Browns LB Jackson out "weeks" with chest injury

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08/12/2010 - Berea, OH (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Cleveland Browns linebacker D'Qwell Jackson will rest for the next few weeks and then be re-evaluated after suffering a serious injury to his right pectoral muscle.

Jackson had his 2009 season cut short after suffering a torn left pectoral muscle in Week 6 against Pittsburgh. He led the league in tackles a year earlier with 154 stops in starting all 16 games.

The 26-year-old was initially going to hold out of training camp after skipping minicamp and offseason practices before signing his 2010 tender in June. He suffered the latest injury at practice Tuesday and head coach Eric Mangini indicated the team will take a cautious approach.

"Right now, the plan is to just let it quiet down for a few weeks and then see where we are at that point and go from there," Mangini said at his press conference Thursday. "What we'll do is we'll let him rehab for the next couple of weeks and then re-evaluate him at that point."

The Cleveland Plain-Dealer reported earlier that the injury will keep Jackson sidelined for 4-to-8 weeks and that he was seeking a second opinion.

Jackson added three interceptions and two sacks to his standout performance in 2008 in just his third year in the league. He totaled 59 tackles and a forced fumble before his injury in 2009 and has 407 career stops, three sacks and four picks in 49 games for Cleveland over parts of four seasons.

He was a second-round pick of the Browns in 2006 out of Maryland.

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Rule No. 1 in the gamblers' handbook states, "Avoid sports betting on meaningless games."

When you're drowning in a sea of baseball monotony, however, things change. Even a hint of pro football betting can persuade the most disciplined bettor to break a few rules. 

The NFL preseason is around the corner, with a tempting Hall of Fame match kicking off on Sunday. But bettors must stay vigilant. Wagering on NFL exhibition games is an entirely different beast than the regular season. Most fans don't recognize the players on the field because starters get as much action in August as Warcraft fans get on Prom night.

The only certainty about the NFL this time of year is uncertainty – and yet there are some who say betting in August can be a gold mine.

“I actually feel the NFL preseason presents solid profit opportunities for sharp bettors and handicappers,” Sports Expert Steve Merril explains. “My experience has been that the sportsbooks fear the preseason, which is evident by lower limits and massive moves.”

The line moves are attributed to the limited knowledge available regarding playing-time distribution. One team’s top unit out on the field for one more series has an impact on the pointspread. Setting lines in the preseason often is a shot in the dark.

“We base the betting lines mostly on public perception,” Pete Korner, founder of the Sports Club in Las Vegas, says. “It’s very tough to predict, almost a guessing game.”

The preseason is all about figuring out who’s in and for how long.

“It becomes a race between bettors and oddsmakers to find out how long the quarterbacks are going to stay in,” Korner admits. “If a sharp gets the information first, he could exploit an early line. I’m a full believer in moving the line in the preseason if the books find out something late in the week.”

Determining what each team’s motive is can help bettors handicap. To do this you must pay close attention to the philosophies head coaches employ in exhibition play.

“You need to know what a coach is trying to accomplish,” says Covers Expert Bryan Leonard. “Sometimes a new coach will want to instill a winning attitude. Others just want to make sure their starters don’t get hurt."

So how do you distinguish who’s playing scared and who’s playing for keeps?

“Head coaches on the hot seat or new coaches trying to implement a winning attitude usually try harder to win in the preseason,” Merril says.

Cleveland Browns head coach Romeo Crennel fits this criteria. He’s entering his third season as the sideline boss and has yet to lead the Browns to more than six wins.

Cleveland is an enticing bet as well because of the unresolved quarterback situation. General manager Phil Savage sacrificed the Browns’ first-round pick in next year’s draft for Brady Quinn, but the former Notre Dame quarterback hasn’t signed or reported to training camp yet.

Charlie Frye and Derek Anderson split time at QB last season and it looks like either player (or even Quinn) could be the opening-day starter.

“If a team has quarterback depth and the pecking order hasn’t been decided, it’s a big advantage,” Leonard says.

Even in the third week of the preseason when starters generally play the most, the final outcome of the game is in the hands of fringe players. A team's talent, all the way down to the last man on the roster, is something to consider.

The New England Patriots have long been considered one of the deeper teams in the NFL and coach Bill Belichick has said in the past he’s unafraid of stars getting hurt in games with nothing on the line. He shocked his colleagues in 2003 by playing some of his starters on special teams in the preseason.

“We want to have the team ready to play a tough, physical game and preparation has to go into that and I imagine a certain amount of injuries go with it,” Belichick told the Providence Journal in August 2003.

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