As Week 2 in the NFL concluded, under bettor's marched their way to the ticket window in the lowest-scoring "Monday Night Football" game ever.
Wearing protective padding around his midsection, Ben Roethlisberger returned to Pittsburgh's lineup Monday night, barely two weeks after an emergency appendectomy. The Jaguars made him pay for his courage, harassing the quarterback and stopping the defending Super Bowl champions' nine-game SU winning streak with a 9-0 victory.
The Steelers (1-1 SU & ATS) kept it close all game, and got the ball back with about five minutes to play, down 6-0. But Rashean Mathis intercepted Roethlisberger's slant pass and returned it into field goal range. Josh Scobee kicked three field goals for the Jaguars (2-0 SU & ATS), who improved to 4-0 SU against the Steelers in September and 3-0 SU against them on Monday night.
The shutout was Jacksonville's first since December 2003 against Houston. It also was the fifth time the defending Super Bowl champions have been shut out; the 1980 Steelers were blanked once, and the 1981 Raiders were shut out three times.
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Notes: Pittsburgh's 26 yards rushing on 14 carries was the lowest in Bill Cowher's 15 years. The Steelers had no first downs rushing. The Jags have won 10 of their last 12 games dating to last season. The Jags had three players leave with injuries: DE Marcellus Wiley (groin), WR Chad Owens (ribs) and FB Derrick Wimbush (knee).
The dog barked in this contest but overall it was a profitable week for the favorites as chalk teams went 11-5 ATS. In Week 1, NFL teams struggled on offense making for a dominating 12-3 record in favor of the under, but in Week 2 clubs found more productivity offensively creating an O/U mark of 7-7-2. As we head into Week 3 it's likely the trend will continue.
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