{"id":25160,"date":"2012-09-22T10:04:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T15:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=25160"},"modified":"2012-09-22T10:04:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T15:04:37","slug":"nfl-week-3-picks-san-francisco-49ers-vs-minnesota-vikings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-week-3-picks-san-francisco-49ers-vs-minnesota-vikings-25160\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 3 Picks: San Francisco 49ers vs. Minnesota Vikings"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Francisco 49ers at Minnesota Vikings
\nSunday, 9\/23\/12, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FOX
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 San Francisco -6
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 San Francisco -6.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 43.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 43
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Vikings<\/a>
Minnesota Vikings RB Adrian Peterson hasn’t ran for over 100 yards in seven consecutive games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

San Francisco has been the most impressive NFL team in the early going, coming off a 27-19 win over the Detroit Lions as seven-point home favorites last week.\u00a0 The 49ers are now focused on trying to win their first three games since the 1998 season.\u00a0 \u201cPlaying on this team right now is really exciting,\u201d commented 49ers linebacker Aldon Smith.\u00a0 The team will not travel back to the West Coast before playing in the Big Apple in Week 4, as it will embark on Youngstown for a third consecutive year.\u00a0 San Francisco is 4-0-1 ATS in September, which is important to note when making your pro football picks.<\/p>\n

The 49ers are extremely happy with quarterback Alex Smith\u2019s play to start the year, as he is currently possesses a passer rating of 115.9, which is the second-best mark in the league.\u00a0 San Francisco has one of the more balanced offenses due to having Frank Gore in the backfield, who enters this week as the fourth-leading rusher.\u00a0 There\u2019s no doubt that Jim Harbaugh will try to get the play-action passing game going, considering Sunday\u2019s opponent has one of the worst secondaries in football.<\/p>\n

Minnesota came very close to making this a matchup of unbeaten teams, but it suffered a 23-20 setback to the Indianapolis Colts as three-point road favorites last week.\u00a0 The Vikings have out-gained both of their opponents this year, which is important to note when looking over the pro football odds page.\u00a0 Defensively, the team is dealing with some injuries at linebacker, which could be a major factor in taking on an opponent averages a league-best 167 yards on the ground.\u00a0 Minnesota is 4-1-2 ATS in Week 3 over the last seven seasons.<\/p>\n

The Vikings are glad that star running back Adrian Peterson is back in the fold after last year\u2019s season-ending knee injury, but it\u2019s important to note that he hasn\u2019t gone over the century mark on the ground in seven consecutive games.\u00a0 Minnesota wide receiver Percy Harvin has turned into a dynamic threat all over the field, coming off a career high 12-catch performance against the Colts.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Vikings due to the home team being 5-2 against the spread in the last seven meetings in this NFC series.<\/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":"

San Francisco 49ers at Minnesota Vikings Sunday, 9\/23\/12, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FOX Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 San Francisco -6 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 San Francisco -6.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 43.5 Current Total:\u00a0 43 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker San Francisco has been the most impressive NFL team in the early going, coming off a 27-19 win over the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[393,1173,1066,73,3613,31,299],"class_list":["post-25160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-adrian-peterson","tag-alex-smith","tag-frank-gore","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-nfc","tag-nfl","tag-san-francisco-49ers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25160","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=25160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25161,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25160\/revisions\/25161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}