{"id":31569,"date":"2013-11-30T21:59:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-01T02:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=31569"},"modified":"2013-11-30T21:59:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T02:59:08","slug":"new-england-patriots-vs-houston-texans-nfl-week-13-betting-odds-and-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/new-england-patriots-vs-houston-texans-nfl-week-13-betting-odds-and-picks-31569\/","title":{"rendered":"New England Patriots vs. Houston Texans: NFL Week 13 Betting Odds and Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

New England Patriots vs. Houston Texans
\nSunday, 12\/1\/13, 1:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 New England -7
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 New England -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 46
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 47.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker
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The New England Patriots are coming off a big win over the Denver Broncos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New England came back from a 24-point deficit to defeat the Denver Broncos 34-31 in overtime as 2.5-point home underdogs last Sunday night, which improved the team\u2019s record to 8-3 on the season.\u00a0 The Patriots are now guaranteed to finish the season with a record of .500 or better for the 13th consecutive year\u2014something to consider when looking over the pro football odds page.\u00a0 The franchise owns the NFL\u2019s best December record since 2001 with a 45-6 mark.\u00a0 New England is 8-2 SU and 6-2-2 ATS as road favorites of 3.5 to 7 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Patriots are 3-1 during the regular season against the Texans with Tom Brady under center, who has thrown for 959 yards and eight touchdowns with three interceptions in those affairs.\u00a0 New England also owns an all-time record of 82-47-1 against the teams that make up the AFC South\u2014the only division in which the team owns winning records against each representative.\u00a0 Brady needs 104 yards to reach 3,00 passing yards for the 11th time in his career.<\/p>\n

Houston has lost nine games in a row, including a 13-6 setback to the Jacksonville Jaguars as 10.5-point home favorites in Week 12, while going UNDER the betting total for the first time in four contests.\u00a0 The Texans are certainly disappointed about their results this season, considering they posted a franchise-best 12-4 mark just a season ago\u2014only to be eliminated in the divisional playoffs by the Patriots.\u00a0 Houston is 0-8 SU and 3-5 ATS as underdogs of 3.5 to 9.5 points since 2011, with no edge in terms of the betting total (4-4 Over\/Under).<\/p>\n

The Texans have a chance to get after Brady, as the Patriots have given up 31 sacks for a loss of 201 yards in 2013.\u00a0 Houston needs a big performance out of rookie signal-caller Case Keenum, who recorded a passer rating of 54.7 after going 18 of 34 for 169 yards and an interception against the Jaguars.\u00a0 Inconsistent play in the passing game has bogged down a potent running game\u2014averaging 81.0 yards on the ground over the last three weeks.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Texans due to their 18-8 ATS mark at home versus teams with a winning road record.<\/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":"

New England Patriots vs. Houston Texans Sunday, 12\/1\/13, 1:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 New England -7 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 New England -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 46 Current Total:\u00a0 47.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker New England came back from a 24-point deficit to defeat the Denver Broncos 34-31 in overtime as 2.5-point home underdogs last Sunday […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[2043,1120,125,31,398],"class_list":["post-31569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-case-keenum","tag-houston-texans","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-tom-brady"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31569","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=31569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31570,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31569\/revisions\/31570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}