{"id":19922,"date":"2011-12-02T00:50:59","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T05:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=19922"},"modified":"2011-12-02T00:52:32","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T05:52:32","slug":"week-13-nfl-betting-ravens-go-for-7th-straight-win-over-browns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/week-13-nfl-betting-ravens-go-for-7th-straight-win-over-browns-19922\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 13 NFL Betting: Ravens go for 7th straight win over Browns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baltimore Ravens at Cleveland Browns
\nSunday, 12\/4\/11, 4:05 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Baltimore -7.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Baltimore -6.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 37
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 38.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Browns
Cleveland RB Peyton Hillis returned to action last week after missing five games and hopes to help his team end a six-game skid against the Ravens.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Baltimore Ravens will try to avoid continuing a bad habit of letdowns following big wins when they go for their seventh straight victory on the road against the Cleveland Browns on Sunday.\u00a0 The Ravens (8-3) have not covered the spread in consecutive weeks since Week 4 when they ripped the New York Jets prior to their bye.<\/p>\n

Technically, Baltimore (-6.5, 38) covered in its next game as well against Houston, but that came after a week off.\u00a0 Since that win over the Texans though, the Ravens have gone 2-3-1 against the spread despite winning four of the six games during that stretch.\u00a0 Motivation seemed to be a problem for them in road losses at Jacksonville and Seattle while they also barely held on in home wins against Arizona and Cincinnati.\u00a0 They were 0-3-1 ATS in those games.<\/p>\n

The Browns (4-7) have had more than motivation issues the past few years, losing six of their last eight games this season and going 1-7-2 ATS in their previous 10 at home.\u00a0 They have covered their last two games ATS and nearly won two in a row before falling at Cincinnati last week, 23-20.\u00a0 They led the Bengals 17-7 at halftime but managed just one field after the intermission.<\/p>\n

One of the main reasons Cleveland has struggled in the division over the last two seasons is that second-year quarterback Colt McCoy has not fared well against AFC North opponents.\u00a0 McCoy is 0-6 with a 66.6 passer rating vs. divisional opponents in his young career, and he was intercepted three times in the last meeting with Baltimore, resulting in a 20-10 home loss in Week 16 of 2010.<\/p>\n

Of course McCoy has not gotten much help offensively either.\u00a0 Running back Peyton Hillis rushed for 35 yards on 12 carries in the last game against the Ravens, and he played for the first time in six weeks last Sunday, finishing with 65 yards on 19 attempts.\u00a0 Hillis has dealt with various injuries along with contract issues this season, and he has yet to total more than 94 yards in any game after accomplishing that feat five times a year ago.<\/p>\n

It seems like forever ago that Hillis rushed for 144 yards on 22 carries against Baltimore in the breakthrough game of his career, as that came in a 24-17 road loss in Week 2 of last season.\u00a0 The Browns have dropped 11 of their past 15 games dating back to the end of last year and will be dealing with a Ravens team that has enjoyed nine days off between games following a 17-7 victory over San Francisco on Thanksgiving night.\u00a0 Baltimore was very motivated to win that one for head coach John Harbaugh over his brother John and the 49ers.\u00a0 On Sunday, bettors will find out how motivated this team is to keep rolling and stay in position to win the AFC North.<\/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":"

Baltimore Ravens at Cleveland Browns Sunday, 12\/4\/11, 4:05 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Baltimore -7.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Baltimore -6.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 37 Current Total:\u00a0 38.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker The Baltimore Ravens will try to avoid continuing a bad habit of letdowns following big wins when they go for their seventh straight […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":17252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[608,360,1930,1922,5199,3941],"class_list":["post-19922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-nfl-odds","tag-nfl-picks","tag-pro-football-betting","tag-week-13"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19922","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=19922"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19925,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19922\/revisions\/19925"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}