Urban Meyer’s firing, sharp bets move line on Jaguars-Texans game

Sharp bettors are banking connected the Jacksonville Jaguars to payment from a lawsuit of summation by subtraction successful Sunday’s location crippled against the Houston Texans.

The Jaguars climbed from statement 3½-point favorites to 5-point favorites connected Thursday aft Jacksonville manager Urban Meyer was fired Wednesday nighttime aft lone 13 games pursuing a drawstring of missteps with players and coaches.

“I deliberation this helps the Jaguars a lot,” Circa Sports oddsmaker Chris Bennett said.

So bash nonrecreational sports bettors. Bennett said Circa took crisp enactment connected the Jaguars some earlier and aft the quality that Meyer was fired.

“I moved from -4 to -5½ disconnected of a wealth enactment bet,” Bennett said.

Caesars Sportsbook besides took crisp bets connected Jacksonville earlier and aft the news. Vice president of trading Craig Mucklow said the publication took a $250,000 wager connected the Jaguars -3 anterior to the quality “from an relationship we respect.”

After taking different crisp stake connected Jacksonville aft Meyer was fired, Caesars moved the fig from 3½ to 4½.

Mucklow compared the concern to the Raiders, who bushed the Denver Broncos 34-24 arsenic 5-point underdogs successful their archetypal crippled aft manager Jon Gruden abruptly resigned.

“Bettors expect the amended effort, which we saw connected the Raiders’ archetypal game, past a instrumentality to normalcy,” helium said. “It helps that they’re playing a atrocious Texans squad for motivation.”

The Jaguars and Houston are each 2-11. The Texans whipped Jacksonville 37-21 successful their play opener for their seventh consecutive triumph successful the series.

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