{"id":3157,"date":"2008-12-28T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T17:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/rams-falcons-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-28T12:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T17:35:00","slug":"rams-falcons-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/rams-falcons-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams-Falcons Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The St. Louis Rams and the Atlanta Falcons will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at Georgia Dome. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Falcons listed as 14-point favorites versus the Rams, while the game’s total is sitting at 44\u00bd. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Rams lost to San Francisco<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 17-16 as a 3.5-point underdog last week. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (42). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Marc Bulger threw for 227 yards with a touchdown and an interception for St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while Steve Jackson rushed for 108 yards. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Falcons defeated Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> 24-17 as a 3-point underdog last week. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (43.5). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Matt Ryan passed for 134 yards with a touchdown for Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while Michael Turner rushed for 70 yards and a touchdown on 19 carries. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 9 straight games.
Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has won 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
St. Louis<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 2-13 SU, 5-10 ATS
Atlanta: 10-5 SU, 9-6 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
St. Louis most recently:
When playing in December are 3-7
When playing on turf are 1-9
After outgaining opponent are 4-6
When playing outside the division are 2-8<\/p>\n

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

A few trends to consider:
The total has gone OVER in 7 of St. Louis’s last 8 games when playing on the road against Atlanta
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of St. Louis’s last 5 games
St. Louis is 8-2 SU in its last 10 games when playing Atlanta
The total has gone OVER in 12 of St. Louis’s last 16 games when playing Atlanta
Atlanta is 7-1 SU in its last 8 games at home
The total has gone OVER in 7 of Atlanta’s last 8 games when playing at home against St. Louis
Atlanta is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games
Atlanta is 6-2 ATS in its last 8 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The St. Louis Rams and the Atlanta Falcons will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at Georgia Dome. Oddsmakers currently have the Falcons listed as 14-point favorites versus the Rams, while the game’s total is sitting at 44\u00bd. The Rams lost to San Francisco 17-16 as a 3.5-point … Continue reading Rams-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-3157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157","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=3157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}