{"id":11636,"date":"2010-12-18T01:52:07","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T06:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=11636"},"modified":"2010-12-18T14:11:58","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T19:11:58","slug":"raiders-broncos-football-game-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/raiders-broncos-football-game-predictions-11636\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders Broncos Football Game Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denver Broncos at Oakland Raiders, Oakland-Alameda County Stadium, Oakland, CA
\nSunday, December 19, 2010, 4:15 pm EST, TV: CBS
\nOpening Line: Raiders -6.5
\nCurrent Line: Raiders -7
\nOpening Total: 44
\nCurrent Total: 43
\nMoney Line: Raiders -320 \/ Broncos +260<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Oakland RB Darren McFadden rushed for a season-high 165 yards and scored four touchdowns the last time he faced Denver<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The last meeting between the Denver Broncos (3-10) saw the visiting Oakland Raiders (6-7) set a franchise scoring mark in a 59-14 rout.\u00a0 It would be an understatement to say the Broncos are now out for revenge in the rematch when they visit the Raiders (-7) on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Denver\u2019s lowest point of the season may have very well come in the last meeting with Oakland, or it may have come just last week in a demoralizing 43-13 loss at Arizona.\u00a0 The Broncos were crushed as 4-point road favorites due to another poor performance from quarterback Kyle Orton and the inability to stop the Cardinals from moving the ball consistently throughout the game.<\/p>\n

Orton completed 19 of 41 passes for 166 yards and threw three interceptions against Arizona one week after connecting on 9 of 28 passes for 117 yards in a 10-6 loss at Kansas City.\u00a0 He is reportedly suffering from bruised ribs and is now expected to be benched in favor of rookie Tim Tebow, who has thrown only one pass all season.\u00a0 Tebow was the team\u2019s future when Josh McDaniels was still the head coach, and there is speculation that he too could follow McDaniels out of Denver.\u00a0 However, he will finally get the opportunity to prove himself as a first-round pick and could very well be the starter for the team’s last three games.<\/p>\n

The lone bright spot offensively for the Broncos has been running back Knowshon Moreno, who rushed for 81 yards and scored the team\u2019s only touchdown.\u00a0 Moreno rushed for a season-high 161 yards on 23 carries against the Chiefs in the previous game and figures to get a heavy workload against a Raiders defense that is surrendering 132.8 yards per game on the ground.<\/p>\n

Oakland running back Darren McFadden was the star of the last meeting with Denver, as he rushed for a season-high 165 yards, added 31 receiving yards and scored four touchdowns.\u00a0 McFadden is also coming off a monster performance in last week\u2019s 38-31 loss at Jacksonville, totaling 209 yards rushing and receiving and scoring three touchdowns.\u00a0 The team fell to 5-3 in games McFadden has carried the ball at least 16 times.<\/p>\n

Despite McFadden\u2019s strong play lately, the Raiders have dropped three of their last four games both straight-up and against the spread following a 5-4 start.\u00a0 But the Broncos have been even worse, losing eight of their last nine games and McDaniels along the way.\u00a0 Oakland has covered seven of the last nine meetings with Denver even though the Broncos have won five of those games.\u00a0 The total has gone OVER in five of the last seven games between the teams.<\/p>\n

If you are betting this AFC West matchup between the Raiders & Broncos, be sure to check out the winning NFL picks packages we offer.\u00a0 You can also get free winners on our free NFL picks page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Denver Broncos at Oakland Raiders, Oakland-Alameda County Stadium, Oakland, CA Sunday, December 19, 2010, 4:15 pm EST, TV: CBS Opening Line: Raiders -6.5 Current Line: Raiders -7 Opening Total: 44 Current Total: 43 Money Line: Raiders -320 \/ Broncos +260 The last meeting between the Denver Broncos (3-10) saw the visiting Oakland Raiders (6-7) set […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":4196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[570,2539,2508,1930,1922,300,4185],"class_list":["post-11636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-denver-broncos","tag-football-betting","tag-free-nfl-pick","tag-nfl-odds","tag-nfl-picks","tag-oakland-raiders","tag-raiders-broncos-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11636","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\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11636"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11668,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11636\/revisions\/11668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}