{"id":29658,"date":"2013-08-16T14:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T19:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=29658"},"modified":"2013-08-16T13:40:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T18:40:58","slug":"pro-football-picks-san-francisco-49ers-vs-kansas-city-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/pro-football-picks-san-francisco-49ers-vs-kansas-city-chiefs-29658\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Football Picks: San Francisco 49ers vs. Kansas City Chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Francisco 49ers vs. Kansas City Chiefs
\nFriday, 8\/16\/13, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 N\/A
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kansas City -1.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Kansas City -2.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 40
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 40
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Kansas City Chiefs will be motivated to pick up a victory for Alex Smith against the San Francisco 49ers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

San Francisco was handed a 10-6 defeat by the Denver Broncos as three-point home favorites in its preseason opener last week, while going well UNDER the betting total of 35.5.\u00a0 The 49ers did out-gain the Broncos by 68 yards, which can\u2019t be overlooked when making your pro football picks Friday night.\u00a0 Offensively, the team will use four quarterbacks in this affair, with Colin Kaepernick giving way to B.J. Daniels, Colt McCoy and Scott Tolzien.\u00a0 Kaepernick completed all four of his passes for 38 yards against the Broncos.<\/p>\n

The 49ers are hoping that wide receiver A.J. Jenkins can emerge as the No. 2 receiver opposite of Anquan Boldin, but he was hurt early in camp and lost a fumble in the exhibition opener.\u00a0 On the defensive end, first-round pick Eric Reid continues to challenge for the starting nod opposite Donte Whitner, with C.J. Spilman and Trenton Robinson being the other two options.<\/p>\n

Kansas City suffered a 17-13 defeat to the New Orleans Saints as three-point road underdogs last week, while going UNDER the betting total of 36.5.\u00a0 The Chiefs may have been looking ahead to this marquee matchup, especially with quarterback Alex Smith facing the team that selected him with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2005 NFL Draft.\u00a0 The starting unit traveled 80 yards on 14 plays in its first series, with Smith completing 7 of 8 passes, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the pro football odds page.<\/p>\n

Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles is listed as day-to-day with a mild strain of his outer right foot, which opens the door for rookie Knile Davis to gain some valuable experience.\u00a0 Kansas City\u2019s first team defense was outstanding against New Orleans\u2014demonstrating that it\u2019s taking to new coordinator Bob Sutton\u2019s system.\u00a0 The unit will be tested for a second consecutive week when matching up with one of the league\u2019s top offenses.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Chiefs due to being motivated in providing a victory for Smith over a team that left him behind.<\/p>\n

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San Francisco 49ers vs. Kansas City Chiefs Friday, 8\/16\/13, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 N\/A Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kansas City -1.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Kansas City -2.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 40 Current Total:\u00a0 40 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker San Francisco was handed a 10-6 defeat by the Denver Broncos as three-point home favorites in its preseason opener […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[1173,3034,7512,3729,303,31,299],"class_list":["post-29658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-alex-smith","tag-colin-kaepernick","tag-eric-reid","tag-jamaal-charles","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-nfl","tag-san-francisco-49ers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29658","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=29658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29659,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29658\/revisions\/29659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}