‘Bloodbath’ for sportsbooks as NFL betting favorites dominate

Once oregon doubly a season, astir each the NFL favorites screen and the betting nationalist buries the bookmakers.

Sunday was 1 of those rare, glorious days for bettors.

Favorites went 7-0 ATS successful the 10 a.m. games and 8-4 ATS wide arsenic Las Vegas sportsbooks got destroyed.

Caesars Sportsbook and BetMGM each reported multimillion-dollar losses.

“It’s a bloodbath,” Caesars vice president of trading Craig Mucklow said. “There’s going to beryllium plentifulness of wealth to play with astatine Caesars, that’s for sure.”

The South Point, Station Casinos and Westgate SuperBook besides suffered their worst losing time of the season.

“The publication got perfectly crushed,” SuperBook manager John Murray said.

Bettors cashed countless parlays that included fashionable favorites specified arsenic the Packers (-5½, 24-14 implicit Chicago), Chiefs (-6½, 31-13 implicit Washington) and Rams (-7½, 38-11 implicit Giants).

“This is 1 of the amended Sundays I tin retrieve for the players,” Red Rock Resort sportsbook manager Chuck Esposito said. “I’ve seen much five-, six- and seven-team parlays cashed astatine the model than I tin remember.”

Golden Nugget sportsbook manager Tony Miller posted connected Twitter that “this is conscionable 1 of those days erstwhile I conscionable wanna spell home, fastener myself successful my country with a afloat vessel of Knob Creek.”

Dallas delivers monolithic stroke to books

The biggest plaything of the day, by far, was erstwhile the Cowboys rallied to screen arsenic 4-point favorites implicit the Patriots successful a 35-29 overtime triumph astatine New England. The crippled featured 5 pb changes successful the 4th fourth and overtime, capped by Dak Prescott’s 35-yard touchdown walk to CeeDee Lamb.

Dallas went up 26-21 with 2:27 to spell erstwhile Mac Jones threw a pick-six returned 42 yards by Trevon Diggs. The Patriots took a 29-26 pb with 2:11 near erstwhile Jones threw a 75-yard touchdown walk to Kendrick Bourne and a two-point walk to Jakobi Meyers.

Prescott completed a 24-yard walk to Lamb connected third-and-25 to acceptable up Zuerlein’s tying 49-yard tract extremity with 20 seconds left. New England punted from midfield to unfastened OT earlier Prescott directed an 80-yard TD thrust arsenic the Cowboys remained the NFL’s lone 6-0 squad ATS.

“To person Dallas triumph and screen and the crippled to spell implicit (50½), it took truthful overmuch for that to happen,” Murray said. “It’s inactive benignant of hard to judge it happened. It was conscionable a disaster. New England would’ve saved america and we thought they had the crippled won.”

Mucklow said the effect was an eight-figure plaything astatine Caesars.

“If the Patriots would’ve won consecutive up, it would’ve been a large effect for america but the Cowboys winning and covering is simply a monumental effect for the public,” helium said. “They handed it to america (Sunday).”

Caesars bettors placed 8 $500,000 wagers and won 7 of them, including 2 connected the Cardinals +3½ (beat Browns 37-14), the Vikings wealth enactment (beat Panthers 34-28 successful OT), Colts -9½ (beat Texans 31-3), Bengals -3 (beat Lions 34-11), Ravens -2½ (beat Chargers 34-6) and Dallas ML.

“Given the size of the bets we take, erstwhile we win, we triumph big. When we lose, we suffer badly,” Mucklow said.

The lone $500,000 loser was connected the Patriots +3½ successful the 2nd fractional (lost 25-15).

Popular underdogs

The 3 underdogs that won outright were fashionable nationalist plays. The Jaguars (+3) snapped a 20-game losing streak successful a 23-20 triumph implicit the Dolphins successful London; Arizona improved to 6-0 successful its rout of Cleveland; and the Raiders (+5) responded to Jon Gruden’s abrupt departure with a 34-24 triumph astatine Denver.

“Customers could not get capable of the Cardinals each week,” Mucklow said.

Silver and Black lining

The Raiders and Ravens were the lone winners for BetMGM and the biggest winners for the SuperBook, wherever the Broncos closed arsenic 5-point favorites.

“Everybody benignant of jumped vessel connected the Raiders,” Murray said. “All these wiseguys were connected Denver and the nationalist was connected Denver, and the Raiders went retired and got a large win.”

Contact newsman Todd Dewey astatine tdewey@reviewjournal.com. Follow @tdewey33 connected Twitter.