{"id":35242,"date":"2014-09-07T08:57:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T13:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35242"},"modified":"2014-09-07T08:57:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T13:57:45","slug":"nfl-week-1-picks-new-england-patriots-vs-miami-dolphins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-week-1-picks-new-england-patriots-vs-miami-dolphins-35242\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 1 Picks: New England Patriots vs. Miami Dolphins"},"content":{"rendered":"

New England Patriots vs. Miami Dolphins
\nSunday, 9\/7\/14, 1:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 New England -3.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 New England -4
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 47
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 46.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The UNDER is 4-0 in the last four meetings between the New England Patriots and Miami Dolphins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New England travels to Miami to open up the 2014 NFL regular season, as it attempts to win its 11th consecutive season opener, which is important to consider when looking over the pro football odds.\u00a0 The Patriots own a 63-17 record in regular season play against AFC East opponents since 2001\u2014the best intra-division record of any team in the league over that period of time.\u00a0 New England is 17-3 SU and 13-6 ATS as favorites of 3.5 to 9.5 points the last two-plus seasons, with the OVER going 14-6 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Patriots are led by quarterback Tom Brady, who is hoping to eclipse the 4,000-yard mark in passing for a fourth consecutive season, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your pro football picks. \u00a0 New England has plenty of weapons around him, including tight end Rob Gronkowski, who didn\u2019t participate in any of the four preseason contests.\u00a0 Brady owns a 17-7 SU record in this series, including a 6-6 mark when playing in South Beach.<\/p>\n

Miami is coming off a tumultuous 8-8 season a year ago, which included a league investigation of a bullying scandal involving former offensive linemen Jonathan Martin.\u00a0 The Dolphins will need to do a better job of keeping signal-caller Ryan Tannehill upright, as he was sacked a NFL-high 58 times in 2013.\u00a0 The franchise brought in former Philadelphia Eagles quarterbacks coach Bill Lazor to run the offense.\u00a0 Miami is 9-11 SU and 11-7-2 ATS as underdogs the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Dolphins have dropped seven of the last eight meetings in this series, but they earned a 24-20 victory as 2.5-point home favorites to close out the 2013-14 regular season series.\u00a0 Defensively, Miami will need to limit Gronkowski inside the red zone, as he\u2019s not expected to play 50 or 60 offensive snaps for the visitor.\u00a0 A rotation of safeties Louis Delmas and Jimmy Wilson will be in charge of that assignment.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total, as the UNDER is 4-0 in the last four meetings in this rivalry.<\/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 England Patriots vs. Miami Dolphins Sunday, 9\/7\/14, 1:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 New England -3.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 New England -4 Opening Total:\u00a0 47 Current Total:\u00a0 46.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker New England travels to Miami to open up the 2014 NFL regular season, as it attempts to win its 11th consecutive season […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":29526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[540,320,125,31,7178,3711,398],"class_list":["post-35242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-afc-east","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-rob-gronkowski","tag-ryan-tannehill","tag-tom-brady"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35242","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=35242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35243,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35242\/revisions\/35243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}