{"id":19361,"date":"2011-11-12T17:35:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-12T22:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=19361"},"modified":"2011-11-12T17:35:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-12T22:35:45","slug":"nfl-picks-week-10-st-louis-rams-vs-cleveland-browns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-picks-week-10-st-louis-rams-vs-cleveland-browns-19361\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Picks Week 10: St. Louis Rams vs. Cleveland Browns"},"content":{"rendered":"

St. Louis Rams at Cleveland Browns
\nSunday, 11\/13\/11, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FOX
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Cleveland -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Cleveland -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 37
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 37
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Cleveland Browns are field-goal favorites Sunday against the St. Louis Rams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

St. Louis missed out on an opportunity to put together a winning streak after dropping its first seven games of the 2011 campaign, but ultimately was handed a 19-13 loss by the Arizona Cardinals last week as 2.5-point road underdogs.\u00a0 The Rams defense has been playing much better the past two games, limiting opponents to under 300 yards of offense, including a season-low 262 against the Cardinals.\u00a0 St. Louis is 1-7 ATS on the year and the \u2018under\u2019 is 4-3 this season.<\/p>\n

The Rams will need to turn to running back Steven Jackson to win this game on the ground, rushing for 130 and 159 yards in the past two games.\u00a0 St. Louis must stay consistent in play calling in try to exploit a Cleveland stop unit that ranks 30th against the run.\u00a0 Second-year quarterback Sam Bradford has been banged up and not as sharp this year due to injuries.\u00a0 \u201cI missed some throws that I normally would make,\u201d commented Bradford after last week\u2019s loss.\u00a0 \u201cThat\u2019s what was frustrating to me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cleveland will also look to pound the rock in facing a St. Louis defense that ranks last in giving up 153.6 rushing yards per game, but star running back Peyton Hillis will be missing a fourth game with a hamstring injury.\u00a0 The Browns have their own second-year quarterback, Colt McCoy, who has tailed off since averaging nearly 240 passing yards in the first five games.\u00a0 He still comes in completing 177 of 308 attempts for 1,764 yards and 10 touchdowns against six interceptions.\u00a0 Cleveland is 0-3 ATS at home this year and the \u2018over\u2019 is 11-9 in the last two-plus seasons in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Browns have had all kinds of trouble in the first and third quarters this year, getting outscored by a 90-15 margin, failing to score a touchdown in either frame.\u00a0 Cleveland will be meeting St. Louis for the 19th time during the regular season, with the series tied at nine games apiece.\u00a0 First-year head coach Pat Shurmur will likely try to change things up to get the offense going, as the team called a running play on this first play 11 times in 12 series last week in a 30-12 loss to the Houston Texans as 10.5-point road underdogs.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Browns due to their 9-6 ATS mark following two or more losses, while the Rams are 1-8 ATS as an underdog.<\/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":"

St. Louis Rams at Cleveland Browns Sunday, 11\/13\/11, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FOX Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Cleveland -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Cleveland -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 37 Current Total:\u00a0 37 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker St. Louis missed out on an opportunity to put together a winning streak after dropping its first seven games of the 2011 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":17253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[360,568,3329,623,863,363],"class_list":["post-19361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-colt-mccoy","tag-peyton-hillis","tag-sam-bradford","tag-st-louis-rams","tag-steven-jackson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19361","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=19361"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19362,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19361\/revisions\/19362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}