Sharp bettors feast on Thanksgiving Day sides

Canned cranberry condiment makes astir lists of worst Thanksgiving broadside dishes.

But seeing it served connected a crockery successful the signifier of a can, with those hilarious reddish ridges, brings backmost fond memories of childhood.

The aforesaid goes for the Detroit Lions. They’re arguably the worst franchise successful NFL history, but watching them play connected Thanksgiving is simply a comforting tradition.

That said, cranberry sauce, greenish legume casserole and Brussels sprouts mightiness beryllium easier to tummy than Thursday morning’s matchup betwixt the winless Lions (0-9-1, 6-4 ATS) and Chicago Bears (3-7, 4-6 ATS).

Thankfully, a wager connected a crippled ever makes it much appetizing. The Bears are 3-point favorites aft the enactment opened astatine 3½ and the full is 41½.

LIONS (+3) implicit Bears

Sharp bettors backed Detroit +3½ astatine the South Point sportsbook. Wizardraceandsports.com handicapper “Dr. Alan” Dumond, a two-time top-five finisher successful the Westgate SuperContest, inactive recommends a play connected the Lions +3.

“The Bears are connected a five-game losing streak and person been dealing with the distraction that manager Matt Nagy whitethorn beryllium fired soon, which has taken the absorption disconnected of their mentation for this game,” said Dumond, who has a 47-30 ATS grounds (61 percent) this play with wagers connected each crippled documented connected the website.

“The Lions volition beryllium motivated to get their archetypal triumph of the play successful beforehand of their location assemblage and whitethorn invited backmost starting backmost Jared Goff,” Dumond said. “We’ll telephone for the Lions to get disconnected the schneid and get their triumph connected Thanksgiving Day.”

Circa Sports oddsmaker Chris Bennett said helium lowered the enactment to -3 connected Tuesday amid reports that Goff was trending successful the close direction.

“It’s conscionable hard to person the Bears laying points. They’re conscionable not good,” helium said. “The Lions are the worst squad successful the NFL. But you’ve got to deliberation they’re going to beryllium fired up and treating this crippled similar the Super Bowl, due to the fact that cipher wants to person a winless season.

“If they don’t triumph this game, the anticipation of being winless becomes precise real.”

Detroit, which has mislaid 15 of the past 20 games connected the holiday, is +136 connected the wealth enactment astatine Circa.

Surviving Thanksgiving

Only 134 entries are inactive live successful the Circa Survivor contest, which pays $6 cardinal to the victor and considers Thanksgiving Day a abstracted contention week.

Of the remaining entries, 82 person Dallas disposable to play Thursday and 29 person Buffalo available. That means that astatine slightest 23 entries volition person their changeable astatine $6 cardinal riding connected the Lions, Bears, Saints oregon Raiders.

Professional sports bettor Jeff Whitelaw has 1 introduction near successful Survivor and is playing the Cowboys, statement 7½-point favorites implicit the Raiders aft the enactment opened astatine 7. The full is 51½.

Sharp plays

Circa took crisp wealth connected Dallas -7. But Whitelaw said his wagers volition beryllium connected the presumption of Cowboys receiver CeeDee Lamb, who is questionable successful concussion protocol. Dallas wideout Amari Cooper is retired successful COVID-19 protocol.

“If CeeDee Lamb plays, I would benignant of favour Dallas,” Whitelaw said. “But if Lamb is out, I would person to play that crippled nether due to the fact that present you instrumentality some receivers retired and they couldn’t people against Kansas City, which has a anemic defense.”

The Cowboys are 31-21-1 wide connected Thanksgiving, but are connected a 1-9 dispersed descent connected the holiday.

Circa took crisp enactment connected the Bills -4½ and -5½ implicit the Saints successful the nightcap. Buffalo is simply a statement 6-point favourite astatine New Orleans and the full is 45½.

Both teams are coming disconnected lopsided losses, but the Saints are riddled with injuries and mightiness beryllium missing moving backs Alvin Kamara and Mark Ingram.

“That was a melodramatic enactment move. It jumped a afloat 1½ to 2 points,” Red Rock Resort sportsbook manager Chuck Esposito said. “We’ve seen the Saints’ discourtesy truly conflict with Trevor Siemian, and they could beryllium without their apical 2 moving backs successful this game.”

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