2024 NFL Bad Beats: Last second safety gives Texans cover

Each week within the NFL, bettors, sportsbooks or each bemoan some type of a nasty beat. 

Whether or not it is a unfold decide, a moneyline guess, or a wager on the whole factors scored — there’s all the time one prevalence that impacts just a few bets.

Within the Divisional Spherical sport between the Chiefs and the Texans, it was the purpose unfold that triggered bettors some ache. 

Let’s try the way it all went down. 

Intentional security ruins cowl for KC unfold bettors

This was a extremely contested sport from the leap, with no touchdowns being scored till the second quarter. Kansas Metropolis led 6-3 after the primary, earlier than going up 13-6 to finish the second quarter. 

With the two-time defending Tremendous Bowl champions taking over the Texans, a group that entered the matchup 0-5 all-time within the Divisional Spherical, a number of bettors took the Chiefs to cowl the unfold— which closed at 9.5. 

With a seven-point lead at half, the duvet was wanting attainable. However then C.J. Stroud and the Texans engineered a 15-play drive that went 82 yards and resulted in a 13-yard landing run by Joe Mixon. The rating was now 13-12, after Ka’imi Fairbairn missed the additional level.

Out of the blue, it was a sweat.

The Chiefs wanted to attain in a rush to have a shot at protecting, they usually did. Patrick Mahomes led a 13-play drive that went 81 yards, ending with a Travis Kelce landing. The rating was now 20 to 12, with 11:52 left within the fourth quarter. Two issues needed to occur subsequent— the Chiefs needed to get a cease, after which wanted a minimum of a discipline aim on the next offensive possession. 

And in traditional Chiefs vogue, each of these issues occurred. They went up 23-12 with 4:38 left— the primary time all sport that they had been protecting the unfold. On the Texans subsequent drive, the protection miraculously blocked a discipline aim— almost guaranteeing the duvet was locked up.

Till it wasn’t.

With 1:46 left within the sport, the Chiefs ran one play for 4 yards earlier than taking two knees to make it 4th-and-15 on KC’s 18-yard line with 11 seconds left within the sport. Kansas Metropolis lined as much as punt, however to play it secure and keep away from giving up a attainable punt return— punter Matt Araiza ran out of the end-zone and purposefully took a security.

The ultimate rating was 23-14, and Chiefs unfold bettors misplaced their wager in a matter of seconds. Actually an unthinkable dangerous beat. 

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