{"id":17276,"date":"2011-08-25T20:40:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T01:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=17276"},"modified":"2011-08-25T20:40:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-26T01:40:35","slug":"2011-nfl-predictions-st-louis-rams-at-kansas-city-chiefs-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/2011-nfl-predictions-st-louis-rams-at-kansas-city-chiefs-betting-preview-17276\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 NFL Predictions: St. Louis Rams at Kansas City Chiefs Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

St. Louis Rams at Kansas City Chiefs
\nFriday, 8\/26\/11, 8:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 St. Louis PK
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 St. Louis -1.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 35
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 35
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Kansas City Chiefs head coach Todd Haley is 0-10 ATS during preseason action<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

St. Louis heads out on the road for the first time during the 2011 preseason after picking up consecutive wins over the Indianapolis Colts (33-10) and Tennessee Titans (17-16).\u00a0 Expectations were certainly high for the team after posting a 7-9 record last season behind rookie quarterback Sam Bradford.\u00a0 \u201cThe believe and the expectation from everyone in this building is that we\u2019re going to win the Super Bowl,\u201d Bradford commented.\u00a0 \u201cYou have no idea how ticked off I was just to have our season end without the playoffs.\u201d\u00a0 Many around the league expect the franchise to take the next step, especially with the addition of offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels.\u00a0 St. Louis is 4-0 ATS on the road during preseason action.<\/p>\n

The Rams main focus after last week\u2019s win over the Titans was tightening up a rush defense that allowed 198 yards.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is anxiously waiting to see if wide receiver Donnie Avery will be ready for the season opener, as he returned to practice on Aug. 17 after rehabbing from knee surgery.\u00a0 He scored on a 19-yard reception last week, but still suffers from occasional pain and soreness.\u00a0 The running game was unable to get on track in Week 2, rushing for 44 yards on 21 attempts, which was disappointing due to the 169 yards it gained versus the Colts in the preseason opener.<\/p>\n

Kansas City continues to fail miserably under head coach Todd Haley against-the-spread, posting a 0-10 mark in his two years on the sidelines.\u00a0 The Chiefs have been outscored by 43 points in their two losses to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (25-0) and Baltimore Ravens (31-13).\u00a0 Haley will likely play his starters a little longer in this contest due to the nature of this rivalry and the fact they\u2019ve had plenty of time to learn the playbook.\u00a0 \u201cThis is a home game for us, and that\u2019s important for our team,\u201d he commented.\u00a0 \u201cOur home field advantage, our ability to win games at home is very important to our overall success.\u00a0 Kansas City is 12-23 ATS in its last 35 preseason home games.<\/p>\n

The Chiefs\u2019 defense was starting to make some strides during the offseason under coordinator Romeo Crennel, but the unit suffered a major injury this week in camp.\u00a0 Former San Diego Chargers linebacker Brandon Siler is expected to miss the 2011 season with a torn Achilles.\u00a0 He was brought over to add depth to the position and was also a standout special teams player.\u00a0 On the other side of the ball, Tyler Palko seems to be winning out to backup quarterback Matt Cassel, connecting on 8 of 13 passes for 95 yards last week.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Chiefs due to the line movement that has occurred in this contest, while the Rams haven\u2019t been a road favorite of three points or less in a preseason game the last three years.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on making money this year and let the NFL handicappers at Maddux Sports go to work for you.\u00a0 Get a long-term package today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

St. Louis Rams at Kansas City Chiefs Friday, 8\/26\/11, 8:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 St. Louis PK Current Betting Line:\u00a0 St. Louis -1.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 35 Current Total:\u00a0 35 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker St. Louis heads out on the road for the first time during the 2011 preseason after picking up consecutive wins over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[5349,303,541,5350,623,863,665],"class_list":["post-17276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-donnie-avery","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-matt-cassel","tag-romeo-crennel","tag-sam-bradford","tag-st-louis-rams","tag-todd-haley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17276","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=17276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17277,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17276\/revisions\/17277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}