{"id":29770,"date":"2013-08-24T13:14:38","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T18:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=29770"},"modified":"2013-08-24T13:14:38","modified_gmt":"2013-08-24T18:14:38","slug":"nfl-preseason-week-3-predictions-st-louis-rams-vs-denver-broncos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-preseason-week-3-predictions-st-louis-rams-vs-denver-broncos-29770\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Preseason Week 3 Predictions: St. Louis Rams vs. Denver Broncos"},"content":{"rendered":"

St. Louis Rams vs. Denver Broncos
\nSaturday, 8\/24\/13, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Denver -7
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Denver -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 43
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 43
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Denver Broncos will likely play their first-team players into the second half Saturday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

St. Louis is 0-2 straight up and against the spread during the 2013 NFL preseason, which includes a 19-7 defeat to the Green Bay Packers as four-point home favorites a week ago, while going UNDER the betting total of 41.\u00a0 The Rams starters are expected to see their most action to date in this affair, with the spotlight being placed on four-year quarterback Sam Bradford, who has completed 65 percent of his passes and ranked up 258 yards on just 20 attempts.\u00a0 St. Louis is 5-0 ATS in its last five opportunities in Week 3 of its exhibition schedule, which is important to consider when making your pro football picks Saturday night.<\/p>\n

The Rams have yet to decided on their No. 2 signal-caller behind Bradford, with Kellen Clemens and Austin Davis battling it out.\u00a0 Clemens completed just 2-of-11 passes for 27 yards against the Packers, while Davis was 7-of-19 for 114 yards and a touchdown.\u00a0 On the other side of the ball, St. Louis will try to get after Denver quarterback Peyton Manning, as the unit tallied 52 sacks a season ago.<\/p>\n

Denver expects to have its first team play into the second half, which is something head coach John Fox will monitor closely.\u00a0 \u201cThis is the preseason,\u201d commented Fox.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re trying to get ready for our regular season and yet still hone our skills to get ready for that.\u201d\u00a0 The Broncos are expecting to continue platooning running backs Ronnie Hillman and Montee Ball, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the pro football odds page.\u00a0 If neither player emerges as a top option\u2014Knowshon Moreno could enter back into the mix atop the depth chart.<\/p>\n

The Broncos will continue preparing for life without linebacker Von Miller when the regular season starts, as he\u2019ll miss the first six games due to a suspension over the league\u2019s substance abuse policy.\u00a0 Denver will start the year without 29.5 of its 52 sacks from a season ago, with former linebacker Elvis Dumervil landing with the Baltimore Ravens.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Broncos, as the Rams are 0-4 ATS as underdogs in preseason play off back-to-back losses.<\/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":"

St. Louis Rams vs. Denver Broncos Saturday, 8\/24\/13, 8:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Denver -7 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Denver -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 43 Current Total:\u00a0 43 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker St. Louis is 0-2 straight up and against the spread during the 2013 NFL preseason, which includes a 19-7 defeat to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[570,31,282,623,863,7197],"class_list":["post-29770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-denver-broncos","tag-nfl","tag-peyton-manning","tag-sam-bradford","tag-st-louis-rams","tag-von-miller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29770","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=29770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29771,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29770\/revisions\/29771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}