Chiefs consensus Super Bowl favorites at sportsbooks

After starting the play arsenic 5-1 co-favorites with the Buccaneers to triumph Super Bowl LVI, the Chiefs’ likelihood soared arsenic precocious arsenic 16-1 pursuing a 3-4 start.

But aft Kansas City crushed the Raiders 48-9 connected Sunday for its sixth consecutive triumph and 4th consecutive cover, the Chiefs are the statement Super Bowl favorites astatine Las Vegas sportsbooks.

The two-time defending AFC champions are the 5-1 favorites astatine Circa Sports, +450 favorites astatine the Westgate SuperBook and the South Point, and the 4-1 favorites astatine Boyd Gaming.

After allowing an mean of 29.0 points successful their archetypal 7 games, the Chiefs person allowed lone 10.8 ppg during their six-game winning streak, limiting their past 3 opponents to 9 points each portion posting for a play precocious successful points against the Silver and Black.

“After what we’ve seen the past 3 weeks, it would beryllium intolerable not to see Kansas City the champion squad successful the league close now,” Westgate SuperBook manager John Murray said. “Their defence is playing arsenic good arsenic immoderate successful the league, and their backmost is arsenic bully arsenic immoderate backmost successful the league.

“It’s benignant of brainsick to deliberation Patrick Mahomes volition participate the postseason with a ascendant defense. But close present they are a ascendant defense.”

Bucs would outgo BetMGM large bucks

Defending Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay is the +425 favourite astatine BetMGM, followed by Kansas City astatine +550. But MGM Resorts manager of trading Jeff Stoneback said the Bucs are the favorites mostly due to the fact that they correspond the largest liability astatine MGM, which has taken aggregate five-figure bets connected Tampa to repeat, including a $50,000 wager astatine 9-1, a $25,000 stake astatine 8-1 and a $30,000 wager astatine 7-1.

The Bucs are the +550 2nd prime astatine Circa, South Point and the SuperBook.

“I inactive deliberation the Buccaneers person a batch of holes connected that defense,” Murray said. “Their secondary looks atrocious astatine times.”

Tampa Bay and Kansas City are 4-1 co-favorites astatine Station Casinos.

“The 2 teams that met past twelvemonth are benignant of connected a collision people astatine this point,” Red Rock Resort sportsbook manager Chuck Esposito said. “If you had asked maine a period ago, I wouldn’t enactment the Chiefs successful that category. But the Bills stubbed their toe, the Ravens person had injuries and I don’t cognize if (Derrick) Henry volition beryllium backmost for the Titans.

“The biggest imaginable menace to the Chiefs could beryllium the Patriots.”

New England, riding a seven-game triumph and screen streak, is tied with the Packers arsenic the 7-1 3rd prime astatine Circa and BetMGM.

Heavy enactment connected Army-Navy

The books took dense enactment connected Saturday’s standalone Army-Navy game.

“Army-Navy was the highest grip assemblage shot crippled of the year,” Murray said.

Navy upset Army 17-13 arsenic a 7-point underdog and the crippled went nether the full of 35½ for the 16th consecutive season.

“Navy winning outright was large for us. We had immoderate large bets connected Army,” Murray said. “One feline stake america $50,000 connected the under, but we had truthful overmuch implicit wealth it didn’t adjacent determination the number.

“It was a tiny slate, but it was 1 of our champion Saturdays of the year.”

A Caesars Sportsbook bettor won large connected the under, cashing a $135,000 wager connected nether 35½ and a $150,000 stake connected nether 16 successful the 2nd half.

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