{"id":3096,"date":"2008-12-20T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-21T03:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/saints-lions-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-20T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-21T03:08:00","slug":"saints-lions-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/saints-lions-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints-Lions Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The New Orleans Saints and the Detroit Lions will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at Ford Field. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Saints listed as 7-point favorites versus the Lions, while the game’s total is sitting at 50. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Saints forced overtime against the Bears in Week 15, but fell 27-24 as 3-point underdogs. The 51 points made it OVER the posted total of 46. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Pierre Thomas ran for 87 yards and a TD, while catching seven passes with a touchdown in the loss. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Lions lost to Indianapolis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 31-21 as a 17-point underdog last week. The combined score went OVER the posted over\/under total (45). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Dan Orlovsky threw for 233 yards with a touchdown for Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> and Calvin Johnson caught nine passes for 110 yards and a touchdown. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 14 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
New Orleans<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 7-7 SU, 9-4-1<\/st1:date> ATS
Detroit: 0-14 SU, 6-8 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
New Orleans most recently:
When playing in December are 4-6
When playing on turf are 7-3
After outgaining opponent are 6-4
When playing outside the division are 5-5<\/p>\n

Detroit most recently:
When playing in December are 2-8
When playing on turf are 0-10
After being outgained are 0-10
When playing outside the division are 1-9<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
New Orleans is 4-0-1 ATS in its last 5 games
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of New Orleans’s last 9 games when playing Detroit
The total has gone OVER in 14 of New Orleans’s last 19 games
The total has gone OVER in 6 of New Orleans’s last 9 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 6 of Detroit’s last 7 games
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Detroit’s last 9 games when playing New Orleans
Detroit is 7-15 ATS in its last 22 games
Detroit is 1-7 ATS in its last 8 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
New Orleans<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Carolina<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, December 28
Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at Green Bay<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, December 28<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The New Orleans Saints and the Detroit Lions will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at Ford Field. Oddsmakers currently have the Saints listed as 7-point favorites versus the Lions, while the game’s total is sitting at 50. The Saints forced overtime against the Bears in Week 15, … Continue reading Saints-Lions 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-3096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096","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=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}