The New York Jets are coming off an exceptional Week 2 win behind a pair of franchise firsts, but will have their work cut out when they take on Tennessee team that will be riding high after a come-from-behind victory over San Diego last time out. <\/p>\n
When: Sunday, Sept. 29, 2013 at 4:05 PM EST<\/b>
\nWhere: LP Field\u00a0 <\/b>
\nTV: CBS<\/b>
\nLINE: -3 1\/2 (Titans), O\/U 39<\/b>
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ATS Matchup Stats<\/a> | Gambling Insight!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Check out our in-house Handicapper!!! Buy Razor Ray’s NFL FOOTBALL Picks Today!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n New York won its last outing, 27-20 over the Bills behind a 300-yard passing effort from quarterback Geno Smith and two 100-yard receivers, plus a career-high 149 -yard-rushing performance from Bilal Powell.<\/p>\n Smith become the first rookie in franchise history to top 300 yards, while hitting wide receiver Santonio Holmes five times for a career-high 154 yards.\u00a0 However, Smith was picked off twice versus the Bills.<\/p>\n Defensively, the Jets defense, which is permitting 16 points per game, was as good as it has been, recording eight sacks against Buffalo.<\/p>\n That could be a problem for a Titans offense that has not scored more than 17 points against New York in seven straight meetings.<\/p>\n However, this year’s Titans squad is much better than the previous few years, and is off to a surprising 2-1 record behind a 131-receiving-yard effort from Nate Washington who helped his team to a 20-17 victory over the Chargers last week.<\/p>\n Much like the Jets, the Titans entered the 2013 season with questions about quarterback Jake Locker who had battled injuries and inconsistencies in his first two seasons<\/p>\n But Locker has benefited from a strong running game, led by Chris Johnson, who leads the AFC with 256 yards rushing.<\/p>\n Johnson has had good luck against the Jet s, busting out a 94-yard scoring run last season.<\/p>\n Nevertheless, he will be tested by a defense that is giving up just 79 yards on the ground.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the Titans defense is showing a big turnaround from 2012, yielding just over 18 points per game after surrendering a league-worst 471 points last season.<\/p>\n Matt’s Free Prediction<\/b><\/p>\n New York has dominated this series, going 6-1 ATS in their past seven meetings with the Titans, and this matchup is a tough one to call.<\/p>\n However, I think Tennessee is the better team with the better ground game and while Powell should eat up some nice yardage in this one, I think Chris Johnson will fare far better here.<\/p>\n Titans 28, Jets 21<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New York vs Tennessee NFL Football Spread\/Handicapping The New York Jets are coming off an exceptional Week 2 win behind a pair of franchise firsts, but will have their work cut out when they take on Tennessee team that will be riding high after a come-from-behind victory over San Diego last time out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":978,"featured_media":64488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66754","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\/978"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66754"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66777,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66754\/revisions\/66777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}*CLICK HERE* GRAB OUR BEST Expert NFL FOOTBALL Picks for 2013 GAMBLING season!<\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n