{"id":10122,"date":"2010-10-30T11:45:02","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T16:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=10122"},"modified":"2010-10-30T11:59:58","modified_gmt":"2010-10-30T16:59:58","slug":"pro-football-picks-seattle-seahawks-at-oakland-raiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/pro-football-picks-seattle-seahawks-at-oakland-raiders-10122\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Football Picks: Seattle Seahawks at Oakland Raiders"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seattle Seahawks at Oakland Raiders
\nSunday, 10\/31\/2010, 4:15 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FOX
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oakland -1.5
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Oakland -2.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 42
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 42.5
\nCurrent Moneyline: \u00a0 Oakland -130 \/ Seattle +110<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Oakland Raiders head coach Tom Cable knows his team hasn't won back-to-back games since the end of the 2008 season<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Seattle has started the season off better than most experts expected in the first year of the Pete Carroll regime and currently sit atop the NFC West standings.\u00a0 The Seahawks are off to their best start since 2006 and coming off a solid 22-10 home win over the Arizona Cardinals last week.\u00a0 In that victory, Seattle managed to score just a single offensive touchdown, while relying on five field goals from kicker Olindo Mare.\u00a0 \u201cWe learned a lot and take a lot out of it, but we\u2019ve got to work, get stuff ironed out and fixed to help us and keep us going,\u201d said Carroll.\u00a0 The team is 4-2 ATS this season and 6-13 ATS in their last 19 road games.\u00a0 Seattle currently is tabbed as a +2.5 road underdog on the NFL lines page.<\/p>\n

The Seahawks are showing signs of improving week-by-week and received praise from former NFL head coach Tony Dungy calling them the best team in the NFC.\u00a0 \u201cPlaying football and coming to work every day is hard enough,\u201d said Seahawks safety Lawyer Milloy.\u00a0 \u201cFor me to sit around and read newspapers or listen to analysts, that\u2019s their job.\u00a0 I\u2019m honored by a guy who\u2019s accomplished the ultimate goal in coach Dungy saying that.\u201d\u00a0 Seattle\u2019s run game will have a major say in the outcome of this game and has totaled 255 rushing yards the last two weeks after topping 100 yards once in the previous four.\u00a0 New addition Marshawn Lynch has led the charge in gaining yards on the ground and carried the ball 24 times last week for 89 yards.<\/p>\n

Oakland is coming off a franchise-record performance last week in a 59-14 win at Denver, scoring the most points in the team\u2019s history.\u00a0 Head coach Tom Cable still knows that his team is susceptible to falling flat after such a performance and will have to be on the top of his game this week.\u00a0 \u201cIf you show it to us and you show me what you\u2019re capable of and you\u2019ve been able to do it more than once, it\u2019s expected,\u201d Cable commented.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s called raising the bar.\u00a0 And when you raise the bar you\u2019ve got to be accountable to that.\u201d\u00a0 The Raiders gained 508 yards last week after amassing just 179 yards in a 17-9 loss to San Francisco the week before.\u00a0 The squad is 3-8 ATS in its last 11 non-conference games.<\/p>\n

The Raiders are expected to be led by quarterback Jason Campbell for a third straight week, who completed 12 of 20 passes for 204 yards and two touchdowns in relief of injured starter Bruce Gradkowski.\u00a0 Those numbers were far cry from his 8-for-21 performance in a week prior in San Francisco.\u00a0 Oakland hasn\u2019t won back-to-back games since the end of the 2008 season, losing its last five opportunities to do so.\u00a0 The team is 17-9 all-time against the Seahawks at home and lead the overall series, 27-23.<\/p>\n

Bettors will be interested in knowing that the Seahawks are 1-10 ATS in their last 11 games as a road underdog, while the Raiders are 0-11 ATS in their last 11 games as a home favorite.\u00a0 Something has to give in this contest on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on another fabulous Sunday and let the Maddux Sports NFL handicappers make you a winner this weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seattle Seahawks at Oakland Raiders Sunday, 10\/31\/2010, 4:15 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 FOX Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Oakland -1.5 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Oakland -2.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 42 Current Total:\u00a0 42.5 Current Moneyline: \u00a0 Oakland -130 \/ Seattle +110 Seattle has started the season off better than most experts expected in the first year of the Pete Carroll […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[348,3670,2587,300,1287,417,654],"class_list":["post-10122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-jason-campbell","tag-lawyer-milloy","tag-nfc-west","tag-oakland-raiders","tag-pete-carroll","tag-seattle-seahawks","tag-tom-cable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10122"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10125,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10122\/revisions\/10125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}