Jacksonville Jaguars tie record

[spuwho]

Las Vegas announced that the Jag-Broncos games has tied the NFL record for the largest spread in history.

-28

http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/9785515/denver-broncos-tie-record-highest-point-spread

The kingpins of betting admitted they struggled to figure out what an appropriate spread should be.  ESPN also published the "Stay Classy" Twitter war.

Jacksonville Jaguars        ✔ @jaguars

Stay classy, Denver. RT @DenverBroncos: The #Broncos' 51 points in yesterday's win are as many points as the Jaguars have scored all season.

Denver's original tweet:

Denver Broncos        ✔ @DenverBroncos

No shots, just stats. RT @jaguars: Stay classy, Denver. MT @DenverBroncos: #Broncos' 51 pts Sun. are as many as JAX has scored all season.


Of all the records Peyton Manning is laying waste to through the first five weeks of this season -- 20 passing touchdowns, 1,884 passing yards, 230 points -- it is perhaps this number that best defines how dominant he and the Denver Broncos have been: minus-28.

That's how many points Denver is favored by over the Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 6 opening lines posted by the Las Vegas Hotel.
According to The Gold Sheet, a sports-betting publication that has been tracking point spreads since the 1950s, that number ties the highest spread of all time, set by the Baltimore Colts over the expansion Atlanta Falcons in 1966. The Falcons covered. It is the highest since the AFL-NFL merger in 1970.

"The Jaguars are just so awful, and the interest in betting on the Broncos has been pretty consistent," Jay Kornegay, who runs the sports book at the Las Vegas Hotel, said Sunday night. "There's a group of us here who put together the lines for each week, and it took us 10-15 minutes to debate what this number would be. Some folks didn't feel that good about making history with this."

The Broncos have become the kind of team that recreational bettors can't stay away from. They're scoring 46 points per game, which is 16 points more than the second-best team in the league, the Dallas Cowboys. They are winning games by an average of 18 points, and other than against the Cowboys this past Sunday, they've covered not just the point spread, but the over in every game.

In recent history, it's a run matched only by the 2007 New England Patriots, who went undefeated during the regular season and began the year 8-0 against the spread, regularly winning as 15- or 16-point favorites. But despite how dominant they had been, even the Patriots didn't see spreads that approached more than three touchdowns until the second half of the season. It happened three times -- 24 against the Philadelphia Eagles, 20½ against the New York Jets and 22 against the Miami Dolphins -- and all three times the underdogs covered. In fact, after starting the season as can't-miss favorites, the Pats went 2-8 against the spread to end the season, including their only outright loss, in the Super Bowl against the New York Giants.

"The Pats were a nightmare for us in every way," Kornegay said. "At first we couldn't stop losing because everyone was on them and they covered. Then once they didn't cover, all the money kept coming in against them. There was nothing we could do."

But the Broncos didn't become four-touchdown favorites six weeks into the season just because they seem to score at will and Manning makes even the best defenses look silly. The Jaguars contributed, too.

As historically awesome as Denver has been, Jacksonville has been equally bad. It took the Jags nearly two games to score a touchdown. It's only thanks to their 20-point outburst against the St. Louis Rams, a relative bonanza, that they're averaging slightly more than 10 points per game, fewer than any other team. (The Jaguars' 51 total points are equal to what the Broncos scored Sunday against Dallas, which Denver pointed out via its Twitter account, garnering a quick response by the Jaguars in a follow-up tweet).

The Broncos didn't miss a beat, responding soon after.

Even worse for the Jaguars, their 112-point differential is tied for second-fewest through five games in league history. (They can thank the 1971 Eagles for being 11 points more inept.)

They have already lost a game in which they were nearly 20-point underdogs -- to the Seattle Seahawks -- by 28 points.

