{"id":10367,"date":"2010-11-06T22:45:11","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T03:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10367"},"modified":"2010-11-06T22:45:11","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T03:45:11","slug":"pro-football-picks-new-york-giants-at-seattle-seahawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/pro-football-picks-new-york-giants-at-seattle-seahawks-10367\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Football Picks: New York Giants at Seattle Seahawks"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Giants at Seattle Seahawks
\nSunday, 11\/7\/2010, 4:05 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FOX
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 New York -5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 New York -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 40.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 40.5
\nCurrent Moneyline: \u00a0 New York -320 \/ Seattle +270<\/strong><\/p>\n

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New York Giants QB Eli Manning must protect the football in order to cover a seven-point spread on the road at Seattle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New York has won four straight to take over the top spot in the NFC East and defeated Dallas 41-35 in its last game before enjoying a bye week.\u00a0 The Giants haven\u2019t been very successful when playing with rest, going 6-15 the following week, including an even 3-3 under head coach Tom Coughlin.\u00a0 \u201cWell, that\u2019s always the challenge, not just to come back where you were, but to come back and escalate the quality of your performance,\u201d said Coughlin.\u00a0 Despite facing a team without its starting quarterback, the squad knows that it must deal with the sound of Qwest Field.\u00a0 Since 2005, opposing teams have averaged almost three false starts a game at the venue.\u00a0 When New York played there in 2005, the Giants were flagged for 10 false start penalties.\u00a0 The team is 10-5 ATS after two or more consecutive wins and is listed as a solid road favorite on the NFL lines page.<\/p>\n

The Giants haven\u2019t won in Seattle since 1981, losing games there in 1986, 1995, 2005 and 2006, with the first two in the Kingdome, the latter at Qwest.\u00a0 New York knows its in for a fight against a team that currently leads the NFC West with a 4-3 record.\u00a0 \u201cThis team leads their division, they have a tremendous amount at stake,\u201d Coughlin commented.\u00a0 \u201cThey play exception football at home.\u201d\u00a0 The squad is 3-2 against starting quarterbacks making their first start since 1990, facing Charlie Whitehurst, who completed 46 passes for 635 yards during the preseason.\u00a0 One other concern in their preparation is special teams and stopping Leon Washington, who leads the NFL with a 33.7-yard kickoff return average.<\/p>\n

Seattle will need every bit of its home-field advantage to remain competitive in this contest after dropping a 33-3 contest in Oakland last week.\u00a0 The Seahawks lost five starters to injury last week, including signal-caller Matt Hasselbeck, who is out after suffering a concussion.\u00a0 \u201cHe needs another week to get right,\u201d said head coach Pete Carroll.\u00a0 \u201cHe\u2019s gone through all the batter of testing and we need to do this to protect him.\u201d\u00a0 If the game remains close, kicker Olindo Mare will need to bounce back from missing two field goals for the first time in over a year.\u00a0 He came into last week\u2019s contest with a team record 30 straight field goals made.\u00a0 Seattle is 9-17 ATS as an underdog and 0-4 ATS versus NFC East opponents.<\/p>\n

The Seahawks will need a top performance from its defense and force turnovers to be in position to pull off the upset in the fourth quarter.\u00a0 Seattle has a plus-4 turnover ration at home and has relied on amazing special teams\u2019 play to compile a 3-0 record at home.\u00a0 New York quarterback Eli Manning will give them some opportunities to make a big play, as he\u2019s thrown 11 interceptions.\u00a0 Free safety Earl Thomas will likely need to make those plays and is an early candidate for defensive rookie of the year with four interceptions.<\/p>\n

Bettors will want to pound the Giants due to their 12-4 ATS mark as a road favorite, while the Seahawks are 4-0 ATS as a home underdog.<\/p>\n

Get into the action with the NFL handicappers at Maddux Sports and enjoy a winning weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York Giants at Seattle Seahawks Sunday, 11\/7\/2010, 4:05 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FOX Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 New York -5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 New York -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 40.5 Current Total:\u00a0 40.5 Current Moneyline: \u00a0 New York -320 \/ Seattle +270 New York has won four straight to take over the top spot in the NFC […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":6377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[3726,598,503,401,1287,3572,417,553],"class_list":["post-10367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-charlie-whitehurst","tag-eli-manning","tag-matt-hasselbeck","tag-new-york-giants","tag-pete-carroll","tag-qwest-field","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-tom-coughlin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10368,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367\/revisions\/10368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}