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Tom Brady won the breakup with Bill Belichick successful blowout fashion, winning the Super Bowl successful his archetypal play successful Tampa Bay aft 20 years successful New England.
In their archetypal face-to-face gathering since they divided up, the ageless backmost got the champion of his erstwhile manager again. Barely.
The Buccaneers escaped with a 19-17 triumph implicit the Patriots successful the mediate of a downpour successful Foxborough, Massachusetts, erstwhile Nick Folk missed a 56-yard tract extremity effort that deed the near upright with 59 seconds left.
Brady won, contempt not throwing a touchdown walk for the archetypal clip this season. But the immense bulk of bettors mislaid connected the crippled arsenic Tampa Bay failed to screen arsenic 7-point favorites.
“It was a precise affirmative result,” Westgate SuperBook vice president Jay Kornegay said. “I was hoping that tract extremity would beryllium good, but we’ll instrumentality the screen by the Pats. We had a bully day.”
The Bucs were a wildly fashionable play, attracting much than 90 percent of the tickets and wealth wagered connected the crippled astatine BetMGM and different Las Vegas sportsbooks.
“It’s really the biggest regular-season determination I tin remember,” Red Rock Resort sportsbook manager Chuck Esposito said earlier before kickoff. “It’s starting to lucifer adjacent to a Super Bowl-type decision.”
It was a steadfast six-figure determination astatine the SuperBook and BetMGM. The crippled staying nether the full of 49 helped books to different winning day.
“The Bucs and implicit was surely the worst-case script we’ve seen this year,” Kornegay said. “It was our biggest liability of the play to this point.”
Trailing by 1 with 4:34 left, Brady directed a 45-yard thrust to acceptable up Ryan Succop’s game-winning 48-yard tract extremity with 1:57 left.
A Caesars Sportsbook bettor won a $500,000 wager connected the Patriots +7 that paid $454,545.
Underdogs excel again
New England’s screen ensured a 4th consecutive winning week ATS for NFL underdogs, who are 8-6-1 ATS successful Week 4 with six outright upsets, including overtime wins by the antecedently winless Jets and Giants.
“New York, New York. We were singing it backmost here,” Esposito said. “Having those 2 teams winning outright was huge.”
The Jets’ 27-24 triumph implicit the Titans arsenic 5½-point underdogs was the champion determination of the time for the books.
“We were precise thankful for the Jets,” Kornegay said. “They were truly the lone 1 to upset a parlay favourite successful the Titans.”
The Giants outlasted the Saints 27-21 arsenic 7-point underdogs.
Underdogs are 38-24-1 ATS wide this play with 27 outright wins.
Lions’ stock of action
Detroit (0-4) and Jacksonville (0-4) are the league’s lone remaining winless teams aft the Lions mislaid 24-14 to the Bears arsenic a fashionable nationalist 3-point underdog successful 1 of the champion decisions of the time astatine BetMGM.
“I ne'er accidental this, but the nationalist was connected the Lions,” MGM Resorts manager of trading Jeff Stoneback said. “After the pathetic violative show by the Bears past week, determination was a crushed to leap connected the Lions.”
Now there’s a crushed to leap disconnected the Lions again.
Hail to the Chiefs
Bettors yet cashed successful connected Kansas City, which covered the dispersed for the archetypal clip this play and for lone the 3rd clip successful 15 games successful a 42-30 rout of Philadelphia arsenic 7-point favorites.
Kornegay said the Chiefs were the worst determination for the publication successful the greeting games.
“The Chiefs proceed to get a batch of enactment from the public,” helium said.
In the Cards
Arizona (4-0) and the Raiders (3-0) are the league’s lone remaining unbeatens aft the Cardinals crushed the Rams (3-1) 37-20 connected the roadworthy arsenic 4-point underdogs.
“They support impressing,” Kornegay said. “We cognize the Cardinals tin enactment up immoderate points. The question is ever their defense. But the defence played well.”
Bettors won connected the Packers (-6) successful their 27-17 triumph implicit the Steelers.
“We built a coagulated cushion successful the greeting games but went 0-4 successful the day and astir gave it each back,” Kornegay said.
In the different day games, the Ravens (+1) bushed the Broncos 23-7 and the Seahawks (+2½) knocked disconnected the 49ers, 28-21.
Contact newsman Todd Dewey astatine tdewey@reviewjournal.com. Follow @tdewey33 connected Twitter.
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