Broncos vs. Raiders Point Spread: NFL Week 14 Odds, Prediction
That all said, the way the Raiders are playing across this six-game skid doesn’t indicate anything is going to change in the win-loss column anytime soon. Las Vegas has dropped three straight games by at least two touchdowns too as they continue to struggle with any signs of consistency on offence behind 35-year-old quarterback Geno Smith.
The Broncos are riding a nine-game win streak which has featured just one of those wins coming via double-digits. Some call it luck, some call it battle-tested and the latter was certainly the case last Sunday night when Denver held onto a 27-26 overtime victory at Washington.
Kickoff at Allegiant Stadium goes at 4:05 p.m. EST with the visiting Broncos favoured by over a touchdown as they come in at -7.5 on the spread, while the total is at 40.5 on the NFL odds.
NFL Point Spread and Betting Analysis
Everything points to this trend turning around, but the Raiders fare well against the Broncos. In Denver’s last nine trips to play the Raiders they are 1-8 ATS, and the Raiders are 13-3 ATS in their last 16 meetings overall with Denver. The Raiders are also 8-3 straight up in their last 11 contests with the Broncos.
The under has hit in 10 of the last 14 Broncos games, and the under is also 12-6 in Las Vegas’ last 18 outings. The Raiders enter Week 14 having the second-lowest scoring offence with 14.9 points per game. Pair that with Denver’s defence allowing the fourth-fewest points per game (18.2) and you got a nice-looking under opportunity here. Especially when the Raiders have yet to crack 17 points in their last four games.
Denver Broncos
Denver is officially the first team to 50 sacks on the season, recording another two in Sunday’s win at Washington. On the flip side, Las Vegas has allowed 46 sacks this season which is the second-most in the NFL. Sunday’s a complete mismatch on the line of scrimmage, and if you’re ever looking to handicap football games this is always a good area to start.
On offence, Bo Nix passed for 321 yards last week and hit 300 yards in a game for the second time this season. The second-year quarterback hasn’t hit a full sophomore slump — after all he’s quarterbacking a 10-2 team — but there’s definitely some lows he’s got to overcome, namely a 4:4 touchdown to interception ratio in Denver’s past four outings.
Denver is quite healthy too, as only tight end Nate Adkins (knee) and defensive lineman D.J. Jones (ankle) did not practice on Wednesday.
Las Vegas Raiders
It’s Brock Bowers or bust for this Raiders offence. The star second-year tight end found the end zone twice last week and now has at least 55 yards in three straight outings, which is really the only consistently positive thing about this group. Rookie running back Ashton Jeanty continues to lack any sort of production, more due to the offensive line in front of him plus the Raiders getting behind often, but fact is he’s averaging 3.5 yards per carry on nearly 200 attempts.
Quarterback Geno Smith was limited on Wednesday with a foot injury, and offensive linemen Jordan Merdith (ankle) and Dylan Parham (back) also did not practice in full. It’s shaping up to be an uphill battle for this offence, but crazier things have happened. And if those crazy things are to go down on Sunday, it’ll likely be via a high volume of both Bowers and Jeanty.
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