Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
The Oakland Raiders (7-7) will hit the road this weekend to take on the Kansas City Chiefs (6-8), and this game appears to be one of the toughest of the schedule to bet on.
The home-team Chiefs are currently favored by 1 after opening up as 2.5-point underdogs, while the total sits at 41.5 or 42 depending on where you look.
Kansas City was a bit of an afterthought after dropping their first 3 games this season, with 2 of them being lopsided losses.
The Chiefs rebounded to win 4 straight games while being listed as underdogs in every single contest, and it appeared that this team might be better than they appeared to start the year.
In typical erratic fashion, Kansas City then lost 3 in a row despite being the favorite in 2 of the defeats.
The Chiefs then beat the Chicago Bears as 9-point underdogs, lost by 27 to the New York Jets, and then won 19-14 against the then-undefeated Green Bay Packers as 11-point underdogs.
There simply isn’t any way to figure out this team and that makes placing a bet extremely difficult to do.
Oakland is also a bit of a head-scratcher as they have lost 3 straight games after previously winning 3 in a row.
The Chiefs might be the only team in the NFL that is streakier than the Raiders, but Oakland has at least shown consistency with 5 straight games going over the total.
Kansas City has also been a consistent team in that regard as 8 of their last 10 have gone under.
These rivals meet up twice every year and the Chiefs were 28-0 winners as 3.5-point underdogs in Oakland earlier this year.
The Raiders won 31-10 as 4.5-point underdogs the last time they went into Kansas City, and the road team has won outright in 8 of the last 10 meetings.
The road squad has actually covered the point spread in all but 5 of the last 26 meetings, while the underdog has been a winner when the Chiefs and Raiders meet up in 18 of those 26 games.
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