Saquon Barkley’s strategic slippage cost many bettors who bet on him to score

With 1:09 left to play on Sunday and the Eagles leading 22-10, running back Saquon Barkley scampered for a 76-yard touchdown. Barclay He chose to slide into Philly 41. With one more shot, the game is over.

If he had scored, the Eagles would have opened up a three-goal lead, with the Packers not having enough time to tie or win the game.

However, this was an easy way to freeze the game. Those who bet on Barkley to score a goal during the match have been frozen out.

Via David Purdom of ESPN.com, More bets were placed on Barkley To score more goals than any other player in any of the three Sunday Wild Card games, at multiple sportsbooks. It was also the third most popular stop out of all the deposits placed through ESPN Bet.

Barkley said after the game that he was not inclined to end the play with a long touchdown run, which would also have pushed his rushing total from 119 yards to 178 yards.

“Winning the game is the first thing you lose, so you have to get down first and get down,” Barkley said via Purdum. “It doesn’t matter.”

It mattered to a lot of people who bet money on Barkley that he would score. But that’s the risk you take when you bet.

As my bookmaker father told me when I was old enough to understand but not old enough to rebel, “You can’t win.”