{"id":3036,"date":"2008-12-14T10:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/lion-colts-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-14T10:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T15:51:00","slug":"lion-colts-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/lion-colts-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Lion-Colts Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Detroit Lions and the Indianapolis Colts will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Lucas Oil Stadium. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Colts listed as 17-point favorites versus the Lions, while the game’s total is sitting at 45. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Lions lost to Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> 20-16 as a 10-point underdog last week. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (45.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Daunte Culpepper passed for 220 yards with a touchdown for Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> and Calvin Johnson had three catches for 84 yards with a TD. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Colts defeated Cincinnati<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 35-3 as a 13.5-point favorite last week. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (42). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Peyton Manning passed for 277 yards with three touchdown passes for the Colts, while Marvin Harrison caught three passes for 78 yards and a touchdown. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 13 straight games.
Indianapolis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 6 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 0-13 SU, 5-8 ATS
Indianapolis: 9-4 SU, 5-8 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Detroit most recently:
When playing in December are 2-8
When playing on turf are 1-9
After being outgained are 0-10
When playing outside the division are 1-9<\/p>\n

Indianapolis most recently:
When playing in December are 7-3
When playing on turf are 6-4
After outgaining opponent are 7-3
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 Detroit’s last 6 games
Detroit is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Detroit’s last 10 games on the road
Detroit is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games when playing Indianapolis
Indianapolis is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games
Indianapolis is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games at home
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Indianapolis’s last 6 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Indianapolis’s last 6 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to New Orleans<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, December 21
Indianapolis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Jacksonville<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Thursday, December 18<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Detroit Lions and the Indianapolis Colts will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Lucas Oil Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Colts listed as 17-point favorites versus the Lions, while the game’s total is sitting at 45. The Lions lost to Minnesota 20-16 as a 10-point underdog last week. … Continue reading Lion-Colts 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-3036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036","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=3036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}