NFL forecast: Stage set for Raiders-Chargers shootout on ‘MNF’

The Silver and Black person been the golden modular for NFL implicit bettors since the commencement of past season.

The Raiders finished the 2020 regular play with the league’s champion over-under grounds astatine 12-3-1 and are 2-1 this play for a 14-4-1 implicit tally (78 percent).

It’s been said that a crippled is ne'er nether until it’s over. That was surely the lawsuit successful Las Vegas’ 31-28 overtime triumph Sunday implicit the Dolphins, who pushed the fig implicit the full (44½) connected Jacoby Brissett’s touchdown tally with 2 seconds near successful regulation.

The Raiders defence has improved, but Miami — which mustered a full of 17 points successful its archetypal 2 games against the Patriots and Bills — inactive managed to enactment up 28 down its backup quarterback.

Now the high-flying Raiders, averaging 30 points successful their 3-0 start, volition instrumentality connected a Chargers squad connected “Monday Night Football” coming disconnected a 30-24 triumph implicit the Chiefs.

The AFC West rivals combined for 57 points successful each of their 2 meetings past season, and the signifier is acceptable for different shootout astatine SoFi Stadium.

Raiders backmost Derek Carr leads the league successful passing yards with 1,203, and Los Angeles QB Justin Herbert is 5th with 956. The implicit is 8-2 successful NFL prime-time games, and these teams person capable firepower to propulsion this 1 implicit the full of 51½.

Here are 4 much plays (home squad successful CAPS):

Lions (+3) implicit BEARS: Detroit is coming disconnected 1 of the astir achy losses imaginable to Baltimore, which converted a fourth-and-19 to acceptable up Justin Tucker’s NFL-record, game-winning 66-yard tract extremity that bounced disconnected the crossbar and implicit it arsenic clip expired. But the Lions (0-3) person been competitive, and underdogs of 6 oregon little are 14-3 ATS this season. Chicago had 47 full yards successful a 26-6 nonaccomplishment to Cleveland and is averaging 13.3 points per game.

Titans (-6) implicit JETS: Tennessee wideouts Julio Jones and A.J. Brown are retired for this game, which is mostly wherefore the enactment has dropped from 8 to 6. But the Titans inactive person Ryan Tannehill and Derrick Henry, and the Jets are inactive the Jets, arguably the NFL’s worst team. New York (0-3) is past successful the league successful scoring (6.7 ppg) and has been outscored 51-6 by the Broncos and Patriots successful the past 2 games.

Chiefs (-6½) implicit EAGLES: It’s astir unfathomable that two-time defending AFC champion Kansas City has covered lone 2 of its past 14 games. We can’t spot the Chiefs losing their 3rd consecutive crippled to a Philadelphia squad connected a abbreviated week aft a 41-21 nonaccomplishment astatine Dallas connected Monday. Former Eagles manager Andy Reid makes his archetypal travel backmost to Philadelphia since 2013.

49ERS (-3) implicit Seahawks: Seattle is 1-7 ATS successful its past 8 roadworthy games and has allowed 63 points successful back-to-back losses to the Titans and Vikings. San Francisco should bounce backmost from its last-second nonaccomplishment to Green Bay against the Seahawks’ porous defense, which allows a league-worst 440.3 yards per game.

Last week: 3-2

Season: 9-6

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