{"id":17845,"date":"2011-09-18T09:52:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T14:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=17845"},"modified":"2011-09-18T09:52:54","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T14:52:54","slug":"oakland-raiders-at-buffalo-bills-pro-football-betting-preview-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/oakland-raiders-at-buffalo-bills-pro-football-betting-preview-predictions-17845\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Raiders at Buffalo Bills Pro Football Betting Preview & Predictions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oakland Raiders at Buffalo Bills
\nSunday, 9\/18\/11, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Buffalo -4
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Buffalo -4
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 41
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 42
\nOdds Courtesy of Bookmaker<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Oakland Raiders QB Jason Campbell will be handing the ball off a lot Sunday<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oakland is out on the road for the second consecutive week after tallying a 23-20 road win over the Denver Broncos as three-point underdogs on Monday Night Football.\u00a0 The Raiders will be aiming to start a campaign with a 2-0 record for the first time in nine years.\u00a0 \u201cIt would mean a ton to this football team,\u201d commented Raiders head coach Hue Jackson.\u00a0 \u201cWe know we have to travel.\u201d\u00a0 All the talk around the practice field leading up to this game is about the Buffalo Bills handing one of the team\u2019s fiercest rivals a 41-7 loss inside Arrowhead Stadium.\u00a0 Oakland is 7-3 ATS as an underdog.<\/p>\n

The Raiders will be putting together a patchwork wide receiving group this week, as Jacoby Ford and Louis Murphy are both expected to miss this contest.\u00a0 Oakland quarterback Jason Campbell will need Darrius Heyward-Bey to come up big, as he caught four passes for 44 yards a week ago.\u00a0 Campbell completed just 13 of 22 passes for 105 yards and a touchdown in last week\u2019s win, as the team relied upon a power run game with Darren McFadden and Michael Bush.\u00a0 The duo combined for 31 carries and 180 yards.<\/p>\n

Buffalo returns home 1-0 after its season-opening victory as 3.5-point road underdogs, out-gaining the Chiefs by 151 total yards.\u00a0 The Bills know they face a big challenge in the trenches this week, especially on the offensive end against the Raiders front and veteran Richard Seymour.\u00a0 \u201cUp front, this is maybe the biggest, most physical team that we\u2019ll see,\u201d commented Bills quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick.\u00a0 Most of the focus in practice this week was spent on limiting McFadden\u2019s ability to break the big run, as he led the league last year with 14 rushes of 20 or more yards.\u00a0 Buffalo is 3-0 ATS against AFC West competition.<\/p>\n

The Bills did a tremendous job of shutting down the Chiefs offense last week on third down, allowing them to convert just 3 of 13 opportunities.\u00a0 This could be the key to the game, as the Raiders made good on just five of the 14 third downs in the Mile High City.\u00a0 \u00a0 Fitzpatrick definitely came out of the gate with a good start, as his 133 passer rating in Week 1 was a career high and also an NFL best for the first week of the regular season.\u00a0 Defensively, Buffalo knows that the two games to start the season is a definitive test, going against the two best rushing attacks from a season ago.<\/p>\n

Bettors will likely back the Bills due to their 4-1 ATS mark as a favorite, while the Raiders are 4-9 ATS following a SU win.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss out on a winning season and let the NFL handicappers at Maddux Sports line your pockets with cash.\u00a0 Long term packages are available now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oakland Raiders at Buffalo Bills Sunday, 9\/18\/11, 1:00 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Buffalo -4 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Buffalo -4 Opening Total:\u00a0 41 Current Total:\u00a0 42 Odds Courtesy of Bookmaker Oakland is out on the road for the second consecutive week after tallying a 23-20 road win over the Denver Broncos as three-point […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":17245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[414,127,1070,300,3720],"class_list":["post-17845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-afc","tag-buffalo-bills","tag-darren-mcfadden","tag-oakland-raiders","tag-ryan-fitzpatrick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17845","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=17845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17846,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17845\/revisions\/17846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}