{"id":2608,"date":"2008-11-09T07:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/bills-patriots-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-11-09T07:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T12:57:00","slug":"bills-patriots-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/bills-patriots-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills-Patriots Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Buffalo Bills and the New England Patriots will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at Gillette Stadium. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Oddsmakers currently have the Patriots listed as 4-point favorites versus the Bills, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 41\u00bd. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Bills lost to the Jets 26-17 as a 5-point favorite on Sunday. The combined score caused this game to be a PUSH on the posted over\/under total (43). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Trent Edwards threw for 289 yards with a touchdown and two interceptions for the Bills and Derek Fine caught four passes for 41 yards and a touchdown. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Patriots lost to <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:City><st1:place>Indianapolis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 18-15 as a 7-point underdog in Week 9. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (44.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Matt Cassel threw for 204 yards with an interception for <st1:place>New England<\/st1:place>, while BenJarvus Green-Ellis rushed for 57 yards and a touchdown on 15 carries. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Buffalo<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 2 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Buffalo<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 5-3 SU, 4-4 ATS <br \/>New England: 5-3 SU, 4-4 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Buffalo most recently:<br \/>When playing in November are 5-5<br \/>When playing on turf are 7-3<br \/>After being outgained are 4-6<br \/>When playing within the division are 6-4<\/p>\n<p>New England most recently:<br \/>When playing in November are 6-4<br \/>When playing on turf are 8-2<br \/>After outgaining opponent are 7-3<br \/>When playing within the division are 8-2<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Buffalo&#8217;s last 9 games when playing on the road against New England<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 14 of Buffalo&#8217;s last 18 games when playing New England<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Buffalo&#8217;s last 7 games on the road<br \/>Buffalo is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games on the road<br \/>New England is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Buffalo<br \/>New England is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Buffalo<br \/>New England is 17-2 SU in its last 19 games at home<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 8 of New England&#8217;s last 9 games when playing at home against Buffalo<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Buffalo<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to <st1:City><st1:place>Cleveland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Monday, November 17<br \/><st1:place>New England<\/st1:place> home to NY Jets, Thursday, November 13<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buffalo Bills and the New England Patriots will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at Gillette Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Patriots listed as 4-point favorites versus the Bills, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 41\u00bd. The Bills lost to the Jets 26-17 as a 5-point &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/bills-patriots-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bills-Patriots Preview<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}