{"id":3039,"date":"2008-12-14T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T16:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/buccaneers-falcons-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-14T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T16:51:00","slug":"buccaneers-falcons-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/buccaneers-falcons-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Buccaneers-Falcons Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Atlanta Falcons will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Georgia Dome. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Falcons listed as 4-point favorites versus the Buccaneers, while the game’s total is sitting at 44. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Buccaneers got two touchdown strikes from Jeff Garcia on Monday night in their 38-23 loss to the Panthers. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Panthers managed to cover the 3-point spread at home in that contest, while the combined score went OVER the night’s posted total (40.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Falcons lost to New Orleans<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 29-25 as a 3-point underdog last week. The combined score went OVER the posted over\/under total (51.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Matt Ryan threw for 315 yards with a touchdown and an interception as well as a TD run for Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while Michal Turner rushed for 61 yards and a TD on 18 carries. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 9-4 SU, 7-6 ATS
Atlanta: 8-5 SU, 8-5 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Tampa Bay most recently:
When playing in December are 3-7
When playing on turf are 3-7
After being outgained are 7-3
When playing within the division are 7-3<\/p>\n

Atlanta most recently:
When playing in December are 2-8
When playing on turf are 6-4
When playing within the division are 3-7
Before playing Minnesota are 3-7<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 9 of Tampa Bay’s last 11 games on the road
Tampa Bay is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games
Tampa Bay is 6-2 SU in its last 8 games when playing Atlanta
Tampa Bay is 6-2 ATS in its last 8 games when playing on the road against Atlanta
Atlanta is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games at home
Atlanta is 6-1 ATS in its last 7 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Atlanta’s last 10 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 8 of Atlanta’s last 11 games when playing at home against Tampa Bay<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
Tampa<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> Bay home to San Diego, Sunday, December 21
Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Sunday, December 21<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Atlanta Falcons will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Georgia Dome. Oddsmakers currently have the Falcons listed as 4-point favorites versus the Buccaneers, while the game’s total is sitting at 44. The Buccaneers got two touchdown strikes from Jeff Garcia on Monday night … Continue reading Buccaneers-Falcons 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-3039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039","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=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}