Chiefs Continue to Struggle Against The Spread

Bet against the Kansas City Chiefs Against The Spread?

While that might seem like the perfect strategy, don't think for one second that the oddsmakers are not onto this trend.

The Chiefs have now failed to cover in seven straight games.

They are "due" for an ATS victory next week versus the Browns, one can argue.

We get a line of Chiefs -6.5 with books opening the number at -6.

"It apperas there is a slight underlay with this week's number," remarked Gambling911.com Senior Sports Writer, Don Shapiro.

The Chiefs clinched their ninth straight AFC West championship Sunday night, but none of the first eight were quite like this one.

The 12-1 Chiefs had yet another game come down to the finish as third-string kicker Matthew Wright, a replacement for two injured players, made a 31-yard field goal as time ran out to allow the Chiefs to beat the Los Angeles Chargers 19-17.

That win dropped KC to a 5-8 record Against The Spread.  Sportsbooks continue to make out like bandits as the Chiefs typically take in better than 70 percent of the action each week, though against the Chargers action was balanced.

Afterward, the Chiefs wore their AFC West championship hats and T-shirts, as they always do after clinching the division. Other than that, nothing about it felt familiar. The Chiefs might well see the Chargers or another division rival, the Denver Broncos, in the playoffs this time around.

"Our first goal every single year to win the AFC West, and it's a great division,'' quarterback Patrick Mahomes said. "We're in a lot of rivalries where everybody's played each other tough and three teams are going to probably make the playoffs. That speaks to the division that we play in.

"It was an important game for us. We found a way to get a win, but now we got to keep building if we want to get to our ultimate goal.''