{"id":2891,"date":"2008-12-04T07:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T12:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/raiders-chargers-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-04T07:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T12:35:00","slug":"raiders-chargers-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/raiders-chargers-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders-Chargers Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\" >\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" style=\"font: inherit;\">\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Oakland Raiders and the San Diego Chargers will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Qualcomm Stadium. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/><o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Oddsmakers currently have the Chargers listed as 10-point favorites versus the Raiders, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 42\u00bd. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Raiders lost to <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:City><st1:place>Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 20-13 as a 3-point favorite last week. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (41.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Justin Fargas rushed for 82 yards and a touchdown on 18 carries for <st1:City><st1:place>Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while JaMarcus Russell threw for 132 yards with no touchdowns. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Chargers defeated <st1:City><st1:place>Atlanta<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 22-16 as a 5.5-point favorite last week. The combined score fell UNDER the posted over\/under total (48). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Philip<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName>River<\/st1:PlaceName><\/st1:place> threw for 149 yards with no touchdowns for <st1:City><st1:place>San Diego<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while LaDainian Tomlinson was held to 24 yards and a touchdown on 14 carries. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>San Diego<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 3 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 3-9 SU, 5-7 ATS <br \/>San Diego: 4-8 SU, <st1:date Month=\"4\" Day=\"7\" Year=\"2001\">4-7-1<\/st1:date> ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:City><st1:place>Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> most recently:<br \/>When playing in December are 1-9<br \/>When playing on grass are 3-7<br \/>After being outgained are 3-7<br \/>When playing within the division are 4-6<\/p>\n<p><st1:City><st1:place>San Diego<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> most recently:<br \/>When playing in December are 10-0<br \/>When playing on grass are 4-6<br \/>After being outgained are 4-6<br \/>When playing within the division are 8-2<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">A few trends to consider:<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Oakland&#8217;s last 5 games <br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 7 of Oakland&#8217;s last 8 games when playing on the road against San Diego<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 6 of Oakland&#8217;s last 8 games when playing San Diego<br \/>Oakland is 4-2 ATS in its last 6 games on the road<br \/>San Diego is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing Oakland<br \/>San Diego is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games when playing at home against Oakland<br \/>San Diego is 10-1 ATS in its last 11 games when playing Oakland<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 7 of San Diego&#8217;s last 8 games <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to New <st1:country-region><st1:place>England<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, Sunday, December 14<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>San Diego<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> at <st1:City><st1:place>Kansas City<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, December 14<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<p style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\" class=MsoNormal><o:p><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><a\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.offshoreinsiders.com\/\"><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>OffshoreInsiders.com<\/b><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Oakland Raiders and the San Diego Chargers will both be trying to pick up a win on Thursday when they battle at Qualcomm Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Chargers listed as 10-point favorites versus the Raiders, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 42\u00bd. The Raiders lost to Kansas City 20-13 as a 3-point &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/raiders-chargers-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Raiders-Chargers Preview<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}