{"id":31734,"date":"2013-12-11T15:04:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T20:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=31734"},"modified":"2013-12-11T15:04:32","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T20:04:32","slug":"nfl-week-15-picks-san-diego-chargers-vs-denver-broncos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-week-15-picks-san-diego-chargers-vs-denver-broncos-31734\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 15 Picks: San Diego Chargers vs. Denver Broncos"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Diego Chargers vs. Denver Broncos
\nThursday, 12\/12\/13, 8:25 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Denver -10.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Denver -10
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 52.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 55.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The San Diego Chargers are double-digit road underdogs against the Denver Broncos Thursday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

San Diego has alternated wins and losses over its last four games, as it comes off a 37-14 victory over the New York Giants as four-point home favorites in Week 14, while going OVER the betting total of 47.\u00a0 The Chargers scored on seven of their 10 offensive possessions, which was helped by running back Ryan Mathews running the ball a career-high 29 times, which is important to consider when making your NFL betting picks.\u00a0 Quarterback Philip Rivers benefited from the balanced attack\u2014posting a season-high 137.4 passer rating.\u00a0 San Diego is 7-2 SU and 6-3 ATS in the last four weeks of the regular season the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Chargers broke up a season-high 11 passes and intercepted two others against the Giants, while finishing the game with a season-high three takeaways.\u00a0 San Diego won the time-of-possession battle, 36:56 to 23:04, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the pro football odds page. \u00a0 Rivers needs to throw for four more scores to record his third-career 30-touchdown season.<\/p>\n

Denver has won five of its last six games, including a 51-28 victory over the Tennessee Titans as 13-point home favorites Sunday, while going OVER the betting total for a third consecutive affair.\u00a0 The Broncos have won 10 consecutive games against AFC West opponents, which has played a major part in the team\u2019s one-game lead over the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC West division standings.\u00a0 The franchise is the first one in league history with four players scoring at least 10 touchdowns.\u00a0 Denver is 4-1 SUATS as home favorites of 7.5 to 10 points the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 4-1 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Broncos lead all teams in averaging 39.6 points and 465.6 yards per game, with the offensive line playing a big role in that success\u2014allowing just 15 sacks on the season.\u00a0 Denver has scored 61 offensive touchdowns on 168 possessions through 14 weeks this season, which leads to a league-high 36.3 percent rate in that statistical category.\u00a0 Quarterback Peyton Manning\u2019s 45 touchdown passes are six shy of Tom Brady\u2019s single-season record that was set in 2007.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Chargers due to their 5-0-4 ATS mark in their last nine trips to Denver.<\/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":"

San Diego Chargers vs. Denver Broncos Thursday, 12\/12\/13, 8:25 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Denver -10.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Denver -10 Opening Total:\u00a0 52.5 Current Total:\u00a0 55.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker San Diego has alternated wins and losses over its last four games, as it comes off a 37-14 victory over the New York Giants […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":17244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[2584,570,31,282,1035,298],"class_list":["post-31734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-afc-west","tag-denver-broncos","tag-nfl","tag-peyton-manning","tag-philip-rivers","tag-san-diego-chargers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31734","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=31734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31736,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31734\/revisions\/31736"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}