{"id":26068,"date":"2012-11-11T20:00:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T01:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=26068"},"modified":"2012-11-10T11:39:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T16:39:52","slug":"nfl-week-10-picks-against-the-spread-kansas-city-chiefs-vs-pittsburgh-steelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-week-10-picks-against-the-spread-kansas-city-chiefs-vs-pittsburgh-steelers-26068\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 10 Picks Against the Spread: Kansas City Chiefs vs. Pittsburgh Steelers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kansas City Chiefs at Pittsburgh Steelers
\nMonday, 11\/12\/12, 8:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Pittsburgh -12.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Pittsburgh -12
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 43.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 42
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Bills<\/a>
The Pittsburgh Steelers have never lost a Monday Night Football game at Heinz Field<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kansas City is coming off a 31-13 setback to the San Diego Chargers on Thursday Night Football last week, which served as the team\u2019s fifth consecutive loss.\u00a0 Chiefs head coach Romeo Crennel decided to remove himself from handling the team\u2019s defensive coordinator responsibilities, with Gary Gibbs taking over that unit.\u00a0 The team has been outscored by 107 points on the season, leading to a disappointing 1-7 record heading into the second half of the 2012 NFL regular season.\u00a0 Kansas City is 3-6 ATS in November the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 5-4 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Chiefs will need a big performance out of running back Jamaal Charles, who currently ranks fourth in the AFC with 79.3 rushing yards per game.\u00a0 Through eight games, Kansas City is leading the conference in averaging 149.9 rushing yards per game, which is just ahead of the New England Patriots.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to note that the franchise is 22-16 all-time when playing on Monday Night Football.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh is playing its best football of the season in winning three consecutive games, including a 24-20 victory over the New York Giants as 3.5-point road underdogs, while going UNDER the total in each of those contests.\u00a0 The Steelers out-gained the Giants by a 167-yard margin, which has the entire locker room feeling confident heading into this conference affair.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re finishing the game now,\u201d stated Steelers linebacker LaMarr Woodley.\u00a0 Pittsburgh is 5-2 ATS as a home favorite of 7.5 to 14 points the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 6-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Steelers have won their last 14 home games when playing in this prime-time event, including all six inside Heinz Field.\u00a0 Pittsburgh is 18-9 all-time against Kansas City during the regular season, including an 8-4 mark when playing in the Steel City.\u00a0 Defensively, the team has limited opponents to under 100 yards rushing in its last seven games, while opposing signal-callers have failed to have a 75.0 or better passer rating in four consecutive contests.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this AFC tilt, with the Steelers going OVER the number in 20 of their last 28 games after allowing less than 250 total yards in their previous game.<\/p>\n

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Kansas City Chiefs at Pittsburgh Steelers Monday, 11\/12\/12, 8:30 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 ESPN Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Pittsburgh -12.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Pittsburgh -12 Opening Total:\u00a0 43.5 Current Total:\u00a0 42 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Kansas City is coming off a 31-13 setback to the San Diego Chargers on Thursday Night Football last week, which served as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[414,3977,3729,303,441,31,346],"class_list":["post-26068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-afc","tag-heinz-field","tag-jamaal-charles","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-monday-night-football","tag-nfl","tag-pittsburgh-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26068","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=26068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26069,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26068\/revisions\/26069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}