{"id":24793,"date":"2012-09-06T17:26:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T22:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=24793"},"modified":"2012-09-06T17:26:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T22:26:51","slug":"new-england-patriots-defending-afc-champions-take-on-the-tennessee-titans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/new-england-patriots-defending-afc-champions-take-on-the-tennessee-titans-24793\/","title":{"rendered":"New England Patriots: Defending AFC Champions Take On the Tennessee Titans"},"content":{"rendered":"

New England Patriots at Tennessee Titans
\nSunday, 9\/9\/12, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 New England -7
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 New England -5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 47.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 47
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Patriots<\/a>
The New England Patriots will try to put last year’s painful Super Bowl loss in the rear-view mirror Sunday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New England has won eight consecutive season openers, which is obviously going to attract a lot of action at the betting window, as they look to move past last year\u2019s loss to the New York Giants in the Super Bowl.\u00a0 \u201cThere\u2019s certainly at lot of excitement from everybody in the locker room,\u201d commented Patriots quarterback Tom Brady.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s been a long training camp.\u201d\u00a0 The squad is use to winning, capturing eight of the last nine AFC East division titles.\u00a0 New England is 6-0 ATS on the road when the total is between 45.5 and 49 points.<\/p>\n

The Patriots figure to put up tremendous offensive numbers again with Brady under center, as he finished last year with 5,235 passing yards.\u00a0 New England was 1-3 during the 2012 NFL preseason, including a 6-3 loss to the Giants in a game that figured to offer the franchise a chance at revenge, but head coach Bill Belichick rested virtually all of his starters.\u00a0 The Patriots lead the all-time series, 21-15-1, but have some issues on the offensive line.\u00a0 Brady has won four of his five games against the Titans, including a 59-0 blowout win three years ago.<\/p>\n

Tennessee begins it second season under head coach Mike Munchak, as he led the franchise to a second-place finish in the AFC South and a 9-7 overall record.\u00a0 The Titans will have a new leader on offense, with second-year player Jake Locker taking over for veteran Matt Hasselbeck, something that was announced prior to the team\u2019s third preseason game.\u00a0 The former Washington Huskies star passed for 542 yards and four touchdowns without an interception in limited action last year.\u00a0 Tennessee is 2-1 ATS as a home underdog since 2010.<\/p>\n

The Titans are 8-5 in regular season home openers at LP Field, as the team is expecting its 137th consecutive sell out at the venue.\u00a0 Tennessee averaged 335.1 yards per game offensively last year, which is nearly 100 yards less than its season-opening opponent finished with (428.0).\u00a0 Locker completed 31 of 60 passes for 316 yards during the preseason.\u00a0 With Kenny Britt suspended for the opener, expect rookie wide receiver Kendall Wright to see plenty of action.\u00a0 Running back Chris Johnson also figures to get the ball quite a bit, as he participated in a full offseason, which wasn\u2019t the case in 2011.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Titans due to their 8-6 ATS mark as an underdog, while the Patriots are 3-3 ATS in September games.<\/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":"

New England Patriots at Tennessee Titans Sunday, 9\/9\/12, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 New England -7 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 New England -5 Opening Total:\u00a0 47.5 Current Total:\u00a0 47 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker New England has won eight consecutive season openers, which is obviously going to attract a lot of action at the […]<\/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":[1065,2041,5462,125,31,301,398],"class_list":["post-24793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-chris-johnson","tag-jake-locker","tag-lp-field","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-tennessee-titans","tag-tom-brady"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24793","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=24793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24794,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24793\/revisions\/24794"}],"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=24793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}