Las Vegas Raiders 5.5 Win Total After League Low 241 Points

Las Vegas Raiders betting odds follow the lowest scoring season in the NFL, by a distance nobody else came close to.

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The Raiders scored 241 points last season, 14.2 a game, and averaged 4.4 yards a play. They finished last in the league in total yards, rushing yards and rushing touchdowns.

Against Philadelphia they were held to 75 total yards, their fewest in a game since 1961.

They went 3-14, their worst since 2006, and 0-5 against the NFC.

PowerPlay Sportsbook has Las Vegas 125.00 for Super Bowl LXI, 70.00 in the AFC and 20.00 to win the AFC West.

Tiebreakers gave them the first overall pick, their first since 2007. They have not won the division in twenty three seasons.

Odds correct at time of publication and subject to change.

The Sixth Head Coach Since 2021, and He Had to Wait for the Super Bowl

Chip Kelly was sacked as offensive coordinator on 23 November. Pete Carroll was sacked as head coach on 5 January after a single season.

That is a third consecutive year with a new head coach, and Klint Kubiak is the sixth since 2021.

Kubiak agreed to take the job on 1 February but the club could not announce it until 9 February, because he was still working.

He had won Super Bowl LX as Seattle's offensive coordinator the day before.

Asked immediately after that final whether he was going, he said: "Hell yeah, I'm going. Of course I'm going."

His Seattle offence ranked third in scoring at 28.4 points a game and set a franchise record with 483 points. Jaxon Smith-Njigba won Offensive Player of the Year under him.

He is the son of Gary Kubiak. Andrew Janocko runs the offence, Rob Leonard the defence, and the former Chargers head coach Mike McCoy arrived as assistant head coach.

They Took the Heisman Winner First and Started a 38 Year Old

Fernando Mendoza went first overall.

He won the Heisman, the Walter Camp, the Davey O'Brien and the Maxwell after going 16-0 and winning the national title, throwing for 3,535 yards with 41 touchdowns and six interceptions.

He is only the third player in the common draft era, after Joe Burrow and Cam Newton, to win a Heisman and a national title before going first overall.

On 29 August Las Vegas named Kirk Cousins the Week 1 starter ahead of him.

Cousins is 38 and in a fifteenth season, with 44,700 career passing yards, eighteenth on the all time list, and 298 touchdown passes.

Kubiak framed the decision as development rather than competition. "It's learning from Kirk's reps," he said.

Mendoza is 7.00 for Offensive Rookie of the Year, second on that board, which is a market pricing a player who is not currently starting.

The Richest Contract Ever Given to a Centre

On 9 March Las Vegas signed Tyler Linderbaum away from Baltimore on three years for 81 million dollars.

At 27 million a year that is the richest contract any centre has been given, nine million a year above the previous mark.

Baltimore would not match the three year structure, which is what it cost to move him.

Two days later the Raiders sent Geno Smith and a seventh round pick to the Jets for a sixth, returning him to the club that drafted him in 2013.

Smith had thrown a league leading seventeen interceptions.

They had already traded the receiver Jakobi Meyers to Jacksonville at the November deadline for fourth and sixth round picks.

Holding the number one waiver priority as the worst team of last season, Las Vegas claimed the cornerback Darrell Luter Jr from San Francisco.

The Canadian offensive lineman Niklas Henning signed to the practice squad on 31 August.

He was taken second overall by the Toronto Argonauts in this year's CFL draft and chose the NFL instead.

Odds correct at time of publication and subject to change.

The Case Either Way

The case for is that the floor cannot get lower.

A club that scored 241 points has added a Super Bowl winning offensive coordinator as head coach, the best paid centre in football and the first overall pick.

The case against is that it has also chosen not to play the first overall pick, and that a 38 year old quarterback is the plan rather than the bridge.

Las Vegas are 1.62 to go over 5.5 regular season wins, a line set two and a half games above what they managed.

The number that matters is 4.4 yards a play. Kubiak's last offence averaged a great deal more than that, and the whole appointment is a bet that the difference travels.