NFL Week Six Lines – Oakland Raiders vs. New Orleans Saints
For the second time this year, the New Orleans Saints lost a game because of their kicker. I hate to point out Martin Grammatica’s faults, but, seriously, he can’t make a 46 yarder in a dome? Come on, Martin. It was absolutely ridiculous how the Saints committed nine penalties in the first half of their Monday night loss versus the Minnesota Vikings.
Then, after taking control of the game, they give up a touchdown to let the Vikings back in it. Grammatica still had a chance to give the Saints the lead, but he couldn’t come through. The Vikings’ kicker did and the Vikes won the game.
It was a huge disappointment to this online sportsbook betting fan that had a few online wagering dollars on the Saints to cover the three points. Saints’ coach Sean Payton swears that he will get this team together.
He started by putting Grammatica on injured reserve and resigning sixth round draft pick kicker Taylor Mehlhaff.
The Oakland Raiders have a new coach but the same team. They do have a good defense but let’s be honest. From an online football betting point-of-view, the Raiders’ defense has no chance of stopping that Saints’ offense. But one thing that the Raiders do have is a good enough run game to keep that porous Saints’ defense on their heels.
The Raiders have had some bad luck in their games this season. They should have beaten the Buffalo Bills straight-up and had a shot to bury the San Diego Chargers but let the Chargers score 25 points in the fourth quarter of that game.
Here are the BetUS online sportsbook betting odds for this game.
Kick-off: 10/12/2008 1:00 pm est.
Oakland Raiders + 8 – 110 + 260 O 47 – 110
New Orleans Saints – 8 – 110 – 320 U 47 – 110
Here are a few online wagering trends that might help us find a good online bet in this game.
The Oakland Raiders are 1 and 4 against the spread in their last 4 games on field turf.
The Over is 5 and 1 in the Oakland Raiders last 6 games overall.
The New Orleans Saints are 0 and 4 against the spread versus a team with a losing record.
The Over is 10-1-1 in the New Orleans Saints last 12 games on field turf.
The Saints should dominate the Raiders, but as the trend above shows, the Saints tend to play down to their competition. They will put up a lot of points in this game, but they might have trouble stopping the Raiders’ offense. They shouldn’t, but they might.
Because of that, I sort of have to go with the BetUS over in this game. The total is fairly high at 47 ½ points, but the Raiders have no chance of stopping the Saints and the Saints’ defense can be awful at times.
NFL Week 6 Prediction:
I’ll be making an online wager on this game to go over the BetUS online sportsbook total of 47 ½.
