{"id":33119,"date":"2011-02-01T14:18:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T22:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capperspicks.com\/blog\/?p=33119"},"modified":"2023-02-07T06:57:43","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T14:57:43","slug":"super-bowl-45-picks-betting-online-2111","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/handicapping\/super-bowl-45-picks-betting-online-2111\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Bowl 45 Picks: Packers vs. Steelers Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Super Bowl 45 Picks – Green Bay vs Pittsburgh<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Superbowl 45: Green Bay vs. Pittsburgh Matchup Analysis<\/strong>
\nDate\/Time: <\/strong>Sunday, February 6 \u2013 6:25 PM EST
\nVenue: <\/strong>Cowboys Stadium, Arlington Texas
\nGreen Bay Packers (13-6) vs. Pittsburgh Steelers (14-4) Betting Lines from Sportsbook.com<\/strong>
\nMoneyLine: <\/strong>Green Bay (-140) Pittsburgh (+120)
\nNFL Gambling Favorite: <\/strong>Green Bay -3 (+100) Pittsburgh +3 (-120)
\nSuper Bowl Total: <\/strong>44.5
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This Sunday\u2019s game between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Green Bay Packers in Dallas has the makings of a classic; the biggest game featuring two storied franchises both peaking at the right time. The teams faced a difficult road to get to the Super Bowl and both have two consummate signal-callers under center \u2013 Pittsburgh\u2019s Ben Roethlisberger and Green Bay\u2019s Aaron Rodgers \u2013 who can surgically extract a victory.<\/p>\n

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For Green Bay\u2019s part, Rodgers was basically flawless in the postseason until the NFC Championship versus the rival Chicago Bears, where he came back to Earth, throwing a couple of picks and being merely very good. What has spiced up Green Bay\u2019s recent dominance is its sudden emergence of a ground game; rookie RB James Starks has played very well in the playoffs, buttressed by Brandon Jackson and the hard-nosed John Kuhn.<\/p>\n

With a defense perhaps not as top-to-bottom impressive as the Steel Curtain, the Pack still have every important aspect of a great unit \u2013 an effective pass-rush with LB Clay Matthews, thick-bodied run-stuffing with beefy DT B.J. Raji, and a dangerous secondary led by CB Charles Woodson and S Nick Collins. <\/p>\n

What the Packers don\u2019t have is Pittsburgh\u2019s recent Super Bowl-winning pedigree. Roethlisberger and a good chunk of his teammates have proven they can reach the summit, snagging two Lombardi Trophies in the past five seasons. The Steelers\u2019 passing attack is a little less turbo-charged than their Wisconsin counterparts, yet they still bring every requisite to the table to be one of the marquee picks year in and year out. <\/p>\n

Pittsburgh\u2019s O-line would be one area of some concern, but Big Ben has proven to be so adept at eluding the rush (and so massive that he\u2019s tough to bring down even when he\u2019s captured) that even that, often, won\u2019t affect the team\u2019s big picture. A physical run game and one of the legendary blitzing schemes in the sport\u2019s history are hallmarks of Steelers football. If that weren\u2019t enough, Defensive Player of the Year Troy Polamalu should be back from injury for the Super Bowl match-up.<\/p>\n

Even if pivots like Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, and perhaps soon, Aaron Rodgers achieve greatness more single-handedly than Roethlisberger, one can\u2019t argue with his success. A win this Sunday would only further cement that legacy. In Green Bay, the small community has been hungry for glory since Brett Favre steered the ship over New England in Super Bowl XXXI.<\/p>\n

This Packers squad has the talent to satiate the fans.<\/p>\n

Though tricky to predict because neither of these teams are fluky, the Packers may have trouble sustaining their running prowess against Pittsburgh\u2019s famed \u201cD\u201d. Though Rodgers is on the cusp of \u201cbest in the league\u201d status and surely has next following some more tread on the tires of Brady and Manning, he\u2019s going up against a team that specializes in getting \u2013 and maintaining \u2013 momentum.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all about performing in crunch time, and Pittsburgh has been doing it often in recent seasons.<\/p>\n

Super Bowl 45 Picks: The wise picks are with the Steelers in Super Bowl XLV.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Green Bay Packers vs. Pittsburgh Steelers will both be trying to pick up a win in the 2011 Super Bowl championship Game when they battle in Dallas this Sunday. Odds have the Packers listed as 3-point favorites the game\u2019s total is 44\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":33186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[551],"tags":[28750,43844,164,181,20891,470,43404,43407,43845,43848,43849,43847,43846,43835,43850,43842,9714,3278,9013],"class_list":["post-33119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-handicapping","tag-28750","tag-2011-super-bowl","tag-betting-lines","tag-betting-trends","tag-bowl-game-predictions","tag-free-pick","tag-pittsburgh-steelers-vs-green-bay-packers","tag-pittsburgh-vs-green-bay","tag-pittsburgh-vs-green-bay-bowl-preview","tag-steelers-vs-packers-handicapping","tag-steelers-vs-packers-predictions","tag-super-bowl-45-bet","tag-super-bowl-45-football-betting","tag-super-bowl-45-picks","tag-super-bowl-45-predictions","tag-super-bowl-45-spreads","tag-super-bowl-free-pick","tag-super-bowl-odds","tag-super-bowl-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33119","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\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33119"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105454,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33119\/revisions\/105454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}