The Kansas City Chiefs gotaway New York — well, northern New Jersey — with a win. They didn’t leave with a cover.
That’s since Patrick Mahomes understood precisely how much time was on the clock, and precisely how numerous timeouts the New York Jets had left. His Chiefs led 23-20 at the two-minute caution when Kansas City dealtwith third-and-eight from the Jets’ 11-yard line. Mahomes took the snap, moved from the pocket under moderate pressure, and left with space to run — simply like he had to transform third-and-23 4 minutes earlier.
He quickly made it past the line to videogame and had a relatively easy course to the end zone. But rather than provide his Chiefs a nine-point lead and keep New York’s slim return hopes alive, Mahomes moved down in bounds brief of the end zone. The clock kept ticking, and 2 kneeldowns maintained the win — and the Jets’ +8.5-point cover.
Chiefs were 8.5 point favorites. definitely everybody will respond to Mahomes doing the right thing and sealing the game with a slide rationally pic.twitter.com/A2JPgo3u6R
— Christian D’Andrea (@TrainIsland) October 2, 2023
It was the right relocation, even if it crushed Kansas City gamblers and Mahomes’ dream owners alike. Keeping the ball out of the Jets hands gottenridof even the slim possibility of a goal, onside kick healing, then either goal or field objective to win or sendout the videogame to overtime in the last 2 minutes. It mostlikely wouldn’t have occurred with Zach Wilson commanding the opposing offense, however why take that threat?
Needless to state, wagerers left 2 backyards from cashing their Chiefs -8.5 tickets were unamused. Per Darren Rovell, that covered around 91 percent of the dealwith for this videogame at MGM which, phewwwwww.
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