GRAB OUR BEST Expert NFL Picks for 2012 NFL FOOTBALL Betting!<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\nLast week was Dalton\u2019s best game of the season, mainly because he took care of the football so well. Cincinnati really hasn\u2019t been able to establish any running game this year, which puts a lot more pressure on the passing game to perform. The Bengals average 24.4 points per game.<\/p>\n
Cincinnati\u2019s defense has been dinged up all season. The Bengals secondary used to be an area of strength, but this season it has been a weakness due to numerous injuries. Geno Atkins doesn\u2019t get the kind of recognition he deserves, but he has turned into a real game-changer on the defensive line. Atkins already has seven sacks this year. Cincinnati has improved at pressuring the opposing quarterback, and that makes them a better defense than they were earlier this year. [soliloquy id=”82219″]<\/p>\n
Kansas City<\/strong><\/p>\nThe Kansas City Chiefs played a very solid football game in Pittsburgh this past Monday and it had to be really disheartening for the team to lose another tough game. The Chiefs are now 1-8 on the season. Matt Cassel led the Chiefs to a game tying field goal in the final minutes last week, but he threw an inexcusable interception that cost them the game in overtime. Cassel has taken a lot of heat, but he clearly isn\u2019t the only problem for this Chiefs team. Other than Jamaal Charles, it\u2019s hard to find guys who are having a really strong season. The Chiefs offense has been very inconsistent this year.<\/p>\n
Kansas City\u2019s defense played very well last week, but they haven\u2019t been very good most of the season. The Chiefs do have two very good pass rushers in Justin Houston and Tamba Hali. Linebacker Derrick Johnson is having a career year, and he leads the team with 67 tackles. The Chiefs haven\u2019t given up a ton of yards, but opponents have had far too much success in the red zone this year. To be fair to the defense, they have also been put in a lot of bad spots by the offense and special teams.<\/p>\n
Look for both of these defenses to continue their improved play of late. Both teams should be able to pressure the quarterback and make throwing the ball difficult. I like this to stay under the posted total.<\/p>\n
Free NFL Pick: Under 43.5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cincinnati vs Kansas City Odds & Prediction The Cincinnati Bengals bounced back with a big win over the New York Giants last week. Cincinnati still has a long ways to go to get back in the playoff picture, and they absolutely need to win this game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":24240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[39626,57098,57099,57100,57101,4897,4898,2220,10717,4222],"class_list":["post-57456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl","tag-39626","tag-bengals-chiefs-spread","tag-bengals-vs-chiefs","tag-cincinnati-bengals-vs-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-cincinnati-vs-kansas-city","tag-nfl-football-lines","tag-nfl-football-odds","tag-nfl-football-picks","tag-nfl-football-predictions","tag-week-11"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57456"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57599,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57456\/revisions\/57599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}