{"id":15177,"date":"2009-10-30T16:18:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T21:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=15177"},"modified":"2009-10-30T16:18:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-30T21:18:51","slug":"week-8-nfl-matchups-lines-preview-301009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/sportsbooks\/week-8-nfl-matchups-lines-preview-301009\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 8 Betting Lines \u2013 Week 8 Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Grizzled Gunslinger vs. Prot\u00e9g\u00e9, Take 2<\/h2>\n<p>The old, grizzled gunslinger is going to mosey back into town for a showdown with his former prot\u00e9g\u00e9 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings visit Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field on Sunday (4:15 pm ET, FOX), an NFL matchup many Football Betting fans have had circled on their calendars since the schedule was released.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/handicappers\/\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO VIEW OUR WEEK 8 CAPPERS PICKS FROM THE TOP NFL EXPERTS ONLINE &#8212;&#8211;&gt;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Packers are a 3-point favorite and the over\/under total is at 47 in NFL Betting Odds at betED.com.<\/p>\n<p>As most NFL Football Betting fans know, Sunday\u2019s tilt in Green Bay is a rematch of the NFC North rivals\u2019 previous meeting this season in a thrilling Monday Night Football matchup.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/go\/bovada\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"margin: 1px; border: 3px solid #ffffff;\" src=\"http:\/\/banners.beted.com\/images\/banners\/NFL\/NFLGEN1M250X250.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Favre and his new teammates won that round by a 30-23 count as 5-point home favorites on Oct. 5.<\/p>\n<p>On the injury front, both Favre (hip) and Rodgers (foot) have had limited practice time this week but both will play Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The outcomes of recent Minnesota-Green Bay games have been about as even as you can get, with each winning five of the past 10 and each covering the spread five times.<\/p>\n<p>Minnesota will be in rebound-mode, as the Vikings are coming off their first setback of the season last Sunday. Minnesota lost 27-17 to the Pittsburgh Steelers as a 6-point road underdog, with the score going under the total of 46.5.<\/p>\n<p>Favre passed for 334 yards with an interception and RB Adrian Peterson rushed for 69 yards and a TD on 18 carries.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Packers beat the Cleveland Browns 31-3 as a 9-point favorite, with the score falling under the over\/under total of 41.5.<\/p>\n<p>Rodgers passed for 246 yards with three touchdowns for Green Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Green Bay (4-2 SU and ATS) has won two straight. Minnesota is 6-1 SU and 4-3 ATS.<\/p>\n<h4>Check out NFL Lines for all the Week 8 games.<\/h4>\n<p><strong>SUNDAY NOVEMBER 1, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Seattle Seahawks vs. Dallas Cowboys<br \/>\nSt. Louis Rams vs. Detroit Lions<br \/>\nMiami Dolphins vs. New York Jets<br \/>\nSan Francisco 49ers vs. Indianapolis Colts<br \/>\nCleveland Browns vs. Chicago Bears<br \/>\nHouston Texans vs. Buffalo Bills<br \/>\nNew York Giants vs. Philadelphia Eagles<br \/>\nDenver Broncos vs. Baltimore Ravens<br \/>\nOakland Raiders vs. San Diego Chargers<br \/>\nJacksonville Jaguars vs. Tennessee Titans<br \/>\nMinnesota Vikings vs. Green Bay Packers<br \/>\nCarolina Panthers vs. Arizona Cardinals<\/p>\n<p><strong>MONDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Atlanta Falcons vs. New Orleans Saints<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/go\/bovada\">Click here NOW to check out betED.com for tons of WEEK 8 NFL Betting options.<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beted weighs in with their look at the Week 8 nfl betting matchups. A key betting matchup is Favre returning to Lambeau to play the Packers.  The old, grizzled gunslinger is going to mosey back into town for a showdown with his former prot\u00e9g\u00e9 on Sunday&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[19425,159,1376,66502,802,840,868,17031,3691,3687,19352,19426,3851,19427,19374,19428],"class_list":["post-15177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sportsbooks","tag-bet-the-nfl-week-8-matchups","tag-beted","tag-beted-sportsbook","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-betting","tag-nfl-odds","tag-nfl-sportsbook","tag-nfl-sportsbook-online","tag-nfl-week-8","tag-nfl-week-8-lines","tag-nfl-week-8-matchups","tag-week-8-betting","tag-week-8-nfl-preview","tag-week-8-nfl-schedule","tag-week-8-preview","tag-week-8-season"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16050,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15177\/revisions\/16050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}