It’s kind of would do-or-die scenario for the Miami Dolphins on Sunday as they play host to the New York Jets. Certainly, whatever else happens with other teams who are contending for the final playoff spot in the AFC, Miami has to emerge victorious against this opponent, which it beat pretty soundly earlier in the season. This pro football betting action gets underway at 1 PM Eastern time at Sun life Stadium in Miami Gardens, FL.
In the NFL lines that have been posted on this game at BetAnySports, the Dolphins are favored by quite a few points:
NFL lines Courtesy of BetAnySports USA Offshore Sportsbook
Miami Dolphins -7.5
New York Jets +7.5
Over 41 points -110
Under 41 points -110
Here is the basic scenario for the Dolphins: they have to win and hope that the Baltimore Ravens either lose their game against Cincinnati or end up in a tie, or that they win and the San Diego Chargers win their game against the Kansas City Chiefs. They went a tie-breaker with San Diego alone, because they beat the Chargers earlier in the season, and they also win the three-way tie-breaker between themselves, the Ravens and the Chargers.
Certainly anyone analyzing the NFL lines on this game knows that if Miami plays anything like they did last week against Buffalo, they are in big trouble. They had just six first downs in that game and barely over 100 yards in total offense, as they were shut out 19-0. Ryan Tannehill was sacked seven times in that game, and he has been dumped 58 times on the season. The running game did not exist in Buffalo (12 yards).
Meanwhile, you wonder why Rex Ryan would have to think about being replaced as the Jets’ head coach. Yet that is what you read when you pick up the New York daily newspapers these days. The players seem solidly behind him, and he has had the burden of having to go with a raw rookie quarterback in Geno Smith, who has turned the ball over 29 times while trying to learn on the job. NFL bettors know that when you have that kind of a situation, with the team that was already expected to bring up the rear in the AFC East, it is very improbable for that team to become a playoff contender, but that’s what the Jets had been up until a couple of weeks ago.
For that, Ryan deserves a lot of credit from BetAnySports customers. However, the speculation is that John Idzik, who is in his first year as general manager of the Jets, might want to go with “his own man” as head coach, and that perhaps that was his angle from the beginning of the season, when he was really pushing for Smith to have the starting job, even though Mark Sanchez was healthy.
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