{"id":20300,"date":"2011-12-17T18:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-17T23:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=20300"},"modified":"2011-12-16T19:20:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-17T00:20:21","slug":"nfl-picks-week-15-green-bay-packers-vs-kansas-city-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-picks-week-15-green-bay-packers-vs-kansas-city-chiefs-20300\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Picks Week 15: Green Bay Packers vs. Kansas City Chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Green Bay Packers at Kansas City Chiefs
\nSunday, 12\/18\/11, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FOX
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Green Bay -14
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Green Bay -13.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 46.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 46
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Packers<\/a>
The Green Bay Packers continue their pursuit of perfect in Kansas City Sunday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Green Bay travels to Kansas City this Sunday for the team\u2019s final regular-season road game and can clinch home-field advantage throughout the NFC playoffs with a victory.\u00a0 \u201cObviously, there\u2019s no other team that can say they\u2019re 13-0 right now and on the precipice of doing something great,\u201d commented Packers linebacker Clay Matthews.\u00a0 Including last year\u2019s playoff run, the team has won 19 straight games, which serves as the longest such streak in franchise history.\u00a0 Green Bay is 9-4 ATS this season and the \u2018over\u2019 is also 9-4 through 13 games.<\/p>\n

The Packers are the No. 1 scoring offense in the league through Week 14, averaging 35.8 points per game, which is almost four points more than the New Orleans Saints (31.9).\u00a0 Green Bay will be playing without star wide receiver Greg Jennings for a couple weeks, but the team\u2019s depth should easily overcome the loss, as 19 players on the roster have reached the end zone.\u00a0 Quarterback Aaron Rodgers has essentially wrapped up the NFL MVP award, connecting on 69.6 percent of his passes for 4,125 yards and a career-high 39 touchdown passes.<\/p>\n

Kansas City has lost five of its last six games and will be playing its first contest under the direction of Romeo Crennel, who has taken over the team after the firing of third-year head coach Todd Haley.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ve talked about change and distractions,\u201d commented Crennel.\u00a0 \u201cWhen there\u2019s change, there\u2019s some uncertainty.\u201d\u00a0 He will certainly be up against it in this matchup, facing an undefeated team, while bringing in the 28th-ranked offense in the league.\u00a0 Kansas City is 7-3 ATS as an underdog this year and the \u2018under\u2019 is 7-3 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Chiefs are unsure who will be under center Sunday inside Arrowhead Stadium, as Kyle Orton is tentatively scheduled to start, while rookie Ricky Stanzi has moved up to the backup role.\u00a0 Kansas City has scored 173 total points this season, which is quite a disparity in facing a Green Bay squad that has tallied 248 points in the first-half of games this season.\u00a0 Since the start of November, the unit has scored 45 points overall, which is a point shy of the Packers putting up 46 against the Raiders last year.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Packers due to their 4-1 ATS mark as a favorite of 10.5 or more points, while the Chiefs are 1-5 ATS when facing a team with a winning road record.<\/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":"

Green Bay Packers at Kansas City Chiefs Sunday, 12\/18\/11, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FOX Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Green Bay -14 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Green Bay -13.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 46.5 Current Total:\u00a0 46 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Green Bay travels to Kansas City this Sunday for the team\u2019s final regular-season road game and can clinch home-field […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[416,5426,2888,1119,303,1059,5350],"class_list":["post-20300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-aaron-rodgers","tag-arrowhead-stadium","tag-clay-matthews","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-kyle-orton","tag-romeo-crennel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20300","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=20300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20302,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20300\/revisions\/20302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}