{"id":31686,"date":"2013-12-08T10:22:37","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T15:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=31686"},"modified":"2013-12-08T10:22:37","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T15:22:37","slug":"minnesota-vikings-vs-baltimore-ravens-nfl-week-14-betting-odds-and-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/minnesota-vikings-vs-baltimore-ravens-nfl-week-14-betting-odds-and-picks-31686\/","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Vikings vs. Baltimore Ravens: NFL Week 14 Betting Odds and Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minnesota Vikings vs. Baltimore Ravens
\nSunday, 12\/8\/13, 1:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Baltimore -7
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Baltimore -6.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 43
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 41.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Vikings<\/a>
The Minnesota Vikings are led by RB Adrian Peterson on offense<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Minnesota hits the road after picking up a 23-20 overtime victory over the Chicago Bears as 2.5-point home favorites in Week 13, as it continues to out gain opponents on the ground.\u00a0 The Vikings will need a huge game out of star running back Adrian Peterson, who set season highs with 211 yards on 35 carries last Sunday, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your pro football picks.\u00a0 Minnesota is 4-5 ATS as road underdogs of 3.5 to 7 points the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 5-4 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Vikings are expected to start Matt Cassel under center for the first time since Oct. 13, as Christian Ponder continues to deal with post-concussion symptoms.\u00a0 Minnesota will likely feature Peterson on the ground, as he leads the league with 1,208 rushing yards.\u00a0 He ran for 143 yards in a 33-31 home victory over Baltimore in the last series meeting in 2009.<\/p>\n

Baltimore has won three of its last four games, with its defense leading the way\u2014allowing just 16.9 points a contest dating back to Week 2.\u00a0 The Ravens are two games back of the Cincinnati Bengals in the AFC North standings, which is important to consider when looking over the NFL betting lines.\u00a0 The franchise is a dominating 10-1 SU at home versus NFC opponents under head coach John Harbaugh, while it has compiled a 26-6-1 SU all-time record in that situation in its history.\u00a0 Baltimore is 6-1-1 ATS as home favorites of 3.5 to 7 points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Ravens have posted a 26-4 record at M&T Bank Stadium since 2010, which is the second-best mark in the league over that span behind only the New England Patriots.\u00a0 Offensively, the team ranks 29th in the league in averaging just 309.0 yards per game, as it continues to struggle in the running game.\u00a0 Quarterback Joe Flacco may be able to move the football against Minnesota\u2014a foe that ranks 30th in surrendering 407.6 yards per game.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Ravens due to their 6-2 ATS mark in their last eight home games.<\/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. Baltimore Ravens Sunday, 12\/8\/13, 1:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Baltimore -7 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Baltimore -6.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 43 Current Total:\u00a0 41.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Minnesota hits the road after picking up a 23-20 overtime victory over the Chicago Bears as 2.5-point home favorites in Week 13, as it continues […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[393,608,396,2842,73,31],"class_list":["post-31686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-adrian-peterson","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-joe-flacco","tag-mt-bank-stadium","tag-minnesota-vikings","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31686","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=31686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31688,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31686\/revisions\/31688"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}