Who's ready for another wild weekend of winning or whining? All of us! Who learned our lesson last weekend? None of us! So, with that, the action didn't waste any time making the collective betting community yell with joy or pain.
New York Jets at Miami Dolphins
Raise your hand if you were googling playoff scenarios if this game ended in a tie, and then realized how gross it felt that you even had to type that into your search engine. The Dolphins were clinging to their playoff hopes and punched their ticket with the clinching field goal late.
Jason Sanders hits a clutch 50-yd field goal to give the @MiamiDolphins the late lead in the 4th 🐬 #FinsUp | #NFLTwitter@kickerupdate January 8, 2023
But as we always say, good teams win -- great teams cover. Yet again I'm forced to type pitchy pitchy woo woo in an article, and I am left to wonder why SVP couldn't coin a shorter phrase. Miami heads to the playoffs and gives Dolphins bettors plenty of reason to celebrate!
JETS (+3.5) IS A BRUTAL BEAT 🤮 Dolphins cover on the safety on the last play of the game@actionnetworkhq January 8, 2023
5 buckets of joyful playoff tears.
Kansas City Chiefs at Las Vegas Raiders
The hurt is real. I'm still reeling about how wrong I was about my beloved Raiders this season, and now I have plenty of people sharing in my misery! There's nothing worse than watching my team lose, but they also made sure a bunch of y'all lost money.
Kelce destroyed the Raiders earlier this season, so an anytime bet to score a touchdown seemed safe ... But it wasn't.
Travis Kelce (-160) was the most bet player @BetMGM to score a TD in Chiefs-Raiders... He came THIS close to scoring 😬 @actionnetworkhq January 7, 2023
That wasn't the only "What. The. Football" moment. Vegas was driving to try to keep this game reasonably close as the half came to an end only to turn the ball over to KC with only seconds remaining, which gave us this moment.
After a Jarrett Stidham fumble with 9 seconds left, Harrison Butker nails a 44-yarder to end the half... Tough one for 1H Under 26.5 bettors 😓@actionnetworkhq January 7, 2023
0 buckets. I have no tears left to cry.