{"id":31690,"date":"2013-12-08T10:51:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T15:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=31690"},"modified":"2013-12-08T10:51:30","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T15:51:30","slug":"pro-football-picks-kansas-city-chiefs-vs-washington-redskins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/pro-football-picks-kansas-city-chiefs-vs-washington-redskins-31690\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Football Picks: Kansas City Chiefs vs. Washington Redskins"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kansas City Chiefs vs. Washington Redskins
\nSunday, 12\/8\/13, 1:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kansas City -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Kansas City -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 44
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 44.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Washington Redskins can’t wait for the 2013 NFL season to come to an end<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Kansas City is mired in a three-game losing streak, which includes a 35-28 defeat to the Denver Broncos as five-point home underdogs in Week 13, while it has lost the statistical battle in five consecutive contests.\u00a0 The Chiefs are 3-0 versus NFL East teams during the 2013 campaign, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your pro football picks Sunday afternoon.\u00a0 With four weeks to play in the regular season, the franchise is tied for the second-best record in the AFC with the New England Patriots.\u00a0 Kansas City is 3-7 SUATS in December the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Chiefs have benefited greatly from a plus-14 turnover margin this season, which is far better than the Redskins entering with a minus-two in that particular category.\u00a0 Offensively, the team is ninth in the league in averaging 24.8 points a contest, but 24th in yards per play.\u00a0 On the other side of the football, the defense didn\u2019t allow more than 283 passing yards in the first nine weeks, but has allowed an average of 371.0 in the last three.<\/p>\n

Washington has been mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, which has the front office and locker room focused on the future.\u00a0 The Redskins certainly have the ability of getting after Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith, who is completing just 46 percent of his passes when under pressure, as Brian Orakpo has tallied 5.5 sacks in the past four games.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that the team has started with the worst average field position in the league, while Kansas City leads that all-important but forgotten category.\u00a0 Washington is 1-8 SUATS as an underdog this season.<\/p>\n

The Redskins will need to focus on shutting down the Chiefs running attack\u2014specifically Jamaal Charles.\u00a0 Washington will also need a big performance from second-year quarterback Robert Griffin III, who became the fourth player since 1970 to throw for at least 3,000 yards in each of his first two professional seasons.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total in this affair, as the UNDER is 7-1-1 in the Chiefs\u2019 last nine road 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":"

Kansas City Chiefs vs. Washington Redskins Sunday, 12\/8\/13, 1:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Kansas City -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Kansas City -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 44 Current Total:\u00a0 44.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Kansas City is mired in a three-game losing streak, which includes a 35-28 defeat to the Denver Broncos as five-point home underdogs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[1173,303,31,3697,345],"class_list":["post-31690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-alex-smith","tag-kansas-city-chiefs","tag-nfl","tag-robert-griffin-iii","tag-washington-redskins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31690","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=31690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31691,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31690\/revisions\/31691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}