{"id":3150,"date":"2008-12-28T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/raiders-buccaneers-preview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-28T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T15:15:00","slug":"raiders-buccaneers-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/raiders-buccaneers-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders-Buccaneers 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 Tampa Bay Buccaneers will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at Raymond James 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 Buccaneers listed as 13-point favorites versus the Raiders, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 39\u00bd. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Raiders upset <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st1:City><st1:place>Houston<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 27-16 as a 7-point underdog last week. The combined score caused this game to be a PUSH on the posted over\/under total (43). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">JaMarcus Russell passed for 236 yards with a pair of touchdowns for <st1:City><st1:place>Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>, while Johnnie Lee Higgins caught three passes for 56 yards with a touchdown and returned a punt 80 yards for a touchdown in the win. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Buccaneers lost to <st1:City><st1:place>San Diego<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> 41-24 as a 4.5-point favorite last week. The combined score went OVER the posted over\/under total (42.5). <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Jeff Garcia threw for 232 yards with a touchdown, two interceptions and a TD run for <st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>, while Antonio Bryant had six receptions for 127 yards and a touchdown. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Current streak:<br \/><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place> has lost 3 straight games.<o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3 face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st1:City><st1:place>Oakland<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>: 4-11 SU, 6-9 <\/font><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><st1:place><st1:PlaceName>ATS<\/st1:PlaceName> <br \/><st1:PlaceName>Tampa<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType>Bay<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>: 9-6 SU, 8-7 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Oakland most recently:<br \/>When playing in December are 2-8<br \/>When playing on grass are 3-7<br \/>After outgaining opponent are 2-8<br \/>When playing outside the division are 2-8<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay most recently:<br \/>When playing in December are 3-7<br \/>When playing on grass are 7-3<br \/>After being outgained are 5-5<br \/>When playing outside the division are 6-4<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 OVER in 4 of Oakland&#8217;s last 5 games when playing Tampa Bay<br \/>Oakland is 4-2 SU in its last 6 games when playing Tampa Bay<br \/>Oakland is 3-6 ATS in its last 9 games <br \/>Oakland is 4-15 SU in its last 19 games <br \/>Tampa Bay is 6-1 SU in its last 7 games at home<br \/>The total has gone UNDER in 4 of Tampa Bay&#8217;s last 5 games at home<br \/>The total has gone OVER in 4 of Tampa Bay&#8217;s last 5 games when playing Oakland<br \/>Tampa Bay is 2-4 SU in its last 6 games when playing Oakland<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 Tampa Bay Buccaneers will both be trying to pick up a win on Sunday when they battle at Raymond James Stadium. Oddsmakers currently have the Buccaneers listed as 13-point favorites versus the Raiders, while the game&#8217;s total is sitting at 39\u00bd. The Raiders upset Houston 27-16 as a 7-point underdog &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/raiders-buccaneers-preview\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Raiders-Buccaneers 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-3150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150","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=3150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}