{"id":3154,"date":"2008-12-28T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T16:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/patriots-bills-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-28T11:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T16:39:00","slug":"patriots-bills-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/patriots-bills-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots-Bills Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The fans at Ralph Wilson Stadium will be treated to a game between the New England Patriots and the Buffalo Bills when they take their seats on Sunday. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Patriots listed as 6-point favorites versus the Bills, while the game’s total is sitting at 35. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Patriots defeated Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> 47-7 as an 8-point favorite last week. The combined score went OVER the posted over\/under total (41). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Matt Cassel passed for 345 yards with three touchdowns for New England<\/st1:place> and Randy Moss caught two passes for 87 yards with a touchdown in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Bills defeated Denver<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 30-23 as a 6.5-point underdog last week. The combined score went OVER the posted over\/under total (46.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Trent Edwards passed for 193 yards with a touchdown for the Bills, while Fred Jackson rushed for 43 yards and a touchdowns on 10 carries in the win. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
New England<\/st1:place> has won 3 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
New England<\/st1:place>: 10-5 SU, 8-7 ATS
Buffalo: 7-8 SU, 7-8 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
New England<\/st1:place> most recently:
When playing in December are 10-0
When playing on turf are 6-4
After outgaining opponent are 6-4
When playing within the division are 8-2<\/p>\n

Buffalo<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> most recently:
When playing in December are 3-7
When playing on turf are 4-6
After being outgained are 3-7
When playing within the division are 4-6<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 5 of New England’s last 5 games
New England is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Buffalo
New England is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games when playing on the road against Buffalo
New England is 13-2 SU in its last 15 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 15 of Buffalo’s last 19 games when playing New England
The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Buffalo’s last 10 games when playing at home against New England
Buffalo is 2-7 SU in its last 9 games
Buffalo is 1-4 SU in its last 5 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The fans at Ralph Wilson Stadium will be treated to a game between the New England Patriots and the Buffalo Bills when they take their seats on Sunday. Oddsmakers currently have the Patriots listed as 6-point favorites versus the Bills, while the game’s total is sitting at 35. The Patriots defeated Arizona 47-7 as an … Continue reading Patriots-Bills 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-3154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154","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=3154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}