{"id":8898,"date":"2010-10-09T21:00:02","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T02:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=8898"},"modified":"2010-10-09T20:59:12","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T01:59:12","slug":"st-louis-rams-at-detroit-lions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/st-louis-rams-at-detroit-lions-8898\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Louis Rams at Detroit Lions Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

St. Louis Rams at Detroit Lions
\nSunday, 10\/10\/10, 1:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 FOX
\nOpening Point Spread: Detroit -3
\nCurrent Betting Line: Detroit -3
\nOpening Total: 42
\nCurrent Total: 42.5<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"St. Louis is searching to win three straight games for the first time in four years taking on the Lions after going 1-15 last season.\u00a0 \u201cIf we continue on the track we\u2019re on and we continue to improve each week, I think we can definitely compete for this division,\u201d rookie quarterback Sam Bradford said.\u00a0 Both of the Rams previous wins have come at Edward Jones Dome and will now look to win on the road after benefiting from playing three of their first four games in St. Louis.\u00a0 After being outscored 701-280 in the second half over their their last 50 games, the squad outscored the Redskins and Seahawks by a 26-3 margin over the last two weeks.\u00a0 St. Louis is 3-1 ATS as an underdog this season and the total is 1-3 O\/U in those games.<\/p>\n

The Rams must protect Bradford in hopes of pulling off a victory, especially facing an opponent that has collected 13 sacks and 11 of those coming from defensive linemen.\u00a0 \u201cI think their front is very good,\u201d Bradford stated.\u00a0 \u201cBut they cause a lot of problems with what they do up front.\u201d\u00a0 Turnovers is also going to be a key in this contest with the Rams racking up 10 takeaways in the first four games with no less than two in any of those contests.\u00a0 On the flip side, the Lions have turned the ball over 11 times with four fumbles lost and seven interceptions.\u00a0 St. Louis has been plagued by penalties at times this season, as they have 27 infractions for 272 yards, which is the 10th-most in the league.<\/p>\n

Detroit is 0-4 on the season and has played three of its first four games on the road, but the team is enthusiastic entering this important contest.\u00a0 \u201cObviously, our record is 0-4, but I felt like we played good enough to be at least 3-1 at this point,\u201d linebacker Julian Peterson said.\u00a0 The Lions went 2-14 last season and have dropped games by five, three and two points this year.\u00a0 Though the Lions met the Rams last year at Ford Field, many players say they haven\u2019t watched much film of that contest due to the amount of chances on both sides of the ball for both teams.\u00a0 \u201cThey have a lot of the same personnel as last year.\u00a0 What they are is very consistent,\u201d said head coach Jim Schwartz.\u00a0 The team is 1-0 ATS at home this season, but 5-12 ATS at Ford Field over the last three years.<\/p>\n

The Lions are currently under the direction of backup quarterback Shaun Hill after second-year starter Matthew Stafford went down with a shoulder injury.\u00a0 Since Hill took over in Week 2, Detroit is sixth in the NFL in offense with 401.3 yards per game.\u00a0 \u201cWhen we\u2019re rolling, I think we\u2019re one of the best offenses in the league,\u201d running back Jahvid Best said.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019ve got to stop shooting ourselves in the foot with either penalties or mistakes.\u201d\u00a0 A young team is hoping to turn things around for a franchise that has gone 3-41 over the last 44 games, the worst 44-game stretch in NFL history.<\/p>\n

Bettors will definitely make note of the Rams 4-0 ATS record in their last four games as a road underdog of 0.5-3.0 points, while the Lions are 16-36-1 in their last 53 games as a favorite.\u00a0 Maddux Sports is on a 76% NFL Picks run and has 5 winners lined up for Sunday.\u00a0 Get this weeks point spread winners on our NFL football picks page of the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

St. Louis Rams at Detroit Lions Sunday, 10\/10\/10, 1:00 PM EDT, TV:\u00a0 FOX Opening Point Spread: Detroit -3 Current Betting Line: Detroit -3 Opening Total: 42 Current Total: 42.5 St. Louis is searching to win three straight games for the first time in four years taking on the Lions after going 1-15 last season.\u00a0 \u201cIf […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[542,3333,2828,624,616,623,3334,863],"class_list":["post-8898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-detroit-lions","tag-ford-field","tag-jahvid-best","tag-jim-schwartz","tag-matthew-stafford","tag-sam-bradford","tag-shaun-hill","tag-st-louis-rams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8898","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=8898"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8900,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8898\/revisions\/8900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}