{"id":31408,"date":"2013-11-21T16:26:58","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T21:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=31408"},"modified":"2013-11-21T16:26:58","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T21:26:58","slug":"new-orleans-saints-vs-atlanta-falcons-thursday-night-nfl-betting-odds-and-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/new-orleans-saints-vs-atlanta-falcons-thursday-night-nfl-betting-odds-and-picks-31408\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans Saints vs. Atlanta Falcons: Thursday Night NFL Betting Odds and Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Orleans Saints vs. Atlanta Falcons
\nThursday, 11\/21\/13, 8:25 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 New Orleans -7
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 New Orleans -8
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 52.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 53
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The New Orleans Saints are 9-12 ATS on the road since 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New Orleans hits the road after winning back-to-back home games, including a 23-20 victory over the San Francisco 49ers as 3.5-point favorites in Week 11, while going UNDER the betting total for the first time in five contests.\u00a0 The Saints will be playing their third game in 11 days, which is important to consider when looking over the pro football odds page.\u00a0 Defensively, the team held consecutive opponents under 200 yards for the first time since the 2000 campaign.\u00a0 New Orleans is 10-11 SU and 9-12 ATS on the road the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 12-9 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Saints are always a threat to win in any circumstance, considering quarterback Drew Brees is completing 68.2 percent of his passes and has thrown for 3,369 passing yards and 26 touchdowns.\u00a0 New Orleans is ranked fourth in the league in allowing just 305.4 yards per game, which is far superior to giving up 440.1 during the 2012 season.<\/p>\n

Atlanta is mired in a four-game losing streak, which includes a 41-28 defeat to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as one-point road underdogs Sunday, while going OVER the betting total for the first time in four contests.\u00a0 The Falcons are 18-16 against NFC South opponents since 2008, while they hold a 46-42 overall edge over the Saints in this particular series.\u00a0 The franchise has dropped five of the last six meetings in this rivalry\u2014allowing 363 yards or more in each of those affairs.\u00a0 Atlanta is 1-5 SUATS as underdogs of 3.5 to 9.5 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Falcons were averaging 64.3 rushing yards going into last week\u2019s game, but gained a season-high 152 yards against the Buccaneers.\u00a0 Atlanta is allowing 29.2 points per game, which is 29th in the league and can\u2019t be ignored when making your NFL betting picks in this primetime matchup.\u00a0 On the offensive end, quarterback Matt Ryan needs to regain his confidence, as he\u2019s thrown five touchdowns and nine interceptions in his last four contests.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Saints due to Thursday night winning teams covering the number nine out of 11 times this season.<\/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

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New Orleans Saints vs. Atlanta Falcons Thursday, 11\/21\/13, 8:25 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 New Orleans -7 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 New Orleans -8 Opening Total:\u00a0 52.5 Current Total:\u00a0 53 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker New Orleans hits the road after winning back-to-back home games, including a 23-20 victory over the San Francisco 49ers as 3.5-point favorites […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[123,1034,422,427,3717,31],"class_list":["post-31408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-drew-brees","tag-matt-ryan","tag-new-orleans-saints","tag-nfc-south","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31408","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=31408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31409,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31408\/revisions\/31409"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}