{"id":31960,"date":"2013-12-22T10:47:19","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T15:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=31960"},"modified":"2013-12-22T10:47:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T15:47:19","slug":"nfl-week-16-predictions-new-orleans-saints-vs-carolina-panthers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-week-16-predictions-new-orleans-saints-vs-carolina-panthers-31960\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 16 Predictions: New Orleans Saints vs. Carolina Panthers"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Orleans Saints vs. Carolina Panthers
\nSunday, 12\/22\/13, 1:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Carolina -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Carolina -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 45.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 44.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Carolina Panthers are 3-4 SUATS as home favorites of three or fewer points the last two-plus seasons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New Orleans has alternated wins and losses over its last four games, as it looks to bounce back from a 27-16 defeat to the St. Louis Rams as 6.5-point road favorites last Sunday, while going UNDER the betting total for a fifth consecutive contest.\u00a0 The Saints have the opportunity to win the NFC South Division title and clinch the No. 2 seed in the playoffs with a victory in this spot, which is important to consider when making your NFL betting predictions.\u00a0 The franchise is 3-4 SU on the road this season, including a 1-4 mark when its opponent scores first.\u00a0 New Orleans is 5-7 ATS as an underdog the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Saints are aiming for a pass-run ratio of 60-40 in this affair, as they\u2019ve become too reliant on quarterback Drew Brees away from home, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the pro football odds page.\u00a0 Brees threw for 313 yards and four touchdowns against the Panthers in a 31-13 victory as three-point home favorites two weeks ago, but seven of his 10 interceptions this season have come on the road.<\/p>\n

Carolina is in control of its own destiny in regards to the division, as it comes off a 30-20 win as 10-point home favorites against the New York Jets in Week 15, while going OVER the betting total for the first time in six contests.\u00a0 The Panthers will need to protect signal-caller Cam Newton, who was sacked fifth times at New Orleans, but he\u2019s gone down just 10 times in seven games at Bank of America Stadium.\u00a0 Carolina is 3-4 SUATS as home favorites of three or fewer points since the 2011 campaign.<\/p>\n

The Panthers have won six consecutive games at home by an average of 18.7 points.\u00a0 Newton has averaged 9.35 yards per passing attempt in splitting a pair of games at this venue against the Saints.\u00a0 Carolina has averaged 178.5 yards rushing in its last 10 games versus Sunday\u2019s opponent, but it ran the ball just 13 times in the first meeting.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total, as the UNDER is 8-2 in the last 10 meetings in Carolina.<\/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 Orleans Saints vs. Carolina Panthers Sunday, 12\/22\/13, 1:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Carolina -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Carolina -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 45.5 Current Total:\u00a0 44.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker New Orleans has alternated wins and losses over its last four games, as it looks to bounce back from a 27-16 defeat to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[7902,3365,279,1034,427,3717,31],"class_list":["post-31960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-bank-of-american-stadium","tag-cam-newton","tag-carolina-panthers","tag-drew-brees","tag-new-orleans-saints","tag-nfc-south","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31960","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=31960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31961,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31960\/revisions\/31961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}