Usually when we look back at Week 10 on Monday morning, the lone Bad Beat is obvious, like a nipple piercing at the beach. What you don\u2019t ever desire is two Bad Beats in a single week, because nobody wants to toss their money into a port-a-john and then flick in a match behind it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
But\nthat\u2019s what happened, thanks to the Oakland Raiders and Dallas\nCowboys. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now,\nto be fair, for the Raiders 26-24 victory over the Los Angeles\nChargers to hit your kid\u2019s college fund, you had to come in late.\nOakland opened as a -1.5 point favorite, but by Wednesday it had\nmoved to Chargers -1.5. After a market correction Thursday, it was\nChargers -1. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\nCowboys opened as three-point favorites the whole way. So if, say,\nyou got hosed in the Raiders-Chargers game, you could try to make\nyour money back in the Cowboys-Vikings game. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But\nyou didn\u2019t. And now your daughter can\u2019t get braces this year even\nthough her teeth look like the front porch of a haunted house. Hey,\njust tell her they give her face character. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When\nall you have to cover is a point, it\u2019s just about winning the game\nand Los Angeles was set to do that with four minutes to go after\nPhillip Rivers hit Austin Ekeler for a six-yard TD that put them up\n24-20. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All\nthe Chargers\u2019 defense, one of the better units in the league, had\nto do was hold Oakland out of the end zone. Give up a field goal,\nyou\u2019re still good at -1. But, no, L.A. opened up every lane for\nbusiness and Josh Jacobs scored on an 18-yard run with a minute to\nplay. But, there was hope. The Raiders missed the extra point which\nmeans that the Chargers could win and cover with a field goal. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For\nRivers, with Keenan Allen and his other weapons, a minute might as\nwell be an eternity, but you were thwarted in your hopes to buy those\nMannheim Steamroller tickets as a Christmas surprise when Rivers\u2019\nfourth down pass fell incomplete. A defensive hold made you believe\nin Santa again, but all that did was give Phil four more chances to\nembarrass his nine children. The game ended on a pick, with Los\nAngeles gaining all of five yards. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But\nyou could make it up. Maybe Mannheim Steamroller was out of the\nquestion, but a nice trip to the mall could happen as long as Dallas\ncovered their -3. And even though the Cowboys trailed most of the\ngame, you were never that nervous. The math was in your favor all the\nway. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\nVikings hit a field goal to go up 17-14, that meant that Dallas head\ncoach Jason Garrett would inevitably play for a tying field goal. You\nonly sweated when his team, being laden with talented players and\nall, accidentally scored a touchdown instead, leading 21-20. But\nMinnesota calmed those fears with a TD drive of their own to take a\n28-21 lead. Garrett trotted the field goal unit out on the Cowboys\u2019\nnext possession and, trailing now 28-24, you were already thinking\nabout that hot Aunt Annie\u2019s pretzel you were going to order as your\nkids skipped into Gamestop. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The\nCowboys took over at their own six with 4:34 to play and unraveled a\npunishing drive that took them all the way down to Minnesota\u2019s 11.\nGarrett couldn\u2019t kick the field goal. It would do no good. He had\nto play for the TD, which would make sure that you would be closing\ndown Sbarro\u2019s before the night was out. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then,\nthe unthinkable happened. With a second-and-two, Ezekiel Elliott,\narguably the best running back in football , was stuffed for no gain.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That\u2019s\nOK. You\u2019ve got third down and those same two yards to go. Zeke gets\nstuffed again, this time losing three yards. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now,\nyou\u2019re sweating. The taste of Panda Express slowly leaving your\nmouth, you have to count on Garrett to make the perfect fourth down\ncall to pick up five yards and keep playing with 44 seconds to go.\nYou already knew what was going to happen. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There would be no hot pretzel, no honey sesame chicken. Your kid\u2019s Nintendo Switch would remain gameless. You didn\u2019t even look as Dak Prescott threw incomplete to turn the ball over on downs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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