{"id":17744,"date":"2010-01-07T13:24:23","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T18:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=17744"},"modified":"2010-01-07T13:24:23","modified_gmt":"2010-01-07T18:24:23","slug":"wildcard-betting-odds-ravens-patriots-70110","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/nfl\/wildcard-betting-odds-ravens-patriots-70110\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildcard Odds: Ravens vs. Pats"},"content":{"rendered":"

Baltimore Ravens @ New England Patriots<\/h2>\n

This matchup is not really a surprise. The fact that it takes place in the first weekend of the playoffs is. The Patriots went into this season odds on favorites to extend their dynasty and dominate the league with a top tier Offense, while the Ravens were supposed to ride the wave of an improving Offense and a rock solid defense.<\/p>\n

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Time<\/strong>: Sunday 1:00 ET
\nVenue<\/strong>: Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, Mass.
\nMoneyLine<\/strong>: Ravens +160 (-110) \/ Patriots -190 (-110)
\nSpread<\/strong>: Patriots -3.5 (-110)
\nOver\/Under<\/strong>: 43<\/p>\n

The matchup is a simple pass vs. run battle.\u00a0 The Ravens have relatively no passing game while the Patriots have a substandard running game.\u00a0 In other words, Sunday\u2019s game seems to be a battle of two totally unbalanced teams.<\/p>\n

The Baltimore Ravens come into New England with a predictable game plan – control the ball with their superb running game and try to keep the high flying Patriots Offense off the field.\u00a0 The Ravens are not going to scare anyone with their passing game as demonstrated by last week\u2019s 102 yards passing against the woeful Oakland Raiders.\u00a0 Derrick Mason is solid but unspectacular and Todd Heap has had a bit of a rebound season and that\u2019s about all the Patriots have to worry about in the passing game.<\/p>\n

What the Ravens will do however is frighten the crap out of any Defensive Coordinator and his ability to scheme in order to stop the run.\u00a0 Ray Rice has 2000 combined yards this season and he\u2019s as much of a threat to catch the ball out of the backfield as he is to break a big run.\u00a0 He\u2019s a weapon that the Patriots are going to have to contain.\u00a0 Oh ya – Willis Mcgahee dusted off the cobwebs and scored 3 touchdowns last week too and has rekindled his place in the Baltimore Offense not unlike Edgerrin James did last year for the Arizona Cardinals. [soliloquy id=”82219″]<\/p>\n

We all know about the Ravens Defense as they have been at the top of the league for years.\u00a0 What is truly different about this unit is the number of injuries that they have sustained to key players.\u00a0 The true test is whether or not the Banged up Ravens can shake off the pain and the rust and get after Tom Brady, Randy Moss, and the running back carousel of New England.<\/p>\n

New England was dealt a major blow when Wes Welker went down with an injured knee last week.\u00a0 He had 125 catches this year folks!!\u00a0 Julian Edelmen steps in to the Welker role and actually had success earlier in the year.\u00a0 The key is Randy Moss and if he is ON with Tom Brady.\u00a0 We have all seen what can happen when those 2 are clicking.\u00a0 Tom Brady at home in the playoffs – its pretty hard to bet against him.<\/p>\n

The New England Defense and their recent play has Ravens fans optimistic and with good reason.\u00a0 The have been brutal this year and are especially bad against the run.\u00a0 Baltimore is an elite running team.\u00a0 Lets put it this way – the New England Defense is NOT going to be the reason that they win this weekend.<\/p>\n

The Baltimore Ravens squeaked into the playoffs, and just don\u2019t seem to be on the same level as the Patriots.\u00a0 I\u2019ll take Tom Brady and Bill Belichek over the Ravens any day.<\/p>\n

Pick:<\/strong> Patriots
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Oddsmakers currently have the Patriots listed as 3\u00bd-point favorites versus the Ravens, while the game’s total is sitting at 43. These two teams are evenly matched and this game could come down to who takes care of the football…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[10330,22241,22242,17822,18006,181,471,22240,849,22153,22154,17820,7784,7957,22162,7961],"class_list":["post-17744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-10330","tag-afc-wildcard","tag-baltimore-ats","tag-baltimore-ravens-vs-new-england-patriots","tag-baltimore-vs-new-england","tag-betting-trends","tag-free-picks","tag-new-england-ats","tag-nfl-playoffs","tag-ravens-patriots-lines","tag-ravens-patriots-odds","tag-ravens-vs-patriots","tag-wild-card-lines","tag-wild-card-spreads","tag-wildcard-betting-odds","tag-wildcard-odds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17744","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17747,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17744\/revisions\/17747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}