{"id":36370,"date":"2014-11-21T17:45:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T22:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=36370"},"modified":"2014-11-21T17:53:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T22:53:01","slug":"nfl-week-12-picks-detroit-lions-vs-new-england-patriots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-week-12-picks-detroit-lions-vs-new-england-patriots-36370\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 12 Picks: Detroit Lions vs. New England Patriots"},"content":{"rendered":"

Detroit Lions vs. New England Patriots
\nSunday, 11\/23\/14, 1:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 New England -6
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 New England -7
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 48
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 47.5
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The New England Patriots are playing their best football of the 2014 campaign<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Detroit had its four-game win streak snapped last time out, as it dropped a 14-6 decision to the Arizona Cardinals as one-point road favorites Sunday, while going UNDER the betting total for the eighth time in 10 contests this season.\u00a0 The Lions will need to perform at a higher level offensively in hopes of pulling off an upset in this spot, which is important to consider when making your NFL betting picks, as they gained just 262 yards last time out.\u00a0 It\u2019s important to point out that quarterback Matthew Stafford is 0-15 SU when playing on the road in this career against teams that ended the season with a winning record.\u00a0 Detroit is 3-10 SU and 5-7-1 ATS as underdogs the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Lions own the league\u2019s best stop unit in defending the run thus far in 2014, which can\u2019t be ignored when looking over the NFL betting lines, as the group is holding foes to an average of 68.8 yards per game and 3.03 per carry.\u00a0 Detroit will try to stop New England\u2019s backfield tandem of Jonas Gray and recently re-signed LeGarrette Blount.\u00a0 Stafford needs some help from his own running game to create balance offensively, but the squad is averaging just 80.2 yards on the ground over its last six contests.<\/p>\n

New England is one of the hottest teams in the league, as it pushed its win streak to six games by picking up a 42-20 victory over the Indianapolis Colts as three-point road underdogs last week, while going OVER the betting total for a seventh consecutive affair.\u00a0 The Patriots are being led by future Hall of Fame quarterback Tom Brady, who has compiled a 115.8 passer rating during the team\u2019s recent run.\u00a0 New England is 7-1 SUATS as home favorites of 3.5 to 7 points since the start of the 2012 campaign.<\/p>\n

The Patriots have suffered some major injuries this season, but numerous players on the roster have stepped up, including Gray\u2019s contribution of rushing for 201 yards and four touchdowns on 37 carries last time out.\u00a0 New England may keep his workload to a minimum in this spot, considering he entered last week with just 32 career rushes as a professional.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Patriots due to their 5-0 ATS mark versus a team with a winning record.<\/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

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Detroit Lions vs. New England Patriots Sunday, 11\/23\/14, 1:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 New England -6 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 New England -7 Opening Total:\u00a0 48 Current Total:\u00a0 47.5 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Detroit had its four-game win streak snapped last time out, as it dropped a 14-6 decision to the Arizona Cardinals as one-point […]<\/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":[542,616,125,31,398],"class_list":["post-36370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-detroit-lions","tag-matthew-stafford","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl","tag-tom-brady"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36370","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=36370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36371,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36370\/revisions\/36371"}],"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=36370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}