{"id":29841,"date":"2013-08-29T13:33:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T18:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=29841"},"modified":"2013-08-29T13:33:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T18:33:14","slug":"nfl-preseason-week-4-picks-green-bay-packers-vs-kansas-city-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-preseason-week-4-picks-green-bay-packers-vs-kansas-city-chiefs-29841\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Preseason Week 4 Picks: Green Bay Packers vs. Kansas City Chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Green Bay Packers vs. Kansas City Chiefs
\nThursday, 8\/29\/13, 8:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kansas City -2.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Kansas City -4.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 36.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 36.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Kansas City Chiefs are 0-10 ATS in their L10 preseason games as favorites<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Green Bay has alternated wins and losses in its first three preseason games, as it looks to bounce back from a 17-10 setback to the Seattle Seahawks as 2.5-point home underdogs last Friday, while going UNDER the total for a third consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Packers own a 7-6-1 advantage over the Chiefs in 14 prior meetings during exhibition play, as the two teams prepare to meet in a preseason finale for a fourth consecutive year.<\/p>\n

The Packers have pretty much decided on Vince Young as the backup to starting quarterback Aaron Rodgers, as they released former Texas Tech Raiders star Graham Harrell last Saturday.\u00a0 Green Bay has some other roster issues to figure out, including which tight ends will land behind Jermichael Finley on the depth chart, while also trying to figure out its No. 5 wide receiver.\u00a0 Of the 85 players currently on the squad, 44 of them were drafted by the Packers.<\/p>\n

Kansas City picked up its first preseason victory after dropping its first two affairs, as it came away with a 26-20 overtime win over the Pittsburgh Steelers as three-point road underdogs last Saturday, while going OVER the betting total of 40.\u00a0 The Chiefs outgained the Steelers by 55 yards\u2014after losing the statistical battle by a triple-digit margin in their first two games versus the San Francisco 49ers and Pittsburgh Steelers.\u00a0 Kansas City is 0-10 ATS in its last 10 preseason games as favorites, which is hard to ignore when making your NFL betting picks Thursday night.<\/p>\n

The Chiefs may play some of their starters in this matchup, as first-year head coach Andy Reid continues to get acclimated with his new surroundings.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re just getting ready for the Packers and everybody is getting ready to play,\u201d stated Reid.\u00a0 \u201cWe haven\u2019t made any decisions on who\u2019s playing and who is not playing.\u201d\u00a0 Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Alex Smith will likely sit this one out, as he comes off a solid performance of completing 17 of 24 passes for 158 yards last time out.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Packers in this affair, as the Chiefs have consistently failed to cover the number before the regular season.<\/p>\n

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Green Bay Packers vs. Kansas City Chiefs Thursday, 8\/29\/13, 8:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kansas City -2.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Kansas City -4.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 36.5 Current Total:\u00a0 36.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Green Bay has alternated wins and losses in its first three preseason games, as it looks to bounce back from a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":17247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[1173,3728,1119,303,31,431],"class_list":["post-29841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-alex-smith","tag-andy-reid","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-nfl","tag-vince-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29841","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=29841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29842,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29841\/revisions\/29842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}