{"id":17298,"date":"2011-08-27T22:00:13","date_gmt":"2011-08-28T03:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=17298"},"modified":"2011-08-28T07:59:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-28T12:59:13","slug":"sunday-night-football-new-orleans-saints-at-oakland-raiders-betting-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/sunday-night-football-new-orleans-saints-at-oakland-raiders-betting-preview-17298\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Night Football: New Orleans Saints at Oakland Raiders Betting Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Orleans Saints at Oakland Raiders<\/strong>
\n Sunday, 8\/28\/11, 8:00 PM EST, NBC<\/strong>
\n Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 New Orleans -4<\/strong>
\n Current Betting Line:\u00a0 New Orleans -4<\/strong>
\n Opening Total:\u00a0 37<\/strong>
\n Current Total:\u00a0 38<\/strong>
\n Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The New Orleans Saints have moved from underdogs to road favorites Sunday night<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New Orleans spent the entire week in Oxnard, California, to prepare for Sunday night\u2019s contest against the Oakland Raiders, as the team looks to bounce back from a 27-14 loss to the Houston Texans.\u00a0 The Saints first-team offense was pleased in generating 149 yards and collecting 10 first downs in its limited amount of action, but managed to score just seven points.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ll have to watch the film, but just by the way I felt, it felt like we moved the ball well,\u201d said Saints quarterback Drew Brees.\u00a0 \u201cIt felt like we mixed the run and pass effectively and spread it around to a lot of guys.\u201d \u00a0 The running back trio of Mark Ingram, Darren Sproles and Pierre Thomas combined for 16 carries for 82 yards in the contest.\u00a0 New Orleans is 27-12 ATS on the road during preseason action.<\/p>\n

The Saints last preseason meeting against the Raiders was a laugher, as New Orleans posted a 45-7 win on Aug. 29, 2009, setting an exhibition record for the franchise in points and margin of victory.\u00a0 Overall, the teams have met four times in the preseason, with the series split 2-2 overall.\u00a0 The coaching staff has placed an emphasis on the defensive side of the ball leading up to this Week 3 contest, after giving up 323 yards and 24 points in the first half last week.\u00a0 \u201cThere\u2019s no way to sugarcoat a game like that,\u201d head coach Sean Payton stated.\u00a0 \u201cThey whipped us.”<\/p>\n

Oakland has been handed defeats in both contests to open up the 2011 preseason, dropping a 24-18 home game to the Arizona Cardinals followed by a 17-3 road loss to the San Francisco 49ers.\u00a0 The Raiders and their coaching staff are looking to shake off the opening weeks and focus on Sunday\u2019s dress rehearsal for the regular season. \u00a0 \u201cI think the team has to get ready,\u201d said Raiders first-year head coach Hue Jackson.\u00a0 \u201cA lot of teams don\u2019t play their starters very much.\u00a0 I think we haven\u2019t played a ton of plays and to get ready for a big Monday night game in Denver, I need to make sure that this team is battle tested and ready.\u201d\u00a0 Oakland is 3-3 ATS as an underdog during preseason action the last two-plus campaigns.<\/p>\n

The Raiders made a big splash during this week\u2019s supplemental draft by selecting former Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor in the third round.\u00a0 Most of the conversation around him suggests that he could see action in Oakland\u2019s preseason finale Sept. 2 at Seattle.\u00a0 Jason Campbell is currently entrenched as the team\u2019s starter and Jackson is watching the battle behind him closely.\u00a0 Kyle Boller and Trent Edwards are both vying for the No. 2 spot on the depth chart and neither has moved above the other.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Saints due to their 7-3 ATS mark during the preseason, while the Raiders are 1-7 ATS as home underdogs during exhibition play.<\/p>\n

The NFL handicappers at Maddux Sports are ready to line your pockets with cash all season long.\u00a0 Get in the game today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New Orleans Saints at Oakland Raiders Sunday, 8\/28\/11, 8:00 PM EST, NBC Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 New Orleans -4 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 New Orleans -4 Opening Total:\u00a0 37 Current Total:\u00a0 38 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker New Orleans spent the entire week in Oxnard, California, to prepare for Sunday night\u2019s contest against the Oakland Raiders, as the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":5410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[1034,1312,348,2040,427,300,3570,455],"class_list":["post-17298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-drew-brees","tag-hue-jackson","tag-jason-campbell","tag-mark-ingram","tag-new-orleans-saints","tag-oakland-raiders","tag-sean-payton","tag-terrelle-pryor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17298","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=17298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17300,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17298\/revisions\/17300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}