The Cardinals have found yet another way to be embarrassing:
https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-suspends-cardinals-personnel-executive-ryan-gold-indefinitely-for-violating-league-s-gambling-policy
I would walk a mile every Thursday to the drug store that carried PFW, then loiter in the store and look for the little paragraph about how the Cardinals lost again. When I could afford to actually buy an issue, I'd chart all the stats on graph paper and convince myself that the Cardinals...
Well this is fun. The Athletic put out some #content today on "NFL offseason winners and losers".
Their winners were the Rams, Ravens, Browns, Cowboys, and Raiders.
Losers were the Jaguars, Cardinals, Packers, and Dolphins.
Yeah, that doesn't say anything about him betting "unders" or betting against his teammates. In fact, the quote in the last paragraph below strongly suggests that he only bet FOR his team or teammates:
He didn't place "a couple of 20 dollar bets" - he placed more than 9,000 bets totaling at least $90,000, including 40 bets on his own team. In his own words: "What started small when I was in high school turned into a daily habit of betting on all kinds of sports, including some sports that I...
Well betting the unders isn't really betting against your teammates, it's just betting on a low-scoring game. It's pro-defense and anti-offense I guess.
Regardless, has this been reported anywhere? Your post is the first I've seen anything more than that he bet "on his own team's games"...
Also... got a citation for that?
Penix, McCarthy, and Nix were still on the board and it turns out that teams coveted them. Are you sure none of them was willing to move up to #4?