Books rack up Week 6 win

Books rack up Week 6 win
By Micah Roberts
VegasInsider.com

It was a dog day afternoon in Las Vegas sports books with 10 of the 12 Sunday NFL games going to the underdog and eight of them winning outright. It wasn't the best win of the young season so far, but Week 6 produced another winner for the house.

"We had a good Saturday and a good Saturday, which is a rarity for us on the same weekend," said MGM Resorts hub manager Jeff Stoneback.

The books are on a roll and lately the bettors have been in a quandary; they're confused on what teams to wager on. They can no longer trust their favorite teams. Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook VP Jay Kornegay said they lost only one game on Sunday. One game? That's insanely good for the house. It was the same story everywhere around town.

"We won seven of the first 11 games -- the public had a rough day," Stoneback said. "Almost everything went our way -- parlays cards, teasers, money-line parlays."

The start to the romp over the public was the Atlanta Falcons blowing a 17-0 lead at home at losing 20-17 to Miami, who got as high as a 14-point underdog at the South Point in Las Vegas.

"The Dolphins beating the Falcons was our biggest game just becase it was tied into so other games," said Stoneback. "The next best for us was the Jets and Vikings winning outright."

The New York Jets were getting +9 against the Patriots and jumped out to a 14-point lead, but New England hung on for a 24-17 win.

"Solid day with the big win for us on the Vikings," said Station Casinos sports book director Jason McCormick. "The Texans cover was a nice straight bet win as well as 'dogs such as the Jets (+9), 49ers (+9), Cardinals (+2) and Dolphins covering. We continue to do well in teasers each week and beating the teasers and big money-line parlays going down. Rams (+2.5) and Steelers (+4) were losers for us in the afternoon. Lions-Saints Over (51) was also bet heavily and cashed."

The big deveolpement on the day was Aaron Rodgers separating his shoulder in Green Bay's 23-10 loss at Minnesota (+3).

"We adjusted all of our futures in the NFC because of Rodgers impact," said Stoneback. "We dropped the Eagles, Seahawks, Vikings and Saints. Rodgers is at least worth a TD. The difference between his worth and Brady is because Brady has a much better back-up with Garoppolo. Brett Hundley didn't look so good."

I'm thinking Rodgers is worth up to nine points which makes him easily the most important quarterback in the NFL.

An interesting angle for Green bay here is making a trade and it seems like the New York Giants have an agenda of getting USC QB Sam Darnold in the draft. They beat the Broncos, 23-10, as a 14-point underdog Sunday night, but how about trading Eli Manning to Green Bay. Rodgers could be out the entire season, so why not get a replacement. Manning would fit nice at Lambeau Field.

On the other side of that Denver loss, the Broncos QB woes were magnified even more. Trevor Siemien is horrendous and he's not the future. Paxton Lynch isn't the answer, nor is Brock Osweiler. Maybe Chad Kelly?

Best of luck this week my people.

Good luck and pick smart!