Raiders vs. Chiefs: Black Friday Showdown Analysis

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00:00Move ahead here to Black Friday action, which again, the Las Vegas Raiders are going to travel

00:05to take on the Kansas City Chiefs. You look at that price point, Dubsy, 12 and a half,

00:10a total of 42 and a half. My first indicator is always like, what? Who's laying the points

00:16with the Kansas City Chiefs at minus 12 and a half? So I ask you that question, Dubsy.

00:20Are you laying the points with the Kansas City Chiefs on Black Friday?

00:25Absolutely not, Donnie. I mean, this is not a field goal or a touchdown we're talking about.

00:30This is a significant margin. And one thing we've seen all season long is, you know,

00:34the reigning champs, they find a way to win these games, but they also find a way to struggle and

00:39allow some much weaker oppositions to hang around close. Now it's the Raiders with no

00:45Gartner Minshew. We've got Aiden O'Connell, but I just think that this will be a low scorer.

00:50I don't expect to see plenty of points and at 12 and a half, cannot touch it. I think the Raiders

00:55could be, you know, set for a bit of a surprise on Friday afternoon. I think they're going to

01:00give the Kansas City Chiefs a bit of a test, not to say that they're capable of winning this thing

01:04straight up, but Kansas City Chiefs, maybe look for them in the first half to cover that line.

01:09And then they'll just cruise, try and lean on that running game and chew the clock and just be

01:13done with it on Black Friday so they can get the shopping carts out and meet your boy at Dick's

01:18chasing some of those discounts. So it's a big margin, lofty number for a side that,

01:22I'll tell you what, they cannot blow a poorer team, a lesser team off the field. They just can't.

01:28I'm telling you, look, last week, yeah, you got that nice early in the first half,

01:31but the Chiefs do what they always do, take their foot off the gas. Oh, wait a second.

01:34Let's wake up and score some points. They can do that. We'll see of that approach because it is

01:38a division rival here. And also keep in mind, this game is played at three o'clock Eastern,

01:4235 degree temperatures in Kansas City, no precipitation, not a lot of wind there,

01:46but it will be a chilly environment for a dome team like the Raiders going outside.

01:50But always the adage is, come on, Kansas City over a touchdown. How the heck can you actually

01:54lay those points? Let me get a little bit off topic before we get right back into this game,

01:58Dougsy. Black Friday football games in the NFL. This is a bad one, but I love it. I love the

02:03fact I'm getting a mid-afternoon game in the NFL on Friday. I love it. How about you?

02:08I love it. It's fantastic. Right now, Tony, we are in the thick of it in football season,

02:14not to knock the NBA cup or some of the hockey slate we've got going on. It's football. Okay,

02:20I'm knocking it. Nobody wants the NBA cup. The courts, they're horrendous. The hockey slate,

02:25no. Tell me when OVs reach that milestone, the Capitals are vying for a Stanley Cup.

02:30We want football. We want NFL. We want it on Black Friday. We absolutely got it. I don't care

02:35if it's the Panthers taking on the Raiders. I want to watch it. I want to bet on it. I think

02:39this is going to be a great matchup. I think it's going to be, shockingly, a lot closer than

02:44what the odds makers are telling us. You look at that total, Donny. They're not expecting points,

02:48but then they're expecting the Kansas City Chiefs to blow them off the park. I tell you what,

02:52if the Raiders can put up 10 points, they're covering this one.