{"id":17094,"date":"2011-08-12T19:50:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T00:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=17094"},"modified":"2011-08-12T19:49:37","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T00:49:37","slug":"free-nfl-picks-minnesota-vikings-at-tennessee-titans-preseason-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/free-nfl-picks-minnesota-vikings-at-tennessee-titans-preseason-opener-17094\/","title":{"rendered":"Free NFL Picks: Minnesota Vikings at Tennessee Titans Preseason Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minnesota Vikings at Tennessee Titans
\nSaturday, 8\/13\/11, 8:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Tennessee -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Tennessee -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 34
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 33
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Titans<\/a>
Tennessee Titans RB Chris Johnson will be MIA Saturday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Minnesota enters the first full year under the direction of head coach Leslie Frazier, as he was interim coach for the final six games of the 2010 campaign after the firing of Brad Childress.\u00a0 The Vikings have been a very successful team during preseason action as a franchise, posting a 136-88-3 all-time mark in 227 games.\u00a0 Part of that tremendous record has been helped by facing tonight\u2019s opponent, as the team is 4-0 during exhibition action against Tennessee.\u00a0 Frazier will be the lead man on the sidelines for the first time in such a contest and will have a roster of 38 new faces to monitor before opening the regular season on Sept. 11 in San Diego<\/p>\n

The Vikings ranked 29th last season in scoring offense and have said goodbye to veteran Brett Favre as quarterback and brought in a new face, but an experienced one in Donovan McNabb.\u00a0 The former Syracuse star will be playing for his third team in 13 years in the league.\u00a0 He signed a one-year deal with a base salary of $5.05 million.\u00a0 Playing time will be limited for the starting unit tonight, as the coaching staff has announced getting them a series or two of work.<\/p>\n

Tennessee has plenty of work to do coming into a new year, as first-year head coach Mike Munchak comes in to replace Jeff Fisher, who was the longest tenured coach in the NFL at the time.\u00a0 The Titans finished the 2010 season with an identical 6-10 record of their opponent tonight, but just three years removed from a spectacular 2008 campaign.\u00a0 New faces behind center is also a theme in camp for this squad, as the signing of former Seattle quarterback Matt Hasselbeck and draft pick Jake Locker has the offense looking unfamiliar to fans.\u00a0 Tennessee finished last year with an even 8-8 ATS mark.<\/p>\n

The Titans have gone a similar route before in bringing in a veteran quarterback to tutor an up-and-coming player, as Kerry Collins and Vince Young endured the same type of situation.\u00a0 All of the changes may prove to be meaningless if star running back Chris Johnson continues to hold out, as he has led the NFL in rushing yards since bursting on the scene during the 2008 season.\u00a0 It\u2019s expected that he\u2019ll be in uniform when the team opens the regular season and he needs 1,402 yards to become the fourth player in NFL history to reach the 6,000-yard career rushing mark in his first four seasons.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Vikings due to their preseason exploits, while word out of Titans camp is both quarterbacks are struggling.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on an incredible money-making opportunity and let the NFL handicappers at Maddux Sports go to work for you.\u00a0 It\u2019s a deal you can\u2019t afford to not be a part of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Minnesota Vikings at Tennessee Titans Saturday, 8\/13\/11, 8:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Tennessee -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Tennessee -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 34 Current Total:\u00a0 33 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Minnesota enters the first full year under the direction of head coach Leslie Frazier, as he was interim coach for the final six games of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[1065,620,5273,503,5195,73,301],"class_list":["post-17094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-chris-johnson","tag-donovan-mcnabb","tag-leslie-frazier","tag-matt-hasselbeck","tag-mike-munchak","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-tennessee-titans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17094","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=17094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17095,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17094\/revisions\/17095"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}