{"id":19712,"date":"2011-11-27T20:25:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T01:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=19712"},"modified":"2011-11-27T20:25:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T01:25:32","slug":"monday-night-football-betting-giants-look-to-break-2-game-skid-at-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/monday-night-football-betting-giants-look-to-break-2-game-skid-at-new-orleans-19712\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Night Football Betting: Giants look to break 2-game skid at New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Giants at New Orleans Saints
\nMonday, 11\/28\/11, 8:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 New Orleans -6.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 New Orleans -7.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 52
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 51
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Giants QB Eli Manning hopes to have a big game in his return home to New Orleans.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The New York Giants will try to avoid falling out of first place in the NFC East when they visit the New Orleans Saints on Monday Night Football.\u00a0 The Giants (6-4) need to keep pace with Dallas after the Cowboys earned a 20-19 victory against the Miami Dolphins on Thanksgiving Day while the Saints (7-3) hope to stay ahead of the Atlanta Falcons in the NFC South following their bye week.<\/p>\n

New York has dropped two games in a row after putting together a three-game winning streak.\u00a0 The Giants have still scored 20 points or more in eight of their past nine and will probably need to total much more than that against a New Orleans team that has averaged 39 in winning the last two meetings.<\/p>\n

The Saints (-7.5, O\/U 51) have won those games due to the strong play of quarterback Drew Brees, who completed 23 of 30 passes for 369 yards with four touchdowns and no interceptions in the last meeting alone, resulting in a 48-27 rout.\u00a0 Brees has never lost to New York in three career starts, going 3-0 with seven touchdowns overall and no picks.<\/p>\n

New Orleans has been outstanding at home this season, going 4-0 both straight-up and against the spread.\u00a0 Only one opponent has managed to lose by less than 11 points to the Saints at the Superdome, as Houston blew a 26-17 lead in the fourth quarter of a 40-33 setback in Week 3.<\/p>\n

The biggest concern for the Giants will be trying to protect their QB Eli Manning after he was sacked three times in a 17-10 home loss to Philadelphia last week.\u00a0 Their offensive line will be without left tackle Will Beatty, who underwent successful surgery on Thursday to reattach the retina in his right eye.<\/p>\n

Manning returns home to New Orleans and could use some more help from his running game.\u00a0 Running back Ahmad Bradshaw remains out with a foot injury, and backup Brandon Jacobs has not totaled more than 72 yards on the ground all season.\u00a0 Jacobs totaled just 21 yards on 12 carries last week against the Eagles, and the Saints are allowing 121.5 rushing yards per game.<\/p>\n

New Orleans has not had much of a rushing attack lately, relying almost solely on Brees to get the team wins.\u00a0 In a 26-23 overtime victory at Atlanta before their bye, the Saints saw Pierre Thomas, Darren Sproles and Mark Ingram combine for only 41 yards on 16 carries while Brees threw for 322 yards and both touchdowns.<\/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":"

New York Giants at New Orleans Saints Monday, 11\/28\/11, 8:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 New Orleans -6.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 New Orleans -7.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 52 Current Total:\u00a0 51 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker The New York Giants will try to avoid falling out of first place in the NFC East when they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":4142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[1034,598,441,427,401,1930,1922,5199,3861],"class_list":["post-19712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-drew-brees","tag-eli-manning","tag-monday-night-football","tag-new-orleans-saints","tag-new-york-giants","tag-nfl-odds","tag-nfl-picks","tag-pro-football-betting","tag-week-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19712","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=19712"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19725,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19712\/revisions\/19725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}