The 6-7 Raiders may be coming off three-straight blowout losses, but the Jaguars are coming off five-straight. They haven’t won since October. And, like the Raiders, none of those losses have been close games. So, despite the Raiders reeling right now, they still come into facing the 4-9 Jaguars this week as 6.5-point favorites according to various betting sites.
Back on October 27, the Jaguars had won two straight and four of their previous six games to reach 4-4 at the midway point of the season. Fill-in QB Gardner Minshew was the toast of the town and the Jags arrow was pointed up.
Since then they have fallen hard. In their five-game losing streak, they have been outscored 174-57. That’s an average margin of 23.4 points per game and the closest they have come in any of those games was their 17-point loss to the Buccaneers two weeks ago.
The line would have probably been worse had it not been that the Raiders have lost by an average margin of 27.7 points. And their three-game win-streak had them winning by one score each time with an average margin of 5.3 points. Those were all home games, like this one, so the 6.5-point margin looks about right. It’s the fourth biggest line of the week.
