{"id":6608,"date":"2009-11-29T23:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/11\/saints-vs-patriots-spread-before-florida-alabama-vegas-odds\/"},"modified":"2009-11-29T23:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T04:19:00","slug":"saints-vs-patriots-spread-before-florida-alabama-vegas-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/11\/saints-vs-patriots-spread-before-florida-alabama-vegas-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints vs. Patriots Spread Before Florida-Alabama Vegas Odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=Section1>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The <\/span><\/font><st1:State><st1:place>Florida<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> vs. <st1:State><st1:place>Alabama<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> odds in the SEC Championship game has the Gators down to a 4.5 point favorite at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.betus.com\/ats\/10499\/sportsbook\/\">BetUs Sportsbook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>While the nation&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/\">best football handicapper<\/a> has not yet weighed in on that game, all the focus is on ESPN Monday Night Football as the New England Patriots play at the New Orleans Saints.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Patriots vs. Saints spread has <\/span><\/font><st1:City><st1:place>New   Orleans<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> -1.5 at <a href=\"http:\/\/affiliates.commissionaccount.com\/processing\/clickthrgh.asp?btag=a_1206b_609\"><span class=SpellE>SportsBook<\/span><\/a><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span>with a total of 56.5, <span lang=EN style='mso-ansi-language:EN'><a href=\"http:\/\/sports.bodog.com\/welcome\/1861245\/\">Bodog<\/a><\/span> has the Saints at -1 and -120. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Here is the official betting preview: <\/span><\/font><st1:place>New  England<\/st1:place> is 7-3 straight up and 6-4 against the spread, covering 4-of-5. <st1:City><st1:place>New Orleans<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is 10-0 straight up but 7-3 to the number, dropping 3-of-4 against the bookmakers. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Patriots get just 4.0 yards per rush against teams normally allowing 4.2 but 7.5 yards per pass to 6.5. They allow 4.4 yards per rush to teams normally getting 4.5 and 6.0 yards per pass to 6.3. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The Saints average 4.8 yards per rush against teams normally allowing 4.4 and a mind-boggling 8.3 yards per pass against teams normally allowing 6.7. That amounts to 6.5 yards per play to 5.7. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Defensively they are allowing 4.6 to teams normally getting 4.4 and 5.8 yards per pass to 6.0. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Against the spread records: <\/span><\/font><st1:place>New  England<\/st1:place> is 37-17 on the road and 38-18 after getting more than 350 total yards previous game. The Pats are 4-11 after allowing less than 15 points their last game.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><st1:City><st1:place><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span   style='font-size:12.0pt'>New Orleans<\/span><\/font><\/st1:place><\/st1:City> is 12-3 as a favorite. The underdog has covered four straight in the series. <\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Over\/under angles: <\/span><\/font><st1:place>New  England<\/st1:place> has gone over 8-2 on field turf.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=MsoBodyText><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold; mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Top expert pick on this game<\/span><\/font><\/b>: The Center of the Handicapping Universe is 6-2 this week in the NFL (counting <st1:State><st1:place>Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> as a loser) though some went 7-1, others <st1:date Month=\"6\" Day=\"1\" Year=\"2001\">6-1-1<\/st1:date>. That&#8217;s 21-10 (or better) with NFL sides. The biggest in that span goes tonight. It&#8217;s the NFL Prime Time Game of the Year New England-New Orleans and <span class=GramE>wait<\/span> until you hear why. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/index.php?Page=Packages\">Click now to purchase<\/a> GodsTips Monday Night Football winner<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'><span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\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 Florida vs. Alabama odds in the SEC Championship game has the Gators down to a 4.5 point favorite at BetUs Sportsbook. While the nation&#8217;s best football handicapper has not yet weighed in on that game, all the focus is on ESPN Monday Night Football as the New England Patriots play at the New Orleans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/11\/saints-vs-patriots-spread-before-florida-alabama-vegas-odds\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saints vs. Patriots Spread Before Florida-Alabama Vegas Odds<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6608","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=6608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}