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It’s ne'er easy.
Even connected 1 of the champion NFL Sundays of the play for the betting public. Even erstwhile their beloved favorites spell 10-2 ATS and overs spell 8-3-1.
Las Vegas sportsbooks mislaid millions connected 1 of their worst days of the NFL season. But bettors had to sweat retired respective of the biggest decisions, including adjacent covers by the Green Bay Packers, Dallas Cowboys, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and San Francisco 49ers.
“For once, determination were atrocious beats for the book,” Caesars Sportsbook vice president of trading Craig Mucklow said. “Usually it’s the different mode around.”
BetMGM and Caesars each reported a seven-figure loss, the SuperBook reported a six-figure nonaccomplishment and Station Casinos besides reported a large losing day.
The books were buried with parlays to the Packers, who closed arsenic 12-point favorites implicit the Bears connected “Sunday Night Football” astatine Lambeau Field.
“If the Packers cover, it volition beryllium an historical day,” Mucklow said earlier the game.
Green Bay and implicit 43 was the doomsday script for the books.
“If the Packers cover, it whitethorn beryllium the worst time of the twelvemonth due to the fact that of each the parlays,” MGM Resorts manager of trading Jeff Stoneback said beforehand.
The full flew implicit successful the archetypal fractional arsenic Chicago took a 27-21 lead. But Green Bay opened the 2nd fractional with 24 consecutive points to spell up 45-27 with 4:33 left.
After a Bears tract extremity with 1:26 to go, each the Packers had to bash was retrieve the onside footwear to extremity it. But they failed to bash that, making their backers sweat immoderate much connected a acold nighttime successful the valley.
Green Bay bettors could yet exhale aft Justin Fields threw an interception with 53 seconds near arsenic the Packers won 45-30 and covered to headdress a glorious time for bettors.
Close covers
The Bucs, 3½-point favorites implicit the Bills, appeared to beryllium cruising to an casual screen with a 24-3 halftime lead.
But Buffalo outscored Tampa Bay 24-3 successful the 2nd fractional to unit overtime and propulsion Bucs bettors to the brink, settling for a tying tract extremity connected fourth-and-2 astatine the 7-yard enactment with 22 seconds near successful regulation.
Needing a touchdown successful OT to bail retired Tampa Bay bettors, Tom Brady delivered a 58-yard TD walk to Breshad Perriman to assistance the Bucs to a 33-27 triumph and cover.
Costly other point
The Cowboys closed arsenic 6½-point favorites implicit Washington aft the enactment steamed from -4½ connected Saturday due to the fact that of COVID-19 absences connected the Football Team. Dallas led 24-0 astatine the fractional and the screen wasn’t successful uncertainty until precocious successful the game.
Washington scored a TD with 5:09 near to marque it 27-14 and was successful presumption to pain Cowboys bettors who laid 6½ erstwhile Dak Prescott threw a pick-6 to marque it 27-20 with 4:13 to go. But Dallas blocked the other constituent and held connected for the 27-20 triumph and cover.
Niners and overtime
The 49ers, -2 implicit the Bengals, were up 20-6 successful the 2nd fractional erstwhile Cincinnati rallied for 2 fourth-quarter TDs to nonstop the crippled to OT.
The Bengals went up with a tract goal. But Jimmy Garoppolo answered with a 12-yard TD walk to Brandon Aiyuk that gave San Francisco a 26-23 triumph and screen and pushed the crippled implicit the total.
“The worst-case script for america was the 49ers and over,” Stoneback said. “When it goes to OT, the lone mode we tin suffer that stake is if the Bengals footwear a tract extremity and the 49ers spell down and people a touchdown. And that’s what happened.
“That was our time successful a nutshell.”
Biggest losers
Other large losers for the books were the Titans (-8½, bushed Jaguars 20-0), Broncos (-12½, bushed Lions 38-10), Saints (-4½, bushed Jets 30-9) and Seahawks (-9½, bushed Texans 33-13).
The biggest victor for the books was the Ravens (+2½), who rallied from a 24-3 shortage for a backdoor screen successful a 24-22 nonaccomplishment to the Browns.
“It could’ve been a batch worse,” Westgate SuperBook manager John Murray said. “One of our biggest needs was Baltimore, who had nary concern covering astatine all.”
Surprisingly, BetMGM’s lone important victor was the Chiefs (-10), who whipped the Raiders 48-9 to screen and propulsion the crippled implicit the full of 48.
“There was a batch of wealth connected the Raiders and they stake the under, too,” Stoneback said. “It’s not excessively often we request the Chiefs and over.”
Contact newsman Todd Dewey astatine tdewey@reviewjournal.com. Follow @tdewey33 connected Twitter.
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