{"id":35753,"date":"2014-10-12T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=35753"},"modified":"2014-10-12T10:00:25","modified_gmt":"2014-10-12T15:00:25","slug":"nfl-week-6-picks-pittsburgh-steelers-vs-cleveland-browns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-week-6-picks-pittsburgh-steelers-vs-cleveland-browns-35753\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 6 Picks: Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Cleveland Browns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Cleveland Browns
\nSunday, 10\/12\/14, 1:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Cleveland PK
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Cleveland -1.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 46.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 46
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Pittsburgh Steelers have owned the Cleveland Browns with Ben Roethlisberger under center<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Pittsburgh has alternated wins and losses in its first five games this season, as it looks to build off a 17-9 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars as six-point road favorites last Sunday, while winning the statistical battle for a third consecutive affair.\u00a0 The Steelers earned a 30-27 win over the Browns as 5.5-point home favorites in their season opener, which is important to consider when making your Week 6 NFL betting picks, while going OVER the betting total of 41.5.\u00a0 Pittsburgh is 6-7 SU and 7-5-1 ATS as underdogs the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Steelers surrendered 191 rushing yards in the first meeting, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the NFL betting lines, but they\u2019ve limited their last three opponents to 161 yards on the ground on 45 carries.\u00a0 Pittsburgh quarterback Ben Roethlisberger enters with a dynamite 18-1 SU record in this AFC North series\u2014putting together a 101.5 passer rating in coming up victorious in the last eight meetings in this rivalry series.<\/p>\n

Cleveland has also fallen in a alternating pattern in putting together a 2-2 SU and 2-0-1 ATS record, as it tallied a 29-28 come-from-behind victory over the Tennessee Titans last week.\u00a0 The Browns will certainly be challenged by Roethlisberger defensively, as he accounts for 404.0 yards per game, but the stop unit needs to play big in the red zone, with today\u2019s opponent coming away with just seven touchdowns in 16 trips inside the 20-yard line.\u00a0 Cleveland is 6-9 SU and 4-9-2 ATS in games where the betting line is +3 to -3, with the UNDER going 9-6 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Browns are 5-2 SU when starting Brian Hoyer under center, as he has managed to toss six touchdowns and just a single interception.\u00a0 The former Ohio State Buckeyes star is at his best in the final 30 minutes of games, as he\u2019s put together a 103.8 second-half passer rating that ranks behind just six players in the league in that all-important statistical category.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely play the total, as the UNDER is 5-2 in the last seven meetings in this series.<\/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":"

Pittsburgh Steelers vs. Cleveland Browns Sunday, 10\/12\/14, 1:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Cleveland PK Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Cleveland -1.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 46.5 Current Total:\u00a0 46 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Pittsburgh has alternated wins and losses in its first five games this season, as it looks to build off a 17-9 victory over the Jacksonville […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[2583,349,788,360,31,346],"class_list":["post-35753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-afc-north","tag-ben-roethlisberger","tag-brian-hoyer","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-nfl","tag-pittsburgh-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35753","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=35753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35754,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35753\/revisions\/35754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}