Houston at Las Vegas

While the debut of Houston's top draft choice Jadeveon Clowney was much anticipated, it was also short lived. He left the game with a torn meniscus and will be sidelined an estimated 6-8 weeks. He wasn't needed as the Washington Redskins managed just 6 points in the game last week. Most thought that a now healthy RG3 would be back causing fits for opposing defenses with his threat to run. But last week he showed reluctance and was sacked three times for -26 yards, while he ran just three times for only two yards. The lack of his threat of running has made the Washington offense vulnerable, and it showed against Houston. The Texans now take to the road, and things have gone badly for them outside of Houston where they have dropped seven straight. Oakland has fared no better as their opening week loss on the road to the Jets gives them seven straight losses overall, so one of these streaks will end this week. Oakland does have a confidence-builder coming into this one as they went to Houston a year ago and came away with a 5-point win. I think now that Carr has gotten his feet wet in the NFL, and Ryan Fitzpatrick now has a full game in as the Houston QB, the playbook will expand for both of these teams in this one and allow for more opportunities to score. Houston has another ugly streak as they are 0-8 ATS following a spread win in their last eight, while the Raiders have been 5-1 ATS in their last six after scoring 15 or fewer in their previous game. Oakland will indeed be opening the playbook after passing for less than 150 yards in their previous game with four straight OVER the total. Take both Oakland and the OVER in this one.