What a time of the year to be a bookmaker.
First, all of the college football bowl games and I wrote about how crazy the markets are with these lately because of all of the changes, opt-outs, transfers, etc. Now the final week of the NFL regular season and the playoff scenarios, backup quarterbacks, who needs the game, who's sitting their starters – and now we have the NFL's decision to cancel the Bills-Bengals game and how all that went down with the seeding, the coin flip. I gotta tell ya, it's been a hectic few weeks for sure. The official Nevada rotation is all out of whack this week versus when some of these games are actually being played, so let's call it, “semi-official” Nevada rotation order. Here we go . . . Kansas City Chiefs (-9, 52.5) at Las Vegas RaidersWe opened this Chiefs -9.5 before the Monday night game. Then the speculation was that Kansas City was going to get home-field advantage regardless and this game's meaning to them took a blow, so the number went down to 7.5. As it stands now, they might need the game, so we're back up to 9 on the Chiefs. We have good two-way action on the game. One wise guy bought the game up to 10 with the Raiders when we were at 9.5 for a decent-sized bet. Some sharps laid the 7.5, but good action both ways on this game. We opened the total 52.5. The first bet was on the Over and we went to 53, now we are back down to 52.5. Really good action on this total.
Tennessee Titans at Jacksonville Jaguars (-6.5, 40)We opened the Jaguars 7. They took the 7, took the 6.5. We went to 6 and we got a lot of money laying the 6, some wise guy money but mostly public and enough to move me back to 6.5. Sharp money took the 7 but it has been mostly public money since then, both ways. We opened the total 40 and haven't had any movement.
New York Jets at Miami Dolphins (-3, 37)A lot of movement here. This is a crazy one. We opened the Dolphins -2.5. They bet us the Jets all the way down. They took 2.5, took 2, and we wound up going to pick-’em. Then they started betting the Dolphins at pick, they laid 1, they laid 2, and we are now at Dolphins -3. We opened the total 39.5. They bet me Under 39.5, Under 38.5, and we're down to 37. Part of this is on the news that Joe Flacco will start for the Jets. We were at Miami -2.5 and when that came out we got bet up to Miami -3.
Los Angeles Rams at Seattle Seahawks (-6, 41.5)