{"id":31700,"date":"2013-12-08T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T21:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=31700"},"modified":"2013-12-08T13:07:35","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T18:07:35","slug":"sunday-night-football-betting-preview-carolina-panthers-vs-new-orleans-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/sunday-night-football-betting-preview-carolina-panthers-vs-new-orleans-saints-31700\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Night Football Betting Preview: Carolina Panthers vs. New Orleans Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carolina Panthers vs. New Orleans Saints
\nSunday, 12\/8\/13, 8:30 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 New Orleans -3.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 New Orleans -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 44.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 46.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The New Orleans Saints are 11-1 SU as home favorites of 3.5 to 7 points since 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Carolina has gone 8-0 SU and 7-1 ATS in its last eight affairs, as it comes off a 27-6 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as 7.5-point home favorites last Sunday, while going UNDER the betting total for a fifth consecutive contest.\u00a0 \u201cThere is no roof, no sky,\u201d commented Panthers defensive coordinator Greg Hardy.\u00a0 \u201cThey feel like they can\u2019t be beat.\u201d\u00a0 The Panthers have won four straight on the road and were the last team to beat the Saints at the Superdome, which is important to consider when making your NFL betting picks.\u00a0 Carolina is 9-14 SU and 14-9 ATS as underdogs the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Panthers will need a huge performance out of starting quarterback Cam Newton, who went 18 of 29 for 263 yards with two touchdowns and two interceptions last week.\u00a0 Carolina has turned the ball over just seven times in its last eight games, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the NFL betting lines in Week 14.\u00a0 On the defensive side of the ball, leading pass rusher Charles Johnson is expected back on the field, as he\u2019s missed the last two games with a knee injury.<\/p>\n

New Orleans had its three-game winning streak snapped in a 34-7 blowout defeat to the Seattle Seahawks as 6.5-point road underdogs Monday night, while going UNDER the betting total for a third consecutive affair.\u00a0 The Saints haven\u2019t lost consecutive games in a single regular season under coach Sean Payton since 2009, while they\u2019ve averaged 33.2 points at home\u2014trailing only the Denver Broncos and Dallas Cowboys in that category.\u00a0 New Orleans is 11-1 SU and 10-2 ATS as home favorites of 3.5 to 7 points since 2011.<\/p>\n

The Saints have turned the ball over just 14 times this season, with quarterback Drew Brees piloting the offense.\u00a0 New Orleans has outscored opponents by a 199-95 margin in its six home wins during the 2013 campaign.\u00a0 Brees is just 287 yards shy of becoming the fifth player with 50,000 NFL passing yards.\u00a0 The franchise is 14-3 SU at home in prime-time games since Payton arrived in 2006.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Saints due to their 13-3 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

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Carolina Panthers vs. New Orleans Saints Sunday, 12\/8\/13, 8:30 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 New Orleans -3.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 New Orleans -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 44.5 Current Total:\u00a0 46.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Carolina has gone 8-0 SU and 7-1 ATS in its last eight affairs, as it comes off a 27-6 victory over the […]<\/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":[3365,279,1034,427,31,3570],"class_list":["post-31700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-cam-newton","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-drew-brees","tag-new-orleans-saints","tag-nfl","tag-sean-payton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31700","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=31700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31701,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31700\/revisions\/31701"}],"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=31700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}