Even many of the professionals in Las Vegas, who pride themselves on betting against big favorites, have turned their backs on the Jaguars. But the best example of how lightly regarded the Jags are by bookmakers and the betting public is the fact that, in Week 5, they were double-digit underdogs to the Rams, a team that had yet to cover a spread this season and was on a three-game losing streak.

The Jaguars did not cover.

Kornegay and his team had been looking ahead to this game for weeks, thinking about basic line-making factors such as how each team was playing and what the betting patterns were. Their challenge is finding a line that will draw equal action on both sides. And, more than anything, the factor that mattered most was public perception. What do fans think of the Broncos? What do fans think of the Jaguars? Those are questions the oddsmakers have been asking themselves, knowing this game was on the horizon.

As a test balloon, they floated a line of Denver minus-26½ several days before the Week 5 games, nearly 10 days in advance of the matchup. Early on, the professional bettors made a few bets on the Jags. "But, today, we saw the public betting on the Rams as nearly two-touchdown favorites against Jacksonville. The Rams!" Kornegay said Sunday night. "Meanwhile, all the money was coming in on the Broncos against the Cowboys. It was clear to us we were going to have to open that number higher."

Historically high, it turns out.

[I-10east]

Breaking news!!!!!

[Noone]

The pressure is on. This is our POWERBOWL!!!!!

[KenFSU]

We don't have much of a chance of winning on Sunday, but it would be a nice moral victory to beat the spread.

In fact, if I was a betting man, I'd totally pick the Jags here.

28 points is just too wide.

[thelakelander]

I'd take the Broncos. They'll have 28 or more by half time. Jags will struggle to get more than 14.

[funwithteeth]

Only way I see the Jags beating the spread is, with blowout safely in hand, Manning sits the 4th and Blackmon goes on a run.

[thelakelander]

If Denver sits on the 4th, it will be the first time they've done it this year.  Unless Manning rides the bench in the 4th, they'll keep scoring throughout the game.

[Bridges]

Jags will struggle to get more than 14.

Don't forget that Chad Henne is the undisputed King Of Garbage Time.  He's good for a TD or two there.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

Jags will struggle to get more than 14.

Don't forget that Chad Henne is the undisputed King Of Garbage Time.  He's good for a TD or two there.

Which is awesome!  Because I'm afraid garbage time will start around the middle of the 2nd quarter.  Lol.




(I kid, I kid....  I-10, breathe my man, breathe)

[Dapperdan]

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FBN_BIGGEST_LINE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-10-07-17-36-18

When will this nightmare be over? It is so very tough to be a Jags fan this year. When the AP picks up on how "hapless" your team is, then it is bad. To me, it could be even worse than the 4 touchdown spread unless they bench Manning in the second half, which is entirely possible.

[spuwho]

I am not into wishing injuries, but what if Manning goes out due to a fluke hit by Cyprien in the first quarter?

Can anyone name the Broncos backup QB?

Anything is possible in the NFL.

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

I am not into wishing injuries, but what if Manning goes out due to a fluke hit by Cyprien in the first quarter?

Can anyone name the Broncos backup QB?

Anything is possible in the NFL.

Brock Oswieller

[thelakelander]

I am not into wishing injuries, but what if Manning goes out due to a fluke hit by Cyprien in the first quarter?

Can anyone name the Broncos backup QB?

Anything is possible in the NFL.

The Jags have a pass rush? It's kind of hard to get QB sacks, hits and pressures when you're on your back, 10 yards down field.

[Garden guy]

I think they should get paid half if they loose..the other half goes to a charity...these boys make millions as loosers...

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

I think they should get paid half if they loose..the other half goes to a charity...these boys make millions as loosers...

They play loose?

They play looser than the other team?

Their shoes aren't tied tightly?

The uniforms don't fit properly?


WTF are you saying?  I would ground my son for a week if he ever even texted me anything as dumb as what you just wrote.  Probably a month if he put it on Facebook where others could see.

GG, you might want to go sit in timeout and think about what you did wrong.