{"id":36511,"date":"2014-11-29T19:15:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-30T00:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=36511"},"modified":"2014-11-29T19:19:15","modified_gmt":"2014-11-30T00:19:15","slug":"nfl-week-13-picks-new-orleans-saints-vs-pittsburgh-steelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-week-13-picks-new-orleans-saints-vs-pittsburgh-steelers-36511\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 13 Picks: New Orleans Saints vs. Pittsburgh Steelers"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Orleans Saints vs. Pittsburgh Steelers
\nSunday, 11\/30\/14, 1:00 PM EST
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Pittsburgh -4
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Pittsburgh -5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 53
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 55
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Pittsburgh Steelers have the best home offense in the league entering Sunday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New Orleans looks to snap its recent 0-3 SUATS run, which includes a 34-27 defeat to the Baltimore Ravens as 2.5-point home favorites last week, while it has captured the statistical battle in eight of its last 10 contests.\u00a0 The Saints have really struggled to get off the field defensively in their last two affairs, which can\u2019t be ignored when making your Week 13 NFL betting picks, as opponents have converted 10-of-15 third downs of seven or more yards.\u00a0 New Orleans is 6-5 SU and 4-7 ATS in November the last two-plus seasons, with the UNDER going 6-5 in that situation.<\/p>\n

The Saints are going to find it difficult to defend the Steelers with three safeties being lost for the season, which is important to consider when looking over the NFL betting lines, especially since opposing quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has totaled 12 passing touchdowns over his last two games at Heinz Field.\u00a0 New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees hasn\u2019t been able to get things going down field, with the offense tallying just 19 plays of 25 or more yards for the entire 2014 campaign.<\/p>\n

Pittsburgh has won four of its last five games, including a 27-24 victory over the Tennessee Titans as seven-point road favorites on Nov. 17, while going OVER the betting total for the fourth time in five contests.\u00a0 The Steelers have the best offense in the league when playing at home, as they enter averaging an incredible 447.2 yards per game, with Roethlisberger connecting on 19 plays of 25-plus yards in the Steel City.\u00a0 Pittsburgh is 8-8 SU and 7-9 ATS versus teams with a losing record the last two-plus seasons.<\/p>\n

The Steelers have one of the best playmakers in the league in wide receiver Antonio Brown, who paces the league with 88 catches on the year, which is a big reason why Roethlisberger has thrown 24 overall touchdowns.\u00a0 Pittsburgh will have to play at a high level defensively, as New Orleans is averaging 418.0 yards when playing on the road despite dropping four of five games away from the Mercedes-Benz Superdome.<\/p>\n

Sports bettors will likely back the Steelers due to the Saints being 0-2 ATS versus AFC North opponents.<\/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. Pittsburgh Steelers Sunday, 11\/30\/14, 1:00 PM EST Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Pittsburgh -4 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Pittsburgh -5 Opening Total:\u00a0 53 Current Total:\u00a0 55 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker New Orleans looks to snap its recent 0-3 SUATS run, which includes a 34-27 defeat to the Baltimore Ravens as 2.5-point home favorites last […]<\/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":[349,1034,3977,427,31,346],"class_list":["post-36511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-ben-roethlisberger","tag-drew-brees","tag-heinz-field","tag-new-orleans-saints","tag-nfl","tag-pittsburgh-steelers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36511","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=36511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36512,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36511\/revisions\/36512"}],"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=36511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}