{"id":20688,"date":"2011-12-30T18:15:08","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T23:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=20688"},"modified":"2011-12-30T18:21:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T23:21:38","slug":"tom-brady-new-england-patriots-qb-seeks-revenge-against-the-buffalo-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/tom-brady-new-england-patriots-qb-seeks-revenge-against-the-buffalo-bills-20688\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Brady: New England Patriots QB Seeks Revenge Against the Buffalo Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"

Buffalo Bills at New England Patriots
\nSunday, 1\/1\/12, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 New England -13
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 New England -10
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 51.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 50
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Patriots<\/a>
New England Patriots QB Tom Brady will try to wrap up the AFC's No. 1 seed Sunday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Buffalo knows it will face an angry football team to close out the regular season after picking up a 34-31 upset win over the New England Patriots as seven-point home underdogs on Sept. 25.\u00a0 The Bills were happy to snap their seven-game losing streak last week with a 40-14 win over the Denver Broncos as 2.5-point home underdogs.\u00a0 \u201cIt obviously feels a lot better,\u201d stated Bills head coach Chan Gailey about picking up a win.\u00a0 \u201cIt took all three phases playing well.\u201d\u00a0 Buffalo is 17-16 ATS as an underdog over the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Bills are 0-9 against the Patriots inside Gillette Stadium and have actually lost 10 consecutive games in this series when playing on the road.\u00a0 Quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick will need to play extremely well in order to pull off a major upset Sunday, as he comes off a 196-yard performance against the Broncos.\u00a0 He really struggled during the team\u2019s recent drought, throwing 12 interceptions and feeling the pressure in a locker room that began to question is major contract extension that was signed earlier in the season.<\/p>\n

New England clinched a first-round playoff bye and will now look to secure home-field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs with a victory this weekend.\u00a0 The Patriots have earned the number one seed three times in the past nine seasons, including last season that saw them get bounced out by the New York Jets.\u00a0 Many around the league are questioning how far this year\u2019s squad can go, especially with the league\u2019s worst defense that surrenders 412.1 yards per game.\u00a0 New England is 3-6 ATS as a favorite of 10 or more points the last two-plus campaigns.<\/p>\n

The Patriots are led by an offense that\u2019s directed by Pro Bowl quarterback Tom Brady, who has thrown for the fourth-most yards in a single season in league history.\u00a0 His main targets are tight end Rob Gronkowski and wide receiver Wes Welker, tallying 1,518 and 1,219 receiving yards respectively.\u00a0 New England has simply dominated AFC East divisional foes since the 2001 season, posting a 52-15 mark in such contests.\u00a0 That\u2019s the best intra-divisional record in the league by a mile.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Patriots due to their 9-2-1 ATS mark in Week 17, while the Bills are 1-5 ATS in January.<\/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":"

Buffalo Bills at New England Patriots Sunday, 1\/1\/12, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 New England -13 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 New England -10 Opening Total:\u00a0 51.5 Current Total:\u00a0 50 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Buffalo knows it will face an angry football team to close out the regular season after picking up a 34-31 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":3955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[540,127,125,31,3720,398,1592],"class_list":["post-20688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-afc-east","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-ryan-fitzpatrick","tag-tom-brady","tag-wes-welker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20688","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=20688"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20691,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20688\/revisions\/20691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}