Well, depending upon what combination of teams you used from this column in Week 17, it could have been a successful week.
We started out with the Los Angeles Rams (9-7) blowing the cover as 6.5-point favorites against the New York Giants (5-11) thanks to a late 94-yard punt return for TD with just 3:27 left in regulation by the New York. To make matters worse, the Giants elected to go for a 2-point conversion and failed, leaving the score Rams 26-25 and taking overtime out of the equation for a potential cover for L.A.
That was the 1st leg of last week’s parlay, and the only loser. We benefited from the backdoor cover as 3.5-point underdogs when the Las Vegas Raiders (7-9) scored a TD vs. the Indianapolis Colts (9-7) with just 43 seconds left to slice the lead to 23-20, which ended up being the final.
We had the Arizona Cardinals (4-12) catching 12.5 points from the Philadelphia Eagles (11-5) on the road. Something is off with the Eagles, but no one expected an outright 35-31 victory by Arizona. The loss for the Eagles is equivalent of a Q4 loss in college hoops. If this was college football, Philly might be left out of the College Football Playoffs by the committee. Thankfully, the NFL doesn’t use that idiotic system.