Week 1 NFL Betting Preview – Raiders vs Bengals

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Raiders Try to Bark as Home Dog Under Del Rio

By Charles Jay

The Oakland Raiders are tired of mediocrity, apparently. They went out and hired a new coach who has had some degree of success in the NFL before, and they hope they can work up some more excitement on offense as they embark on their 2015 schedule, starting with a home game against the Cincinnati Bengals. The contest will kick off at 4:25 PM ET on Sunday at the O.co Coliseum, and the great news for BetAnySports customers is that they get to use Live Betting Extra to place wagers while the event is actually in progress.

Week 1 NFL Betting Preview – Raiders vs Bengals

In the football betting odds that have been established on this game by the people at BetAnySports, the Raiders are home underdogs:

• Cincinnati Bengals -3 (+100)
• Oakland Raiders +3 (-120)
• Over 43 points -110
• Under 43 points -110

The Raiders stumbled to a 3-13 record last season, although they were 8-8 against the football pointspread. They spent last season breaking in a new quarterback. David Carr was a second-round draft choice out of Fresno State, but Oakland was expected to go with Matt Schaub, a veteran. During the pre-season, Carr seized the opportunity to take the job and make it his own, and he performed credibly as a rookie, completing 58% and throwing just twelve interceptions. He did not get down the field all that much, however, and that could change as the Raiders acquired Michael Crabtree through free agency and Amari Cooper with their first-round draft choice. The wide receiver spot thus becomes one of the team’s strengths.

Jack Del Rio comes aboard looking to reverse some very disturbing trends. He was a playoff coach when he was with the Jacksonville Jaguars, but he kind of wore out his welcome, and was fired. But he revived himself lately as defensive coordinator with the Denver Broncos. He generally favors a hard-nosed approach, and he has an interesting proposition here, since the Silver & Black was not only 31st in the league in points scored last season, they were also 32nd in points allowed (which, for the uninitiated, means they gave up the most, at 28.3 per game).

Oakland has added what they hope will be impact players in free agent linebacker Curtis Lofton and second-round draft choice Mario Edwards Jr., a defensive end. They will try to affect some more turnovers, as only two teams have fewer takeaways than they did.

BetAnySports patrons have to have some doubts about Cincinnati’s ability to go very far, and why not? Even though they have made the playoffs four consecutive seasons, they have been eliminated in the wild card round all four years. But there are some serious weapons on this team. One of them is AJ Green, who averaged 15 yards a catch and may finally have a playmaker to complement him in Mohamed Sanu, who had 790 yards in receptions. When you look at this running game, it has power and speed, in the persons of Jeremy Hill (5.1 ypc last year) and Giovanni Bernard, a dangerous dual threat out of the backfield.

But Andy Dalton (19 TD’s, 17 INT’s) is not respected as a guy who is able to get the ball down the field a whole lot, and in that way he is somewhat like Carr. Who will get more time to throw? Well, Cincinnati had only twenty sacks last season, which was the worst figure in the league. Are the conditions ripe for a mild upset? Well, the Raiders’ three victories in the 2014 season all came as a home dog.

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