{"id":16809,"date":"2009-12-13T02:51:18","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T07:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=16809"},"modified":"2009-12-13T02:51:18","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T07:51:18","slug":"wk14-detroit-lions-vs-baltimore-ravens-picks-lines-131209","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/nfl\/wk14-detroit-lions-vs-baltimore-ravens-picks-lines-131209\/","title":{"rendered":"NFL Week 14: Lions vs. Ravens Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bubble Buster \u2013 Lions To Upset The Baltimore Ravens<\/h2>\n

Every week, the oddsmakers trot out these mega spreads whenever a \u201cgood team\u201d plays a \u201cbad team\u201d and at least once a week, one of the underdogs gives the favorite a serious run for its money. It\u2019s happened with the Browns, Bucs, Raiders, Chiefs and Rams. Now it\u2019s the Lions\u2019 turn, who enjoy one major advantage over the Ravens \u2013 Calvin Johnson.<\/p>\n

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Megatron has been awfully quiet this season, and a large reason is because the Lions have just two wins this entire season. What I hate about Baltimore is this dizzying notion that their defense is as good as it used to be. The fact is that it\u2019s not and it hasn\u2019t been all season. The Ravens have given up 215.0 yards per game passing, and they\u2019ve been ripped apart by injuries to key players. Terrell Suggs will likely miss Sunday\u2019s game, and he\u2019ll be joined on the sidelines by Ed Reed, the safety stud for the Ravens. Baltimore is riding the coattails of a defense that existed well before this year, and they\u2019ve been caught under the sports betting bus with a 1-4 ATS record in five games.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not like the Lions have a terrific record on their own end. They\u2019re just 1-5-1 ATS in their last 7 games and have the worst overall defense in the league. They allow 29.8 points per game, the most by any team in the league and on the road they surrender 282.5 yards passing and d 123.5 yards rushing. The thing about Detroit\u2019s offense, however, is that it\u2019s been quietly humming along with the development of the Stafford-Calvin connection and a very humble season from running-back Kevin Smith. If any major underdog in the entire league has a chance of seriously upsetting the playoff hopes of a bubble team this weekend, I\u2019m handing it to the Lions. [soliloquy id=”82219″]<\/p>\n

Detroit Lions (2-9) vs. Baltimore Ravens (6-6)
\nSunday, December 1st
\nM&T Bank Stadium, Baltimore — 1:00pm EST<\/strong><\/p>\n

NFL Betting Line: Baltimore -13.5 (39.5)<\/p>\n

Getting back to Smith, who has only broken the 100-yard ceiling once this year, he is underrated in terms of his pass catching ability. He has 39 catches for 396 yards, giving him an average of 10.2 yards per catch. Baltimore linebackers, especially without Suggs, have not been able to stop pass-catching threats out of the backfield all that well and haven\u2019t really had to adjust to that type of player since they haven\u2019t faced one since playing at Minnesota against Adrian Peterson.<\/p>\n

Without Ed Reed to secure the safety position, Baltimore is extremely vulnerable. We\u2019ve seen the exact same type of problem in Pittsburgh, where the Steelers have literally fallen in to the gutter face first without Troy Polamalu. Without Ed Reed, Calvin Johnson will have all sorts of daylight in Baltimore and Stafford has shown a keen sense of locating Megatron when he desperately needs him.<\/p>\n

So what about Joe Flacco and Ray Rice? Well let\u2019s look at Flacco last five games and it\u2019ll give you a good idea of where my critique on Mr. Delaware is going. He\u2019s averaged 206.4 yards, totaled two touchdowns and amassed 6 interceptions. Why he\u2019s still considered elite is not because of his numbers; again it\u2019s because of what he did last year. Well it\u2019s 2009, and as of late we haven\u2019t seen Joe do much of anything special. Rice is still a very special player, but he\u2019ll be hounded by Ernie Sims and a very fast linebacking corps that is sneakily efficient at homing in on the run.<\/p>\n

Detroit has the same stats that I have access to, and knowing that Joe is not capable taking a game in to his own hands, they\u2019ll focus nearly all of their energy on containing Ray Rice and leaving the offense in the capable hands of Matt Ryan. Yes, I know this is a game between Baltimore and Detroit, but this one has upset written all over it. This Ravens team has been overachieving and garnering far too much love from the analysts. They\u2019re going to get a reality check when Detroit lands the biggest upset of the week. If anything, Detroit can cover this large spread so take the line, but if you\u2019re feeling ballsy, then go for the huge moneyline.<\/p>\n

Free Pick: Detroit +13.5 (UNDER)<\/strong>
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The Detroit Lions and the Baltimore Ravens will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at M&T Bank Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Ravens listed as 14-point favorites versus the Lions, while the game’s total is sitting at 39\u00bd…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[41,1784,164,1701,21101,470,502,548,633,21099,21100,5990,825,840,844,870,2521,5989,1507,1294,5209],"class_list":["post-16809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-41","tag-baltimore-ravens","tag-betting-lines","tag-detroit-lions","tag-detroit-vs-baltimore","tag-free-pick","tag-gambling-lines","tag-handicappers-predictions","tag-lions","tag-lions-ravens-spread","tag-lions-vs-ravens","tag-nfl-betting-preview","tag-nfl-free-picks","tag-nfl-odds","tag-nfl-picks","tag-nfl-spreads","tag-nfl-trends","tag-nfl-week-14-free-pick","tag-ravens","tag-vegas-picks","tag-week-14"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16809","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=16809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17064,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16809\/revisions\/17064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}