{"id":9165,"date":"2010-10-17T02:41:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-17T07:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=9165"},"modified":"2010-10-17T02:41:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T07:41:52","slug":"nfl-picks-patriots-vs-ravens-game-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/nfl-picks-patriots-vs-ravens-game-predictions-9165\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Picks: Patriots Vs Ravens Game Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baltimore Ravens at New England Patriots, Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, MA
\nSunday, October 17, 2010, 1:00 pm EST, TV: CBS
\nOpening Line: Patriots -3
\nCurrent Line: Patriots -2.5
\nOpening Total: 46
\nCurrent Total: 45
\nMoney Line: Patriots -140 \/ Ravens +120<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Patriots
Ray Rice has helped the Ravens cover two of the last three meetings with the Patriots<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The New England Patriots (3-1) are coming off their bye week and hope to erase painful memories of their home playoff loss to the Baltimore Ravens (4-1) last year when they meet again in Foxborough on Sunday.\u00a0 The Patriots (-2.5 on the current NFL football spreads) have won 11 straight regular-season home games but were crushed 33-14 by the Ravens in the last meeting back in January, ending their postseason run.\u00a0 New England will no doubt be thinking about revenge in this spot while breaking in a new wide receiver following the departure of Randy Moss.<\/p>\n

The Pats dealt Moss to Minnesota just prior to the bye and then re-acquired Deion Branch from Seattle to take his place earlier in the week.\u00a0 Branch is very familiar with the team\u2019s offense and was named MVP of Super Bowl XXXIX when he caught 11 passes for from quarterback Tom Brady for 133 yards en route to a 24-21 victory.<\/p>\n

Brady endured his first and only home playoff loss against Baltimore and struggled mightily in that game.\u00a0 He completed 23 of 42 passes for 154 yards with two touchdowns and three interceptions and was also sacked three times by the Ravens for 22 yards.\u00a0 Brady has yet to throw for more than 258 yards this season and did not need to do much in a 42-14 rout of the Dolphins two weeks ago because his team scored a touchdown every possible way.<\/p>\n

Baltimore surprisingly ranks second in the NFL in pass defense, limiting the opposition to 156.6 yards per game.\u00a0 The Ravens had dealt with some key injuries in the defensive backfield before the season started but have rebounded nicely despite picking off only one pass this year.<\/p>\n

Offensively, it was Baltimore\u2019s running game that made a huge statement in the playoff win at New England the last time these two teams met.\u00a0\u00a0 Running back Ray Rice scored on an 83-yard touchdown run on the game\u2019s first offensive play and finished with 159 yards on 22 carries.\u00a0 Rice is coming off his first 100-yard game of the season in a 31-17 win over Denver last week, totaling 133 yards on 27 carries with two touchdowns.\u00a0 He had not rushed for more than 87 yards in the team\u2019s previous four games.<\/p>\n

Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco threw for only 34 yards in the last meeting with the Patriots but has a couple more weapons than he did in that game.\u00a0 Flacco has found some chemistry with new wide receivers Anquan Boldin and T.J. Houshmandzadeh, both of whom will test New England\u2019s young defense.<\/p>\n

Baltimore has covered two of the last three meetings with the Patriots and will be playing them for the third time in a little over a year.\u00a0 The OVER is 3-0 in the last three meetings and 4-0 in New England\u2019s games this season.<\/p>\n

If you are betting this game, be sure to check out the winning NFL picks packages we offer.\u00a0 We are likely passing on this game but have 5 strong plays for Sunday.\u00a0 You can also get free winners on our free nfl picks page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Baltimore Ravens at New England Patriots, Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, MA Sunday, October 17, 2010, 1:00 pm EST, TV: CBS Opening Line: Patriots -3 Current Line: Patriots -2.5 Opening Total: 46 Current Total: 45 Money Line: Patriots -140 \/ Ravens +120 The New England Patriots (3-1) are coming off their bye week and hope to erase […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":4284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[608,2539,2508,125,1930,1922,3393],"class_list":["post-9165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-football-betting","tag-free-nfl-pick","tag-new-england-patriots","tag-nfl-odds","tag-nfl-picks","tag-patriots-ravens-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9165","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\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9165"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9240,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9165\/revisions\/9240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}