{"id":19909,"date":"2011-12-01T20:36:22","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T01:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=19909"},"modified":"2011-12-01T20:37:13","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T01:37:13","slug":"nfl-picks-week-13-carolina-panthers-at-tampa-bay-buccaneers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-picks-week-13-carolina-panthers-at-tampa-bay-buccaneers-19909\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Picks Week 13: Carolina Panthers at Tampa Bay Buccaneers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carolina Panthers at Tampa Bay Buccaneers
\nSunday, 12\/4\/11, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FOX
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Carolina -3.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Carolina -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 48
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 47
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Carolina Panthers haven't won back-to-back games since the end of the 2009 regular season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Carolina snapped a three-game losing streak by handing the Indianapolis Colts a 27-19 loss as 3.5-point road favorites last week.\u00a0 Panthers first-year head coach Ron Rivera was impressed in how his team finished down the stretch in that contest, but the team hasn\u2019t won back-to-back games since closing out the 2009 regular season with three consecutive wins.\u00a0 \u201cThe opportunity is to do something that we haven\u2019t done,\u201d stated Rivera.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ll approach it one Sunday at a time.\u201d\u00a0 Carolina is 3-3 ATS as an underdog this season and the \u2018over\u2019 is 5-1 in that particular situation.<\/p>\n

The Panthers running game has built some momentum since the start of the season in getting use to rookie quarterback Cam Newton, rushing for over the century mark in at least the past nine games, coming off a season-high 201 yards last week.\u00a0 Newton has certainly opened up the rushing lanes in sitting just 647 yards behind Peyton Manning\u2019s rookie record in 1998 of 3,739 passing yards.\u00a0 Carolina will definitely have some opportunity to throw the football, facing a defense that allows 254.9 yards per game through the air and given up 19 touchdown passes in 11 games.<\/p>\n

Tampa Bay has lost five straight games since upsetting the New Orleans Saints as six-point home underdogs on Oct. 16.\u00a0 The Buccaneers have been out-gained in six of their last seven games.\u00a0 Third-year head coach Raheem Morris is starting to hear things around the area about potentially losing his job at the end of the year.\u00a0 \u201cI am not an insurance salesman,\u201d stated Morris in fielding the question this week.\u00a0 \u201cWe coach football.\u201d\u00a0 The defense has been a disaster this year in giving up 394.6 yards per game, ranking 31st in the league.\u00a0 Tampa Bay is 5-14 ATS at home the last two-plus years.<\/p>\n

The Buccaneers have been absolutely horrendous in trying to stop the run, which has been magnified by suffering injuries to defensive tackle Gerald McCoy for the season and Brian Price being limited by an ankle injury.\u00a0 Offensively, quarterback Josh Freeman\u00a0 is suffering through a forgettable campaign, leading to the unit already committing four more turnovers than a year ago.\u00a0 He is listed as probable with a shoulder injury that was suffered in the final moments of last week\u2019s 23-17 loss to the Tennessee Titans as three-point road underdogs.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Panthers due to their 14-5 ATS mark in December, while the Buccaneers are 4-9-1 ATS in the same situation.<\/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":"

Carolina Panthers at Tampa Bay Buccaneers Sunday, 12\/4\/11, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FOX Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Carolina -3.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Carolina -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 48 Current Total:\u00a0 47 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Carolina snapped a three-game losing streak by handing the Indianapolis Colts a 27-19 loss as 3.5-point road favorites last week.\u00a0 Panthers first-year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":17237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[3365,279,759,31,1129,458],"class_list":["post-19909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-cam-newton","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-josh-freeman","tag-nfl","tag-raheem-morris","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19909","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=19909"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19912,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19909\/revisions\/19912"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}