{"id":2611,"date":"2008-11-09T08:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-09T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/saints-falcons-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-11-09T08:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-09T13:03:00","slug":"saints-falcons-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/saints-falcons-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints-Falcons 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 New Orleans Saints and the Atlanta Falcons will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at Georgia Dome. <?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 Falcons listed as 1-point favorites versus the Saints, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 50. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Saints defeated <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:City><st1:place>San Diego<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 37-32 as a 3-point favorite in <st1:City><st1:place>London<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> in Week 8. The combined score went OVER the posted over\/under total (45.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Drew Brees passed for 339 yards with three touchdowns for <st1:City><st1:place>New Orleans<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while Lance Moore caught six passes for 90 yards with a touchdown in the win. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Falcons defeated <st1:City><st1:place>Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 24-0 as a 3-point favorite in Week 9. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (41.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Matt Ryan passed for 220 yards with a pair of touchdown passes for <st1:City><st1:place>Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while Michael Jenkins caught two passes for 64 yards with two touchdowns. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>New Orleans<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 4-4 SU, 5-3 ATS <br \/>Atlanta: 5-3 SU, 5-3 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">New Orleans most recently:<br \/>When playing in November are 5-5<br \/>When playing on turf are 6-4<br \/>After being outgained are 5-5<br \/>When playing within the division are 5-5<\/p>\n<p>Atlanta most recently:<br \/>When playing in November are 4-6<br \/>When playing on turf are 5-5<br \/>After outgaining opponent are 3-7<br \/>When playing within the division are 2-8<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 OVER in 4 of New Orleans&#8217;s last 5 games on the road<br \/>New Orleans is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games when playing Atlanta<br \/>New Orleans is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games when playing on the road against Atlanta<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 10 of New Orleans&#8217;s last 13 games <br \/>The total has gone OVER in 6 of Atlanta&#8217;s last 7 games at home<br \/>Atlanta is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games at home<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Atlanta&#8217;s last 5 games <br \/>Atlanta is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games at home<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>New Orleans<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at <st1:City><st1:place>Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, November 16<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to <st1:City><st1:place>Denver<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, November 16<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<div>&nbsp;<\/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 New Orleans Saints and the Atlanta Falcons will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at Georgia Dome. Oddsmakers currently have the Falcons listed as 1-point favorites versus the Saints, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 50. The Saints defeated San Diego 37-32 as a 3-point favorite &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/saints-falcons-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saints-Falcons 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-2611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611","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=2611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}