{"id":5544,"date":"2009-09-12T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T22:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/nfl-football-odds-lions-vs-saints\/"},"modified":"2009-09-12T17:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T22:09:00","slug":"nfl-football-odds-lions-vs-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/nfl-football-odds-lions-vs-saints\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Football Odds: Lions vs Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Detroit Lions and the New Orleans Saints will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Louisiana Superdome. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Oddsmakers currently have the Saints listed as 13\u00bd-point favorites versus the Lions, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 49. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Lions concluded the preseason with a 17-6 victory over the Bills last time out, as 3-point underdogs. The 23 points went UNDER the posted total of 34. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Saints were defeated 10-7 by the Dolphins in their final preseason game last time out, as 2.5-point favorites. The teams played UNDER the posted total of 36.5. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">2009 team records:<br \/><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:City><st1:place>Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 0-16 SU, 7-9 ATS <br \/>New Orleans: 8-8 SU, <st1:date Month=\"10\" Day=\"5\" Year=\"2001\">10-5-1<\/st1:date> ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Detroit most recently:<br \/>When playing in September are 3-7<br \/>When playing on turf are 0-10<br \/>After being outgained are 0-10<br \/>When playing outside the division are 0-10<\/p>\n<p>New Orleans most recently:<br \/>When playing in September are 5-5<br \/>When playing on turf are 6-4<br \/>After being outgained are 4-6<br \/>When playing outside the division are 6-4<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>Detroit is 5-0 ATS in its last 5 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 5 of Detroit&#8217;s last 5 games on the road<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 8 of Detroit&#8217;s last 10 games when playing New Orleans<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Detroit&#8217;s last 5 games when playing on the road against New Orleans<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 11 of New Orleans&#8217;s last 13 games at home<br \/>New Orleans is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games at home<br \/>New Orleans is 4-1 ATS in its last 5 games at home<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 8 of New Orleans&#8217;s last 10 games when playing Detroit<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Detroit<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to <st1:State><st1:place>Minnesota<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Sunday, September 20<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>New Orleans<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at <st1:City><st1:place>Philadelphia<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, September 20<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><o:p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=3>&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Detroit Lions and the New Orleans Saints will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at Louisiana Superdome. Oddsmakers currently have the Saints listed as 13\u00bd-point favorites versus the Lions, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 49. The Lions concluded the preseason with a 17-6 victory over the Bills &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/nfl-football-odds-lions-vs-saints\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NFL Football Odds: Lions vs Saints<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-5544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544","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=5544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}