{"id":25647,"date":"2012-10-25T10:29:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T15:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=25647"},"modified":"2012-10-25T10:29:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T15:29:37","slug":"nfl-week-8-picks-tampa-bay-buccaneers-vs-minnesota-vikings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-week-8-picks-tampa-bay-buccaneers-vs-minnesota-vikings-25647\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 8 Picks: Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Minnesota Vikings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Minnesota Vikings
\nThursday, 10\/25\/12, 8:20 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NFL Network
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Minnesota -6
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Minnesota -6.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 43
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 43
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Bucs<\/a>
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have lost nine straight road games<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tampa Bay is 2-4 on the season and has lost all of its games by a touchdown or less, including a 35-28 setback to the New Orleans Saints as one-point home underdogs last week, while the team has gone OVER the total in three consecutive games.\u00a0 The Buccaneers offense has managed to come alive after their bye week, especially quarterback Josh Freeman, who has thrown for 748 yards and six touchdowns with a single interception in the last two weeks.\u00a0 Tampa Bay is 5-0 ATS as a road underdog of 3.5 to 7 points the last two-plus years, with the UNDER going 4-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Buccaneers have won five straight games in this series, but they\u2019ve lost nine consecutive contests on the road by an average of 18.2 points per game.\u00a0 Tampa Bay could snap that string of defeats due to possessing a defense that ranks third in the league in allowing just 76.0 rushing yards per game.\u00a0 Running back Doug Martin will need to continue building on his experience as rookie, entering this game with 553 total yards of offense.<\/p>\n

Minnesota owns a 5-6 record in Thursday night games, as it looks to win its fifth game in a matter of six weeks.\u00a0 The Vikings escaped with a 21-14 victory over the Arizona Cardinals as seven-point home favorites despite getting out-gained by 147 yards.\u00a0 Despite the team\u2019s 5-2 mark through seven games, quarterback Christian Ponder has come under a lot of heat, as he managed to throw for a season-low 58 yards last week.\u00a0 Minnesota is 1-8 ATS when playing with a total between 35.5 and 42 points since 2010.<\/p>\n

The Vikings have some dynamic players on offense, with wide receiver Percy Harvin ranking second in the NFL with 53 receptions, while running back Adrian Peterson has registered 29 career 100-yard games in his career.\u00a0 Minnesota is 18-8 all-time in this series when playing at home, but hasn\u2019t picked up such a victory since 2001.\u00a0 On the defensive end, Jared Allen has recorded a sack in five straight games.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Buccaneers due to their 13-6-1 ATS mark on the road, while the Vikings are 4-11 ATS following a straight-up win.<\/p>\n

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Minnesota Vikings Thursday, 10\/25\/12, 8:20 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NFL Network Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Minnesota -6 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Minnesota -6.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 43 Current Total:\u00a0 43 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Tampa Bay is 2-4 on the season and has lost all of its games by a touchdown or less, including a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[393,3326,7006,759,73,31,458],"class_list":["post-25647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-adrian-peterson","tag-christian-ponder","tag-doug-martin","tag-josh-freeman","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-nfl","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25647","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=25647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25648,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25647\/revisions\/25648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}