We embrace rookie and young first year QBs because they get little respect from the oddsmaker. Matt McGloin will be with a team that is more experienced at playing with him than Tennessee has intel to stop him. He breathes new life into the Raiders, while the Titans are setback from Jake Locker getting a season ending injury in his breakout season.

With 10 new starters, the Raiders just a few weeks ago had the 10th-ranked defense in the NFL (the anomaly that was the blowout loss to Philadelphia has them at No. 17 overall now), and they currently have the No. 6 rushing defense. Last year, Oakland was 18th against the run.

Rashad Jennings is another breakout player for Oakland. He has rushed for 340 yards on a 6.0-yards-per carry average over his last three games. His 3.2 yards-per-carry-after-contact average is tops in the NFL among players with at least 20 carries