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Week 7 NFL Spreads: Jets vs. Raiders

Point spread, ATS odds, and moneyline betting and preview article for the 2009 Week 7 Sunday football NFL clash between the AFC’s N.Y. Jets and the Oakland Raiders…

NFL Week 7 – N.Y. JETS vs. OAKLAND RAIDERS

Mark Sanchez has an NFL arm. Anyone who has seen him throw a football more than once or twice is convinced of that.

Sanchez also has kahones. He proved that in his second game as a pro when he engineered second-half drives in a victory over the Patriots, and in the process outplayed Tom Brady.

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Time: Sunday 4:05 ET
Venue: Oakland-Alameda County Stadium
MoneyLine: Raiders +230 (-110) / Jets -270 (-105)
Spread: Jets -6 (-110)
Over/Under: 35

He has a great future, and at some point will probably be the best quarterback in his division, AFC Conference or mayb even the entire league.

What the Jets want to know now is if Sanchez has the ability to bounce back from a bad game, and they’ll find that out Sunday in Oakland. Sanchez was crestfallen last Sunday after New York’s stunning overtime loss to Buffalo. Five interceptions will do that to you.

Playing quarterback in the NFL requires a pro golfer’s steady temperament, and there is concern in the Big Apple about Sanchez beating himself up during and after the Jets’ third consecutive loss, a defeat which moved them down a rung in the East. Sanchez was near tears in discussing his 5-INT Bills game in which the rookie completed only 10 (of 30) passes for 96 yards, was sacked twice, and couldn’t get the team into the end zone in two trips inside the Buffalo 20.

Jets coach Rex Ryan, who loves teams to dominate defensively while the quarterback runs a mistake-free offense, was uncharacteristically reflective in discussing Sanchez’s troubles. The Jets are now signaling that they will dumb down the offense for Sanchez, in much the same way that the Steelers cut the field in half and limited Ben Roethlisberger during his rookie season.Sports Betting at Sportsbook.com

As he tries to repair Sanchez’s frangile psyche, Ryan and the Jets staff also have to figure out a way to minimize the damage caused by the season-ending knee injury to nose tackle Kris Jenkins. Jenkins’ 370-pound presence in the middle of the line forced double- and triple-teams, and allowed everyone else to run around and cause havoc. There is speculation now that Ryan will abandon his 3-4 attack-the-pocket defense in favor of a 4-3.

With New England’s offense apparently running on all cylinders again and the Pats taking on winless Tampa Bay this Sunday, a loss on the West Coast (where the Jets went 0-4 last season) would drop the Jets two games back in the East after their 3-0 start.

Meanwhile, no one knows what to make of the Raiders, who were outscored 96-16 in the three games before that head-scratching victory over Philadelphia last Sunday. Oakland was able to take advantage of the Eagles’ injury-plagued offensive line and stalled Philly’s offense.

Of course Oakland beat Philly despite scoring only one touchdown, but when you’re as bad as the Raiders, you take success in whatever direction it chooses to come from, and even though a 13-9 victory is a small fish, coach Tom Cable won’t be tossing it back any time soon.

“The most important thing for me is for us to do it again,” said Cable this week.

If they do beat the Jets, it might be time to start thinking about taking sharp objects away from Sanchez.

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Lawrence Paul is a regular contributor to the Cappers Picks Blog, and is a free-lance gambling and travel expert from Massachusetts.

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