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Charles Curtis

A meaningless Rams field goal with 4 seconds left led to an all-time bad beat for Niners bettors

Oh this is SO BRUTAL from Los Angeles Rams head coach Sean McVay … and it made everyone wonder: Did he know the spread for his team’s Week 2 game against the NFC West rival San Francisco 49ers?

Here’s the situation: The Rams were down 30-20 with four seconds left. There was no way a field goal would matter for Los Angeles at that point … yet for some reason, McVay lined the team up for a 38-yarder off the foot of Brett Maher.

It was up, it was good, and if you bet Niners -7.5 or -8.5, you lost an all-timer of a bad beat.

Oof:

 

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