{"id":19585,"date":"2011-11-23T00:58:58","date_gmt":"2011-11-23T05:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=19585"},"modified":"2011-11-23T00:58:58","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T05:58:58","slug":"thanksgiving-night-football-picks-harbaugh-brothers-meet-in-baltimore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/thanksgiving-night-football-picks-harbaugh-brothers-meet-in-baltimore-19585\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Night Football Picks: Harbaugh brothers meet in Baltimore"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Francisco 49ers at Baltimore Ravens
\nThursday, 11\/24\/11, 8:20 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NFL
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Baltimore -4
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Baltimore -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 39.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 38.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"49ers
John Harbaugh will try to beat his brother Jim and end San Francisco's eight-game winning streak on Thanksgiving night.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For the first time ever, two brothers will stand on opposing sidelines from one another as head coaches when the San Francisco 49ers visit the Baltimore Ravens on Thanksgiving night.\u00a0 The fact that San Francisco\u2019s Jim Harbaugh and Baltimore\u2019s John Harbaugh both have good enough teams to possibly meet again in Super Bowl XLVI only adds to the intrigue.<\/p>\n

The 49ers (9-1) can clinch the NFC West with a victory against the Ravens (7-3) and a loss by Seattle against Washington on Sunday.\u00a0 Their lone loss came against Dallas in overtime back in Week 2, as they have reeled off eight straight wins both straight-up and against the spread.<\/p>\n

Baltimore (-3, O\/U 38.5) has not been nearly as consistent this season, especially over the past five weeks.\u00a0 The Ravens are 1-3-1 ATS during that stretch and have won a game by more than three points only once since routing Houston 29-14 in Week 6.\u00a0 They are coming off a 31-24 home victory against Cincinnati last week, improving to 5-0 at M&T Bank Stadium.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, San Francisco topped Arizona 23-7 last week, and each of the team\u2019s last six games during the winning streak has been decided by six points or more.\u00a0 49ers quarterback Alex Smith has played well for the most part this year, but he will face a tough Baltimore defense whether linebacker Ray Lewis plays or not.<\/p>\n

Lewis sat out last week\u2019s win over the Bengals with a foot injury, the first time he missed a start in 58 games.\u00a0 The Ravens surrendered a season-high 483 yards without Lewis in the lineup and gave up two rushing touchdowns for just the second time in 38 games.<\/p>\n

Baltimore\u2019s challenge offensively will be trying to run the ball against a San Francisco team that ranks first in the NFL in rush defense, allowing only 73.9 yards per game on the ground.\u00a0 Ravens running back Ray Rice is coming off a 100-yard game against the league\u2019s third-ranked rush defense and could be a key factor in this game due to his ability to catch the ball out the backfield as well.\u00a0 The 49ers are the only team in the NFL not to give up a rushing touchdown this year.<\/p>\n

San Francisco has a back looking to break the team record for rushing yards in Frank Gore, who needs 61 against Baltimore to pass Joe Perry.\u00a0\u00a0 Gore bounced back from a six-carry, no-yard game against the New York Giants with 88 yards on 24 carries last week against the Cardinals.\u00a0 He totaled 52 yards on 16 carries in the last meeting with the Ravens four years ago, resulting in a 9-7 loss for the 49ers.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning season and let the NFL handicappers<\/a> at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

San Francisco 49ers at Baltimore Ravens Thursday, 11\/24\/11, 8:20 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NFL Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Baltimore -4 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Baltimore -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 39.5 Current Total:\u00a0 38.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker For the first time ever, two brothers will stand on opposing sidelines from one another as head coaches when the San Francisco […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":3942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[608,3243,3723,1930,1922,5199,299,3861],"class_list":["post-19585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-jim-harbaugh","tag-john-harbaugh","tag-nfl-odds","tag-nfl-picks","tag-pro-football-betting","tag-san-francisco-49ers","tag-week-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19585","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\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19586,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19585\/revisions\/19586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}