{"id":2850,"date":"2008-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/steelers-patriots-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T05:00:00","slug":"steelers-patriots-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/11\/steelers-patriots-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Steelers-Patriots Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Pittsburgh Steelers and the New England Patriots will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Gillette Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Patriots listed as 1-point favorites versus the Steelers, while the game’s total is sitting at 40. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Ben Roethlisberger threw for 243 yards as the Steelers ran over the struggling Bengals 27-10 in Week 12. The Steelers covered the 12-point spread at home, and the 37 points made it OVER the posted total of 35. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Roethlisberger finished 17-of-30 with a touchdown, while rushing for 13 yards and a TD in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Patriots defeated Miami<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 48-28 as a 1-point favorite last week. The combined score went OVER the posted over\/under total (42.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Matt Cassel passed for 415 yards with three touchdown passes and a TD run for New England<\/st1:place>, while Randy Moss caught eight passes for 125 yards with three touchdowns in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 8-3 SU, 5-6 ATS
New England: 7-4 SU, 6-5 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> most recently:
When playing in November are 7-3
When playing on turf are 5-5
After outgaining opponent are 5-5
When playing outside the division are 5-5<\/p>\n

New England<\/st1:place> most recently:
When playing in November are 7-3
When playing on turf are 7-3
After outgaining opponent are 6-4
When playing outside the division are 7-3<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 5 of Pittsburgh’s last 6 games when playing New England
Pittsburgh is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games on the road
Pittsburgh is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games
The total has gone OVER in 10 of Pittsburgh’s last 15 games
New England is 7-1 ATS in its last 8 games when playing Pittsburgh
New England is 18-3 SU in its last 21 games at home
New England is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games when playing Pittsburgh
The total has gone OVER in 5 of New England’s last 6 games when playing Pittsburgh<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Pittsburgh<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Dallas<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, December 7
New England<\/st1:place> at Seattle<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, December 7<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Pittsburgh Steelers and the New England Patriots will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Gillette Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Patriots listed as 1-point favorites versus the Steelers, while the game’s total is sitting at 40. Ben Roethlisberger threw for 243 yards as the Steelers ran over the … Continue reading Steelers-Patriots Preview<\/span> →<\/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-2850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850","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=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}