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The location doesn’t ever win.
NFL bettors dealt Las Vegas sportsbooks their archetypal losing week of the play connected what was a large Sunday for fashionable nationalist teams.
“We don’t triumph each week,” Caesars Sportsbook vice president of trading Craig Mucklow said. “It’s bully to springiness backmost erstwhile successful a while.”
Favorites were 9-5 ATS successful Week 5 — their archetypal winning week of the play — entering the “Sunday Night Football” crippled betwixt the Bills and Chiefs. Bettors won large arsenic the Packers, Buccaneers, Titans, Cowboys and Cardinals each covered the spread.
“It was, by far, the worst time of the year,” MGM Resorts manager of trading Jeff Stoneback said.
The Bills (+3) and implicit (57) was the worst-case script astatine Caesars, which appeared headed for a aggregate seven-figure nonaccomplishment erstwhile the crippled was delayed owed to terrible upwind with Buffalo starring 24-13 astatine halftime.
“Because it’s prime-time parlay liability,” Mucklow said. “The Bills were a sexy pick. It was the archetypal clip I‘ll beryllium cheering connected a Chiefs cover.”
Buffalo and implicit besides would’ve accrued BetMGM’s nonaccomplishment to astir 7 figures, with Green Bay’s chaotic 25-22 overtime triumph accounting for a large chunk of that.
Stuck successful the middle
Books got middled, oregon mislaid connected some sides, aft the Packers opened arsenic 3½-point favorites and the enactment closed astatine -2½.
“The worst-case script was the Packers winning by 3,” Stoneback said. “Early crisp wealth came successful connected the Bengals +3½ and each the nationalist wealth was connected the Packers -2½ and everybody won.”
It was the heaviest stake crippled of the time astatine Caesars, wherever bettors had $275,000 connected nether 50 and 7 figures of enactment connected Cincinnati, including $300,000 connected the wealth line, $500,000 +3 and $500,000 +3½.
“If the Bengals would’ve won, it would’ve been a bloodbath,” Mucklow said.
After Cincinnati rallied to necktie the crippled precocious successful regulation, the teams combined to miss 5 consecutive tract goals successful the past 2:14 of regularisation and overtime.
Packers kicker Mason Crosby missed 3 successful a enactment earlier helium yet delivered a 49-yard crippled winner.
“Our hearts were successful our mouths connected that game,” Mucklow said. “The trading country got large precise quickly. On each missed tract goal, it was crazy.”
Rising Arizona
Arizona (5-0) remained the NFL’s lone unbeaten squad aft it defeated the 49ers 17-10 arsenic 6-point favorites.
“That’s the motion of a bully squad that the Cardinals don’t person to triumph a shootout each week,” Red Rock Resort sportsbook manager Chuck Esposito said. “They tin triumph a low-scoring crippled arsenic well.”
Caesars took 3 large bets connected the nether (48½) and large wagers that cashed connected the Cardinals’ archetypal fractional and 49ers’ 2nd half.
“That outgo america conscionable abbreviated of a cardinal with each those winning,” Mucklow said.
How ‘bout them favorites
— Dallas is the league’s lone 5-0 squad ATS aft it whipped the Giants 44-20 arsenic 7½-point location favorites.
— Tampa Bay easy covered the biggest dispersed of the time successful a 45-17 rout of Miami arsenic 11-point favorites.
— Tennessee (-4) rolled to a 37-19 triumph and screen implicit winless Jacksonville (0-5).
“It was a unsmooth time for us. We didn’t get immoderate upsets,” Westgate SuperBook vice president Jay Kornegay said. “It was not a catastrophe but it was a beauteous dense punch.”
Great escapes
The Raiders helped books flight further harm successful their 20-9 nonaccomplishment to the Bears, who produced the day’s biggest upset arsenic 5½-point underdogs astatine Allegiant Stadium.
“That’s the 1 crippled that truly saved us,” Kornegay said.
The Vikings saved 1,343 $1,000 entries successful the Circa Survivor contention from elimination erstwhile Greg Joseph made a 54-yard tract extremity arsenic clip expired to springiness Minnesota an improbable 19-17 triumph implicit the winless Lions.
Detroit (+10) erased a 10-point shortage successful the last 2:30 and led 17-16 aft caller manager Dan Campbell successfully called for a go-ahead 2-point conversion with 37 seconds left.
New England bailed retired 443 Circa Survivor entries erstwhile it rallied from a 22-9 spread astatine Houston successful a 25-22 win. But the Patriots (-8) were 1 of 5 favorites that didn’t cover.
Contact newsman Todd Dewey astatine tdewey@reviewjournal.com. Follow @tdewey33 connected Twitter.
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