NFL Picks Week 4: Dolphins Vs. Bengals ‘Thursday Night Football’ Odds, Analysis, Predictions

Editor’s note: NESN.com’s Mike Cole, Ricky Doyle and Andre Khatchaturian deliver their NFL picks every Thursday of the season, and here’s who they like in the Miami Dolphins-Cincinnati Bengals Week 4 game, with the line from OddsShark.

Miami Dolphins (1-2) vs. (-7) Cincinnati Bengals (1-2), 8:30 p.m. ET
Mike: Bengals. This feels like a bad matchup for the Dolphins, who opened the week with 16 players on the injury report. Miami also is a woeful 1-6 against the spread in its last seven coming off a straight-up win, and the Dolphins are 0-7 ATS in their last seven against teams with losing records.
Ricky: Bengals. Cincinnati needs to stop the bleeding after back-to-back losses. Fortunately for the Bengals, they’re facing the Dolphins — not the Steelers or Broncos — at home on a short week. The Bengals also are 5-0 straight up and against the spread in their last five games after consecutive losses.
Andre: Dolphins. The Bengals can’t protect the quarterback (allowing a league-worst 12 sacks), while the Dolphins are good at getting to the quarterback (nine sacks, which ranks seventh). I think the Bengals ultimately will win, but the spread is too large.

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