{"id":30810,"date":"2013-10-21T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-21T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=30810"},"modified":"2013-10-20T19:14:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T00:14:09","slug":"monday-night-football-preview-minnesota-vikings-vs-new-york-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/monday-night-football-preview-minnesota-vikings-vs-new-york-giants-30810\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday Night Football Preview: Minnesota Vikings vs. New York Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minnesota Vikings vs. New York Giants
\nMonday, 10\/21\/13, 8:40 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 New York -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 New York -3.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 47
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 47
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Vikings<\/a>
New York Giants QB Eli Manning must protect the football on Monday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Minnesota is 1-4 SU and 2-3 ATS through five games this season, as it looks to bounce back from a 35-10 setback to the Carolina Panthers as 2.5-point home favorites Oct. 13, while searching to win the statistical battle for the first time in 2013.\u00a0 The Vikings will be led by running back Adrian Peterson, who is third in team history with 527 rushing yards on Monday Night Football, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your NFL expert picks to close out Week 7.\u00a0 Minnesota is 10-14 SU and 14-8-2 ATS as an underdog the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 14-10 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Vikings will have a new player under center, with former Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Josh Freeman getting the start, but he\u2019s completed an NFL-low 45.7 percent of his passes this season.\u00a0 Minnesota head coach Leslie Frazier is hoping that Freeman can regain the form that he showed when throwing for 4,065 yards and 27 touchdowns a season ago.\u00a0 The franchise has won four of its last five games in this series.<\/p>\n

New York is still searching for its first victory of the season, as it returns to MetLife Stadium after dropping a 27-21 decision to the Chicago Bears as 9.5-point underdogs Oct. 10.\u00a0 The Giants have lost the statistical battle in their last five contests, with most of the disparity being on the ground.\u00a0 Longtime head coach Tom Coughlin is 3-5 over the course of his career against the Vikings, which is important to consider when looking over the pro football odds page.\u00a0 New York is 2-2 SU and 4-0 ATS versus NFC North opponents since 2011, with the OVER going 3-1 in those four opportunities.<\/p>\n

The Giants are 22-33-1 overall when being featured on this primetime broadcast, including a 7-8 mark when playing at home.\u00a0 New York signal-caller Eli Manning must take care of the football, as he\u2019s thrown an NFL-high 15 interceptions\u2014matching his total from all of 2012.\u00a0 The two-time Super Bowl champion may find some success due to facing a pass defense that ranks 29th in the league in allowing an average of 308.0 yards per game.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Vikings due to the Giants being 3-8 ATS in their last 11 games versus losing teams.<\/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":"

Minnesota Vikings vs. New York Giants Monday, 10\/21\/13, 8:40 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 New York -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 New York -3.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 47 Current Total:\u00a0 47 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Minnesota is 1-4 SU and 2-3 ATS through five games this season, as it looks to bounce back from a 35-10 setback […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[598,759,5519,73,441,401],"class_list":["post-30810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-eli-manning","tag-josh-freeman","tag-metlife-stadium","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-monday-night-football","tag-new-york-giants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30810","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=30810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30811,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30810\/revisions\/30811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}