{"id":3043,"date":"2008-12-14T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/patriots-raiders-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-14T12:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-14T17:03:00","slug":"patriots-raiders-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/patriots-raiders-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots-Raiders Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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The New England Patriots and the Oakland Raiders will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at McAfee Coliseum. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Oddsmakers currently have the Patriots listed as 7-point favorites versus the Raiders, while the game’s total is sitting at 39\u00bd. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Patriots defeated Seattle<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 24-21 as a 7.5-point favorite last week. The combined score went OVER the posted over\/under total (43). <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Matt Cassel passed for 268 yards with a touchdown for New England<\/st1:place> and Wes Welker caught 12 passes for 134 yards. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
The Raiders were defeated 34-7 by the Chargers last time out, as 9-point road underdogs. The 41 points went as a PUSH against the posted total of 41. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Zach Miller had 64 yards receiving off eight catches. <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Current streak:
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> has lost 2 straight games.<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Team records:
New England<\/st1:place>: 8-5 SU, 6-7 ATS
Oakland: 3-10 SU, 5-8 ATS <\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
New England<\/st1:place> most recently:
When playing in December are 9-1
When playing on grass are 7-3
After outgaining opponent are 5-5
When playing outside the division are 6-4<\/p>\n

Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> most recently:
When playing in December are 1-9
When playing on grass are 3-7
After being outgained are 3-7
When playing outside the division are 1-9<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

A few trends to consider:
New England is 12-2 SU in its last 14 games on the road
The total has gone OVER in 4 of New England’s last 5 games
New England is 19-6 SU in its last 25 games
New England is 17-7 ATS in its last 24 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 5 of Oakland’s last 6 games
The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Oakland’s last 5 games at home
Oakland is 2-5 ATS in its last 7 games
Oakland is 1-6 ATS in its last 7 games at home<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n
Next up:
New England<\/st1:place> home to Arizona<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>, Sunday, December 21
Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> home to Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, Sunday, December 21<\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n

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The New England Patriots and the Oakland Raiders will both be gunning for a victory on Sunday when they meet at McAfee Coliseum. Oddsmakers currently have the Patriots listed as 7-point favorites versus the Raiders, while the game’s total is sitting at 39\u00bd. The Patriots defeated Seattle 24-21 as a 7.5-point favorite last week. The … Continue reading Patriots-Raiders Preview<\/span> →<\/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-3043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043","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=3043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}