The 0-2 team comes home off a road loss. You want facts that prepare you for positive-expectation situations! Facts are that teams in the Oakland situation are 15-5-2 ATS over the last 11 pre-seasons. It?s about making your reads, like a quarterback does as he drops back to throw. It?s about a road team being 2-0 and traveling off a short week and a win, vs. a home team being 0-2 and coming home to play in front of the home fans for the first time in 2005. Those Raiders fans watched some brutally bad football in 2004, head coach Norv Turner?s first as the leader of Raider Nation. After a pair of road games to open the pre-season, both against home teams in positive-expectation situations (49ers, head coach in home debut; Houston, home off a home loss), not only does this figure as the game for Norv to have Oakland the most cranked, but he also lands on the positive-karma end of the deal for the first time. Six days later, the 17-7 lead he took into the locker room last Saturday night in Houston probably stays that large or increases. Why should it be 17-7 at the half? Well, Arizona trailed Kansas City 17-0 at the half last Saturday night and the Raiders have better wide receivers than the Chiefs.