-D!)
(NFL) Cincinnati vs. Indianapolis,
Point Spread: 4.00 | -110.00 Cincinnati (Away)
Result: Loss
Point Spread: 4.00 | -110.00 Cincinnati (Away)
Result: Loss
This is an 8* BLOCKBUSTER on the Cincinnati Bengals.
While I obviously feel that the outright win isn't out of the question, I will in the end recommend grabbing as many points as you can. Cincinnati hasn't won a playoff game since 1991, but I think has a very legitimate shot at winning this one outright! This is a big time revenge scenario as well as the Bengals suffered their worst loss of the year at the hands of the Colts. Indianapolis has shown some cracks in the armor down the stretch once again this year, QB Andrew Luck is in fact "stoppable" with an effective pass rush. Despite being down top WR AJ Green because of a concussion, the Bengals still present a problem on offense as Andy Dalton and RB Jeremy Hill will need to step up to avenge the 27-0 loss to the Colts on October 19th: "Man, there were a lot of problems," Bengals safety Reggie Nelson admitted earlier in the week. "We got beat and they got the best of us, so it's always good going back to a stadium, back to the scene of the crime." Since that lop-sided setback though, the Bengals would make adjustments and have dominated down the stretch, going 7-3 the rest of the way. Hill's emergence will absolutely take a lot of the pressure and focus off of Dalton, something that the QB needs to be effective in my opinion. Cincinnati's rookie RB would finish with 1,124 yards for the run heavy offense, a whopping 441 of those came in December, the most in the NFL in that span. Certainly holding Luck down is easier said than done, the Bengals know they'll need to do better in the pass rush department: "Suppressing Andrew Luck is going to be kind of hard," Nelson said. "He always starts off kind of slow and the scary thing is, he can always get his team going." I think there is some room to read between the lines in Luck's big year though, as note that he failed to reach the 300-yard mark in five of his final six games after doing it in nine of his first ten. And that's significant as the Bengals are tied for third in the league with 20 INT's. I think Hill is a big X-factor for Cincinnati as it will lean on its back today to control the clock while on offense and to limit Luck's time on the field of play; I'm grabbing the points with the BENGALS.
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While I obviously feel that the outright win isn't out of the question, I will in the end recommend grabbing as many points as you can. Cincinnati hasn't won a playoff game since 1991, but I think has a very legitimate shot at winning this one outright! This is a big time revenge scenario as well as the Bengals suffered their worst loss of the year at the hands of the Colts. Indianapolis has shown some cracks in the armor down the stretch once again this year, QB Andrew Luck is in fact "stoppable" with an effective pass rush. Despite being down top WR AJ Green because of a concussion, the Bengals still present a problem on offense as Andy Dalton and RB Jeremy Hill will need to step up to avenge the 27-0 loss to the Colts on October 19th: "Man, there were a lot of problems," Bengals safety Reggie Nelson admitted earlier in the week. "We got beat and they got the best of us, so it's always good going back to a stadium, back to the scene of the crime." Since that lop-sided setback though, the Bengals would make adjustments and have dominated down the stretch, going 7-3 the rest of the way. Hill's emergence will absolutely take a lot of the pressure and focus off of Dalton, something that the QB needs to be effective in my opinion. Cincinnati's rookie RB would finish with 1,124 yards for the run heavy offense, a whopping 441 of those came in December, the most in the NFL in that span. Certainly holding Luck down is easier said than done, the Bengals know they'll need to do better in the pass rush department: "Suppressing Andrew Luck is going to be kind of hard," Nelson said. "He always starts off kind of slow and the scary thing is, he can always get his team going." I think there is some room to read between the lines in Luck's big year though, as note that he failed to reach the 300-yard mark in five of his final six games after doing it in nine of his first ten. And that's significant as the Bengals are tied for third in the league with 20 INT's. I think Hill is a big X-factor for Cincinnati as it will lean on its back today to control the clock while on offense and to limit Luck's time on the field of play; I'm grabbing the points with the BENGALS.
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