Sports Betting Spotlight: Oakland Raiders season preview

By Todd Dewey / Las Vegas Review-Journal

August 9, 2018 - 10:10 am

Oakland Raiders head coach Jon Gruden replies to media questions at the team's NFL training camp in Napa, Calif., Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2018. Heidi Fang Las Vegas Review-Journal @HeidiFang

Las Vegas handicapper Kelly Stewart and Wynn Las Vegas sports book director Johnny Avello join the Review-Journal’s Todd Dewey to preview the Oakland Raiders’ season in the fourth of a series of 32 NFL team videos.

The Raiders went 6-10 last season and their 2018 win total is 8 (Over minus 125) as Jon Gruden returns to coaching for the first time since 2008.

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