All the early money the first week was on Pittsburgh. There was some late money on Seattle, but I don't think it was that significant. |
Every year sees more and more of a trend of underdogs upsetting the favorites. (This year) the underdogs are live underdogs, meaning they have a chance to win the game straight up. |
I felt if there was a time for the Colts to be ripe for the picking, it was this game, and I said it before the game. It was almost a month since they played a meaningful game with all their starters, and you risk losing intensity going into the playoffs. |
I picked Carolina at the beginning of the season to get to the Super Bowl. Seattle does not impress me. |
I'd like to take a mulligan on that game. We put up a bad line. |
I'm excited about the possibility. It's a huge promotion for me. Opportunities like this come only once in your career. |
It was the only show that focused on sports betting, and it was a pretty brave move because no one had put sports betting out for mass audiences before. It was kind of frowned upon. But it paid off for the exposure. |
It's a great amount of responsibility and it's not something that we ever take lightly. All the other books in Nevada look to our opening numbers, and there's a lot of money that gets bet on those lines. |
It's scary when you first put them up because you don't know where you're going to get hit. You might do a great job and put up solid lines on 98 games, but get pounded on two games. |
Not only is it tough to do, there's not a whole lot of people who want to do it. |
Seattle was expected to win. Pittsburgh went through the one, two, and three seeds, and a lot of people think the AFC from top-to-bottom was a lot better conference than the NFC. |
Sometimes your fate in this profession is decided by a field goal. Two of our biggest games last year we're decided by safeties. Safeties. |
The radar was more up on them after their run last year. But going into the tournament, they didn't play too well down the stretch. |
We know it carries a great deal of responsibility. It's not something we take lightly. |
We'll be having a lot of meetings in the coming months to determine exactly what will happen. |