{"id":9708,"date":"2010-10-23T20:00:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T01:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/?p=9708"},"modified":"2010-10-23T14:04:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T19:04:07","slug":"sunday-nfl-picks-oakland-raiders-at-denver-broncos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/sunday-nfl-picks-oakland-raiders-at-denver-broncos-9708\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday NFL Picks: Oakland Raiders at Denver Broncos"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oakland Raiders at Denver Broncos
\nSunday, 10\/24\/2010, 4:15 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS
\nOpening Point Spread:\u00a0 Denver -7
\nCurrent Betting Line:\u00a0 Denver -7.5
\nOpening Total:\u00a0 42.5
\nCurrent Total:\u00a0 42.5
\nCurrent Moneyline:\u00a0 Denver -330 \/ Oakland +280<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Denver QB Kyle Orton ranks second in the league in passing yards and leads the Broncos as a 7.5-point home favorite<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Oakland travels to Denver for an AFC West matchup with the Broncos and both teams enter the game with matching 2-4 records.\u00a0 The Raiders know they will have their hands filled with Broncos quarterback Kyle Orton, who has nine touchdown passes on the season and a 94.2 passer rating.\u00a0 \u201cWe have to get Kyle out of rhythm,\u201d said head coach Tom Cable.\u00a0 \u201cYou have to do that.\u00a0 If he\u2019s allowed to stand back there and throw it around, they\u2019re very good at receiver.\u201d\u00a0 Cornerback Nnamdi Asomugha will be relied heavily upon in man coverage, as the defense has been burned on at least two occasions for touchdowns this year when straying from their usual man-to-man defense and playing zone. The team goes into this contest with a 1-0 record in the division, having beaten the Chargers, and won its last two games in Denver.\u00a0 Oakland is 14-13 ATS versus conference opponents.<\/p>\n

The Raiders offense is entering off a forgettable performance in last week\u2019s 17-9 road loss to San Francisco, managing a season-worst 179 total yards.\u00a0 Quarterback Jason Campbell went 8 of 21 for 83 yards and two interceptions and was starting in place of Bruce Gradkowski (shoulder).\u00a0 He suffered a sprained left knee in the loss and Cable has stated his availability this week will be a game-time decision.\u00a0 Third string quarterback Kyle Boller is likely to make the start of he can\u2019t go, as he appeared in seven games last season with St. Louis, throwing for 899 yards with three touchdowns and six interceptions.\u00a0 \u201cI\u2019ve pretty much stayed on top of it over the last six weeks and that\u2019s part of your job.\u201d\u00a0 Oakland\u2019s game plan is likely to be build around running back Michael Bush, who gained 133 yards in last year\u2019s 20-19 win over the Broncos.<\/p>\n

Denver has faced some pretty stiff competition over the last two weeks in dropping back-to-back contests to the Baltimore Ravens and New York Jets.\u00a0 The Broncos now get to kick off divisional play against a Raiders team that has no identity.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re not down on ourselves and we don\u2019t look at the last game and say we played toe to toe with what\u2019s supposed to be the best team,\u201d said linebacker Mario Haggan.\u00a0 \u201cWe\u2019re just coming here and going to work.\u201d\u00a0 This week\u2019s matchup represents the 100th regular-season meeting between the two AFC West rivals.\u00a0 Denver trails in the all-time series 41-56-2, but since 1995, the Broncos own a 22-8 advantage, including an 11-4 mark at home.\u00a0 The team is 5-14 ATS at home over the past three years and the total is 7-12 Over\/Under.<\/p>\n

The Broncos will definitely need to improve upon its 32nd-ranked running game to cover this number on Sunday, as Orton can\u2019t be relied upon to continue producing at his current rate.\u00a0 The former Bears quarterback has passed for the second-most yards in the NFL at 1,942.\u00a0 Wide receiver Brandon Lloyd leads the league in receiving yards, with his 663 representing the most in franchise history through six games.\u00a0 The Broncos have been a mess on defense and have been flip-flopping from their usual 3-4 alignment with a 4-3 front on occasion.<\/p>\n

Bettors may take a shot on the Raiders due to their 5-2 ATS mark following a SU loss, while the Broncos are a dismal 1-7 ATS in their last eight versus the AFC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oakland Raiders at Denver Broncos Sunday, 10\/24\/2010, 4:15 PM EST, TV:\u00a0 CBS Opening Point Spread:\u00a0 Denver -7 Current Betting Line:\u00a0 Denver -7.5 Opening Total:\u00a0 42.5 Current Total:\u00a0 42.5 Current Moneyline:\u00a0 Denver -330 \/ Oakland +280 Oakland travels to Denver for an AFC West matchup with the Broncos and both teams enter the game with matching […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":4192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444,132],"tags":[2584,3607,570,348,3605,1059,3606,300],"class_list":["post-9708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-nfl-handicapping","tag-afc-west","tag-brandon-lloyd","tag-denver-broncos","tag-jason-campbell","tag-kyle-boller","tag-kyle-orton","tag-michael-bush","tag-oakland-raiders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9708","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=9708"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9712,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9708\/revisions\/9712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.madduxsports.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}