{"id":35187,"date":"2014-09-04T15:38:15","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T20:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35187"},"modified":"2014-09-04T15:38:15","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T20:38:15","slug":"new-orleans-saints-vs-atlanta-falcons-nfl-week-1-betting-odds-and-picks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/new-orleans-saints-vs-atlanta-falcons-nfl-week-1-betting-odds-and-picks-2-35187\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans Saints vs. Atlanta Falcons: NFL Week 1 Betting Odds and Picks"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Orleans Saints vs. Atlanta Falcons
\nSunday, 9\/4\/14, 1:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 New Orleans -3
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 New Orleans -3
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 51.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 51.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The home team has covered the number in the last five meetings in this series<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New Orleans has compiled a 48-16 record in Sean Payton\u2019s last four seasons on the sidelines, which is important to consider when making your Week 1 NFL betting picks, especially since the franchise welcomes back a majority of its key contributors from last year.\u00a0 The Saints have one of the best quarterbacks in the league in Drew Brees, who led the NFC with a 68.6 completion percentage, 5,162 passing yards and 39 touchdowns in 2013.\u00a0 New Orleans is 1-2 ATS as road favorites of three or fewer points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Saints aren\u2019t worried about Brees heading into the 2014 campaign despite the fact that he had fewer reps this preseason due to a injury, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the NFL betting lines.\u00a0 In two meetings against Atlanta a year ago, the New Orleans signal-caller threw for 635 yards and four scores in a pair of victories.\u00a0 There\u2019s no doubt that the biggest weapon in the passing game is tight end Jimmy Graham , who had 86 catches for 1,215 yards and a career-high 16 touchdowns a year ago.<\/p>\n

Atlanta has opened a season against New Orleans seven times in the history of the series\u2014proving victorious in six of those contests.\u00a0 The Falcons hope to be much improved on the defensive side of the ball, as they ranked near the bottom in allowing an average of 27.7 points and 379.4 yards per game last year.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that Sunday\u2019s opponent averaged just 16.7 points in dropping five of its final six road games in 2013.\u00a0 Atlanta is 1-1 SUATS as home underdogs of three or fewer points the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan looks to put last year\u2019s mediocre performance behind him, as he threw a career-worst 17 interceptions and was sacked a career-high 44 times.\u00a0 Atlanta has plenty of weapons at his disposal as long as wide receivers Julio Jones and Roddy White can maintain their health.\u00a0 Running back Steven Jackson is also an important player to watch, but he\u2019s been battling a hamstring injury since the start of training camp.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Falcons due to the home team covering the number in five consecutive meetings.<\/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. Atlanta Falcons Sunday, 9\/4\/14, 1:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 New Orleans -3 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 New Orleans -3 Opening Total:\u00a0 51.5 Current Total:\u00a0 51.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker New Orleans has compiled a 48-16 record in Sean Payton\u2019s last four seasons on the sidelines, which is important to consider when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":34980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[123,1034,422,427,31],"class_list":["post-35187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-atlanta-falcons","tag-drew-brees","tag-matt-ryan","tag-new-orleans-saints","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35187","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=35187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35188,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35187\/revisions\/35188"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}