{"id":26672,"date":"2012-12-15T19:01:57","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T00:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=26672"},"modified":"2012-12-15T19:01:57","modified_gmt":"2012-12-16T00:01:57","slug":"nfl-week-15-predictions-san-francisco-49ers-vs-new-england-patriots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-week-15-predictions-san-francisco-49ers-vs-new-england-patriots-26672\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 15 Predictions: San Francisco 49ers vs. New England Patriots"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Francisco 49ers at New England Patriots
\nSunday, 12\/16\/12, 8:20 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NBC
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 New England -4.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 New England -4.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 49
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 46.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"49ers<\/a>
The San Francisco 49ers lead the NFL in allowing just 14.2 points per game<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

San Francisco has won three of its last four games, including a 27-13 victory over the Miami Dolphins as 10.5-point home favorites, while going OVER the total for the fourth time in five contests.\u00a0 The 49ers can wrap up the NFC West division with a victory and a loss by the Seattle Seahawks against the Buffalo Bills.\u00a0 The franchise has gone 10-4 on the road under second-year head coach Jim Harbaugh, which makes it a dangerous underdog when looking over the pro football odds page.<\/p>\n

The 49ers will be led offensively by second-year quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who threw for 185 yards last week and ranks third at the position with 351 rushing yards.\u00a0 San Francisco ranks 13th in the league in scoring 24.3 points per game, but the stop unit leads all teams in surrendering just 14.2.\u00a0 In 2012, the team has tallied a plus-six turnover differential, but it\u2019s still important to note that it\u2019s nowhere near its finishing total of plus-28 in that category a season ago.<\/p>\n

New England is set for another primetime contest after embarrassing the Houston Texans on Monday Night Football last week, as it now seeks to extend its current win streak to eight games.\u00a0 The Patriots have covered the spread in four of those seven games, while the OVER is 6-1 in that stretch.\u00a0 Last year\u2019s AFC champions have won 10 regular-season games in 10 consecutive seasons, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your NFL picks against the spread in Week 15.<\/p>\n

The Patriots have tallied an 18-3 home record against NFC opponents since 2002, while they\u2019ve averaged 27.6 points per game in 86 home game during that span.\u00a0 New England owns a winning 18-15 mark when playing on Sunday Night Football, which should improve due to its 21-1 record at Gillette Stadium in the month of December.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the 49ers due to their 22-9-1 ATS mark in their last 32 games, while the Patriots are 1-4 ATS after allowing 15 or less points.<\/p>\n

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San Francisco 49ers at New England Patriots Sunday, 12\/16\/12, 8:20 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 NBC Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 New England -4.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 New England -4.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 49 Current Total:\u00a0 46.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker San Francisco has won three of its last four games, including a 27-13 victory over the Miami Dolphins as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[414,3034,5649,3243,125,2587,299],"class_list":["post-26672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-afc","tag-colin-kaepernick","tag-gillette-stadium","tag-jim-harbaugh","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfc-west","tag-san-francisco-49ers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26672","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=26672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26673,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26672\/revisions\/26673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}