Las Vegas sportsbooks ride major upsets to big NFL Sunday win

Arizona entered Sunday tied for the NFL’s champion grounds and was the second-biggest favourite connected the committee astatine Detroit, which had the league’s worst mark.

But during a week marked by large enactment moves and 3 games postponed due to the fact that of COVID-19, thing went according to plan.

The Lions, who closed arsenic 13-point location underdogs and +550 connected the wealth line, dominated the Cardinals successful a stunning 30-12 victory.

The upset doubled arsenic a large triumph for Las Vegas sportsbooks, which had a large winning time arsenic underdogs went 6-4 ATS with 4 outright wins.

“One of the cardinal games was intelligibly having the Lions winning outright against the Cardinals,” Red Rock Resort sportsbook manager Chuck Esposito said. “That conscionable destroyed astir teasers, parlays and wealth enactment parlays.

“I didn’t deliberation the Cardinals were arsenic bully arsenic the Cowboys, Rams, Buccaneers oregon Packers. I inactive had them arsenic my fifth-best squad successful the NFC.”

Arizona (10-4) mislaid for the 4th clip successful 7 games pursuing a 7-0 start.

Jared Goff outplayed Kyler Murray, throwing 3 touchdown passes and nary interceptions, arsenic Detroit improved to 2-12-1 wide and 9-5 ATS.

“Someone said the Lions mightiness beryllium the champion two-win squad ever,” MGM Resorts manager of trading Jeff Stoneback said.

New Orleans, different double-digit underdog astatine +11½ and +450 connected the wealth line, capped disconnected the time with a shocking 9-0 shutout of Tampa Bay — the NFL’s highest-scoring squad — connected “Sunday Night Football.”

“There are truthful galore question marks each implicit the place,” Esposito said. “But the Packers are intelligibly connected apical successful the NFC and the Chiefs are connected apical successful the AFC.”

Other large winners for the books were the Jets (+10), who covered successful a 31-24 nonaccomplishment to the Dolphins, and the Ravens (+9), who covered successful a 31-30 nonaccomplishment to the Packers.

Ravens rally for cover

The enactment connected Green Bay soared erstwhile Baltimore backmost Lamar Jackson was ruled out. But backup Tyler Huntley accomplished a feat Jackson hasn’t successful throwing for 2 TDs and rushing for 2 TDs to rally the Ravens from a precocious 31-17 deficit.

Baltimore went for 2 and the triumph aft Huntley’s 8-yard TD tally with 42 seconds left. But his two-point walk fell incomplete.

“We had crisp wealth travel successful laying 5½ Thursday and it got arsenic precocious arsenic 9½,” Westgate SuperBook manager John Murray said. “The nationalist was each laying Green Bay. It would’ve been immense for america if Baltimore won. But covering was a bully result.

“Huntley looked beauteous bully to me. He makes radical miss. He tin throw. He tin run.”

Bettors loaded up connected the Jaguars erstwhile manager Urban Meyer was fired and the enactment changeable up from -3½ implicit the Texans to -6. But Houston had nary problems successful a 30-16 win.

In the different outright upset, the Bengals (+3) bushed the Broncos 15-10.

Close covers

The betting nationalist sweated retired winners connected a brace of fashionable favorites successful the Bills and Cowboys. Buffalo (-14½) was up 10 connected Carolina facing a fourth-and-2 astatine the Panthers’ 14 with 2:07 near erstwhile Josh Allen threw a 14-yard TD walk to Gabriel Davis for a 31-14 lead.

Cam Newton past drove Carolina into Bills territory earlier completing a cleanable walk to the hostile to seal Buffalo’s triumph and cover.

The Cowboys (-11½) led the Giants 21-6 successful the last minutes erstwhile New York third-string QB Jake Fromm threatened to present a backdoor cover, driving to the Dallas’ 9-yard line. But aft 4 consecutive incompletions, Cowboys bettors could currency their tickets.

A BetMGM bettor mislaid a $330,000 consecutive stake connected the Giants (+11½) and a $550,000 consecutive stake connected the Falcons (+9), who mislaid 31-13 to the 49ers.

Atlanta turned the shot implicit connected downs 3 times wrong the San Francisco 10-yard line, doubly astatine the 1.

$6M Survivor

Only 16 entries are inactive live successful their quest for the $6 cardinal prize successful the Circa Survivor contest. Of the 23 that started the week, 5 were eliminated by the Cardinals, 1 by the Jaguars and 1 by the Buccaneers. One introduction selected the Vikings implicit the Bears connected “Monday Night Football.”

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