{"id":17091,"date":"2011-08-12T23:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=17091"},"modified":"2011-08-12T18:22:20","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T23:22:20","slug":"pro-football-betting-green-bay-packers-at-cleveland-browns-saturday-night-handicapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/pro-football-betting-green-bay-packers-at-cleveland-browns-saturday-night-handicapping-17091\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Football Betting: Green Bay Packers at Cleveland Browns Saturday Night Handicapping"},"content":{"rendered":"

Green Bay Packers at Cleveland Browns
\nSaturday, 8\/13\/11, 7:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Cleveland PK
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Cleveland -2
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 36.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 35
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers is now among the NFL's elite players after winning the Super Bowl last season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Green Bay has made its trip to the White House to celebrate its Super Bowl victory from a year ago and now will kick off defense of its title in Cleveland Saturday night.\u00a0 The Packers will be opening a season away from Lambeau Field for the first time since the 2007 season.\u00a0 Tonight will mark the 23rd preseason meeting in the all-time series, as the Packers currently trail 12-10, including a 27-24 loss in the exhibition opener a year ago.\u00a0 Head coach Mike McCarthy is in his sixth year and will have 21 of 22 starters returning from the squad that lifted the Lombardi Trophy in February after defeating the Pittsburgh Steelers.\u00a0 Green Bay has tallied a 6-2 ATS mark as a road underdog the past two years.<\/p>\n

The Packers may enter this game a bit fatigued after visiting three airports on Friday and the starters are expected to play just a few series.\u00a0 McCarthy has placed a priority in year\u2019s past in maintaining the health of his football team before the regular season.\u00a0 Quarterback Aaron Rodgers will be one of those players that will see limited action and has emerged as one of the top players in the league at the position.\u00a0 His career passer rating of 98.4 ranks No. 1 in league history.\u00a0 Offensively, the team will be excited to see running back Ryan Grant return to the huddle, missing almost all of 2010 with a ankle injury suffered in Week 1.<\/p>\n

Cleveland starts anew with first-year head coach Pat Shurmur and starters anticipate playing a full quarter at Browns Stadium to open the preseason.\u00a0 The Browns will send out Colt McCoy as the team\u2019s starter, as he has come a long way from being third on the depth chart just a year ago at this time.\u00a0 Quarterback has been an unstable position for the franchise, as he will be the fifth different player to assume this role to open the exhibition season in five consecutive years.\u00a0 On the other side of the ball, Cleveland will be undergoing major changes in replacing five starters from a year ago.\u00a0 The Browns failed in both opportunities as home favorites in 2010.<\/p>\n

The Browns give McCoy the opportunity to run the offense due to being the third rookie in franchise history to lead the team in passing yards.\u00a0 One of those numbers happens to be Bernie Kosar, which fans hope he follows in terms of bringing success back to Cleveland.\u00a0 Running back Peyton Hillis is no secret around the league after a banner season, running for 1,177 yards and 11 touchdowns.\u00a0 He was also a major weapon out of the backfield in the passing game, catching more than 50 passes.<\/p>\n

Bettors may elect to back the Browns due to the Packers traveling through three airports on their way to Cleveland on Friday.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning football season and let the NFL handicappers at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Green Bay Packers at Cleveland Browns Saturday, 8\/13\/11, 7:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Cleveland PK Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Cleveland -2 Opening Total:\u00a0 36.5 Current Total:\u00a0 35 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Green Bay has made its trip to the White House to celebrate its Super Bowl victory from a year ago and now will kick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[416,5272,360,568,1119,3329],"class_list":["post-17091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-aaron-rodgers","tag-browns-stadium","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-colt-mccoy","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-peyton-hillis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17091","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=17091"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17093,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17091\/revisions\/17093"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}