{"id":17668,"date":"2011-09-12T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=17668"},"modified":"2011-09-13T08:36:42","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T13:36:42","slug":"afc-east-rivals-new-england-patriots-at-miami-dolphins-monday-night-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/afc-east-rivals-new-england-patriots-at-miami-dolphins-monday-night-football-17668\/","title":{"rendered":"AFC East Rivals: New England Patriots at Miami Dolphins Monday Night Football"},"content":{"rendered":"

New England Patriots at Miami Dolphins
\nMonday, 9\/12\/11, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 New England -4
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 New England -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 46
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 46
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The New England Patriots are road favorites against the Miami Dolphins tonight in South Beach<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New England is the early Super Bowl favorite and will be opening a season against the Miami Dolphins for the seventh time.\u00a0 Both teams have walked away with three wins in those previous meetings.\u00a0 It was a disappointing end for last year\u2019s AFC East division champion, as the Patriots were bounced from the playoffs by the New York Jets, which was a shocking result due to the team\u2019s 14-2 regular season record.\u00a0 Quarterback Tom Brady saw the squad drop a 28-21 contest to a team it had previously beaten 45-3 just six weeks prior.\u00a0 \u201cYou realize how touch it its to win games over the years,\u201d Brady commented.\u00a0 New England is 18-14 ATS the past two seasons.<\/p>\n

The Patriots have enjoyed tremendous success since the 2001 season against AFC East rivals, posting a 48-14 record, which is the best intra-division record of any team over that span.\u00a0 Brady has tallied a 12-6 mark when facing the Dolphins in his career, including wins in both meetings last year.\u00a0 New England captured a resounding 41-14 road win on Monday Night Football in South Beach despite being out-gained by 135 yards.\u00a0 Head coach Bill Belichick has tallied a 13-9 straight-up record in this series.<\/p>\n

Miami definitely has a new look this season after finishing the 2010 season with a 7-9 record.\u00a0 The Dolphins are entirely different in the backfield, with the departures of Ronnie Brown and Ricky Williams being replaced by free agent Reggie Busch and second-round draft pick Daniel Thomas.\u00a0 Quarterback Chad Henne still has quality wideouts in Davone Bess and Brandon Marshall, as the team will be looking to snap a string of five consecutive losses in home openers.\u00a0 Miami is 12-8 ATS as an underdog.<\/p>\n

The Dolphins defense definitely has some play makers that will give Brady a test in this contest, as cornerbacks Vontae Davis and Sean Smith feel they are the best duo in the National Football League.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s a dangerous group,\u201d Brady stated leading up to Monday.\u00a0 \u201cThey\u2019re experienced in the secondary.\u201d\u00a0 It\u2019s still important to point out that the squad caused just 19 turnovers in 2010, which is a huge disparity when being compared to the 38 miscues the Patriots\u2019 defense created.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is going to have to score points, which was hard to come by last year in finishing 30th in the league by scoring just 17.1 points a contest.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Dolphins due to their 11-3 ATS mark as an underdog, while the Patriots are 2-5 ATS in September.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning 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":"

New England Patriots at Miami Dolphins Monday, 9\/12\/11, 7:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 New England -4 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 New England -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 46 Current Total:\u00a0 46 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker New England is the early Super Bowl favorite and will be opening a season against the Miami Dolphins for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[540,323,320,125,398],"class_list":["post-17668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-afc-east","tag-chad-henne","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-tom-brady"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17668","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=17668"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17675,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17668\/revisions\/17675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}