{"id":19028,"date":"2011-10-30T20:29:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T01:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=19028"},"modified":"2011-10-30T20:29:46","modified_gmt":"2011-10-31T01:29:46","slug":"nfl-predictions-week-8-san-diego-chargers-vs-kansas-city-chiefs-monday-night-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-predictions-week-8-san-diego-chargers-vs-kansas-city-chiefs-monday-night-football-19028\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Predictions Week 8: San Diego Chargers vs. Kansas City Chiefs, Monday Night Football"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Diego Chargers at Kansas City Chiefs
\nSunday, 10\/31\/11, 8:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 San Diego -3.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 San Diego -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 44
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 44.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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San Diego Chargers QB Philip Rivers has thrown nine interceptions already this season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

San Diego came off its bye week and dropped a 27-21 contest to the New York Jets, while going over the total for the second consecutive week.\u00a0 \u201cWe just need to play better and put a complete game together,\u201d commented Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers.\u00a0 \u201cWe still haven\u2019t put one together and we\u2019re 4-2.\u201d\u00a0 The Chargers will be closing out their season series against the Chiefs, tallying a 20-17 win as 14.5-point home favorites in Week 3.\u00a0 All focus in practice this week has been avoiding back-to-back losses for the first time in more than a year.\u00a0 San Diego is 6-8 ATS versus division opponents.<\/p>\n

The Chargers are well aware of what happened versus the Chiefs last year on Monday Night Football, opening up the season with a 21-14 loss despite winning the statistical battle by a 389-197 margin.\u00a0 San Diego needs a big game from quarterback Philip Rivers, who has completed 65 percent of his passes for 1,715 yards, but has also thrown for just seven touchdowns and nine interceptions.\u00a0 The team should come in with confidence knowing its won seven of the last eight in this series.<\/p>\n

Kansas City has rebounded from starting the season with three losses, winning three games in a row coming into this AFC West matchup.\u00a0 The Chiefs are coming off an impressive 28-0 win over the Oakland Raiders as 3.5-point road underdogs.\u00a0 It was a surprising result when considering that the first two wins came against Minnesota and Indianapolis, two teams that were down and out early on.\u00a0 Kansas City is 5-9 ATS versus division opponents, but 7-4 ATS in October.<\/p>\n

The Chiefs certainly know what\u2019s at stake with a victory, claiming at least a share of the division lead.\u00a0 Kansas City has won just once at home against San Diego since the 2006 campaign.\u00a0 The main focus this week in practice has been to sustain drives, as the team lost the time-of-possession battle by more than nine minutes, while it averaged just 4.8 yards per play.\u00a0 There\u2019s a good chance that the game will be decided on the ground, as the Chargers are giving up an average of 121.7 rushing yards per game, while the Chiefs are averaging 129.3 per game.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Chargers due to their 6-2 ATS mark as a road favorite of a field goal or less, while the Chiefs are 0-5 ATS in their last five home games versus a team with a winning road record.<\/p>\n

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San Diego Chargers at Kansas City Chiefs Sunday, 10\/31\/11, 8:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 San Diego -3.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 San Diego -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 44 Current Total:\u00a0 44.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker San Diego came off its bye week and dropped a 27-21 contest to the New York Jets, while going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[303,441,1035,298],"class_list":["post-19028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-monday-night-football","tag-philip-rivers","tag-san-diego-chargers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19028","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=19028"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19030,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19028\/revisions\/19030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}