We take a look at the best bets available for Patriots vs. Raiders Week 15 matchup available on DraftKings Sportsbook, including our favorite player prop.
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Hmmm, blog post on Draftkings advises in a manner favorable to the Patriots, thus inducing many readers to follow their advice.
Come game time, refs at a critical juncture, grants the Raiders a TD when the evidence does not support it.
The Patriots then do something completely out of character of that team and essentially executed a play to give the win to Vegas Raiders. This also causes a mass of sad, unhappy monkeys that followed the Draftkings blog advice.
Sports betting companies make money by collecting a commission on losing bets, which is often called the vigorish.
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Draftkings is likely get a juicy bunch of vig money from those impressionable sports betters that followed that blog post.
However, because of the way the Patriots ended that game, this game should serve to highlight and give suspicion to the integrity of the refs in determining outcomes favorable for the betting companies.
The ending is far more memorable because the Pats lost in an unusual, abnormal, unconventional fashion.
There was a highly sus call even after review that granted the Raiders a TD.
Belichick likely sniffed the corruption, and decided that rather than fight the inevitable and risk injury, he'll give Vegas betting what they wanted but at a cost of notoriety via a memorable ending. Thus, the players were given license to lateral on the final play rather than follow the usual convention of going to OT.
Not only that, but both Rhamondre Stevenson and Jakobi Meyers were mentioned in that article, and they both happened to touch the ball on the Pats' final play.