{"id":5404,"date":"2009-08-28T06:43:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/saints-raiders-football-handicapping\/"},"modified":"2009-08-28T06:43:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T11:43:00","slug":"saints-raiders-football-handicapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/saints-raiders-football-handicapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints-Raiders Football Handicapping"},"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 New Orleans Saints and the Oakland Raiders will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. <?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 Saints listed as 2\u00bd-point favorites versus the Raiders, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><?xml:namespace prefix = st2 ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" \/><st2:PersonName><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = \"urn:schemas:contacts\" \/><st1:GivenName>Mike<\/st1:GivenName> <st1:Sn>Bell<\/st1:Sn><\/st2:PersonName> ran for 100 yards and one touchdown as the Saints cruised to a 38-14 win over the Texans in Week 2 of the preseason. The Saints won that game as 3-point underdogs, while the combined score sailed OVER the posted total of 39. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">The Raiders were defeated 21-20 by the 49ers last time out, as 2.5-point underdogs. The 41 points made it OVER the posted total of 35. <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Team records:<br \/><st2:City><st2:place>New Orleans<\/st2:place><\/st2:City>: 8-8 SU, <st2:date Month=\"10\" Day=\"5\" Year=\"2001\">10-5-1<\/st2:date> ATS <br \/>Oakland: 5-11 SU, 7-9 ATS <o:p><\/o:p><\/font><\/font><\/div>\n<div><font size=3><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Next up:<br \/><st2:City><st2:place>New Orleans<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> home to <st2:City><st2:place>Miami<\/st2:place><\/st2:City>, Thursday, September 3<br \/><st2:City><st2:place>Oakland<\/st2:place><\/st2:City> at <st1:Sn><st2:City><st2:place>Seattle<\/st2:place><\/st2:City><\/st1:Sn>, Thursday, September 3<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 New Orleans Saints and the Oakland Raiders will both be trying to pick up a win on Saturday when they battle at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. Oddsmakers currently have the Saints listed as 2\u00bd-point favorites versus the Raiders, while the game&#8217;s total has not yet been posted. Mike Bell ran for 100 yards and one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/saints-raiders-football-handicapping\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saints-Raiders Football Handicapping<\/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-5404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404","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=5404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joeduffy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}