Time<\/strong>: Sunday 4:15 ET They whined their way out of Gillette Stadium in Foxboro after a Week 4 loss, and they whined about the refs again last week when they lost a key game against the Steelers.<\/p>\n Maybe if they just, you know, maybe, played the game and kept quiet?<\/p>\n Besides its troubles with referees, Baltimore can look back at a season full of what-ifs \u2013 a Week 5 three-point loss at home to Cincinnati, a Week 11 two-point defeat at home against Indianapolis, last Sunday\u2019s Steelers loss when the Ravens squandered one scoring chance after another.<\/p>\n Still, it all adds up to an 8-7 record and the frustrating necessity of having to more than go through the motions this Sunday afternoon against the goofball-but-dangerous Raiders. Oakland already owns wins over Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Denver and Philadelphia, so the banged-up Ravens (Ed Reed might not play, other starters are questionable) will have to tape up and go at it in a game Baltimore had hoped would be playoff-meaningless.<\/p>\n After an offensive flurry early in the season (103 total points in the first three games, all victories), things have settled down a bit and the Ravens have scored just about as much as they did last season, and given up just about as many points. They rank third overall defensively and 14th in offense. Joe Flacco is among the better of the second-tier quarterbacks and has already thrown for more than 3,500 yards, but it\u2019s a pretty good bet that the Ravens will try to run their way into the playoffs behind emerging star Ray Rice. Rice has averaged 5.29 yard a carry this season \u2013 no small feat \u2013 and is coming off a 30-carry, 141-yard effort against the Steelers. It\u2019s safe to assume that the Ravens will see what kind of resistance Oakland puts up defensively against the run before they turn Flacco loose. John Harbaugh would love to grind out clock, win 17-3 and be on a plane headed east by the time 60 Minutes is on the air.<\/p>\n With the possible exception of Tom Cable\u2019s job, there isn\u2019t a heck of a lot on the table for the Raiders. They have a basketful of high-profile victories, but will head into the off-season without a quarterback for 2010 (JaMarcus Russell is radioactive and can\u2019t be traded) and with the usual array of off-the-field and contractual problems that seem to dog the franchise 24\/7.<\/p>\n Baltimore should not have a lot of trouble winning this one and edging out Denver in a tiebreaker for the final spot.<\/p>\n Pick: Ravens<\/strong><\/p>\n Comment on this game below, hit us with your pregame NFL picks and predictions…<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong> Point spread, ATS odds, and moneyline betting and preview article for the 2009 Week 17 Sunday football NFL clash between the Baltimore Ravens and the Oakland Raiders…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[21995,89,22001,1878,2828,7117,504,713,66502,955,1055,1507,22002,22003,22004,22005,22006,1186,22000],"class_list":["post-17537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-2010-nfl-previews","tag-ats","tag-baltimore-ravens-vs-oakland-raiders","tag-bet-on-raiders","tag-bet-on-ravens","tag-bet-on-week-17","tag-gambling-odds","tag-moneylines","tag-nfl","tag-overunder","tag-raiders","tag-ravens","tag-ravens-raiders-lines","tag-ravens-raiders-odds","tag-ravens-raiders-spread","tag-ravens-vs-raiders","tag-ravens-vs-raiders-preview","tag-spread","tag-week-17-gambling-lines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17537"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109398,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17537\/revisions\/109398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nVenue<\/strong>: Oakland Alameda County Stadium, Oakland
\nMoneyLine<\/strong>: Raiders +465 (-110) \/ Ravens -545 (-115)
\nSpread<\/strong>: Ravens -10 (-110)
\nOver\/Under<\/strong>: 38<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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\nLawrence Paul is a regular contributor to the Cappers Picks Blog, and is a free-lance gambling and travel expert from Massachusetts.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"