Arizona Cardinals head coach Kliff Kingsbury recently revealed that he will allow his players to take cell phone breaks during team meeting. While that has been received with mixed opinions by fans and analysts, Vegas is taking advantage.
Bovada recently created odds for which Cardinals player will use the most cell phone breaks in the upcoming season.
The odds-on favorite? Kyler Murray, who still has not been drafted by the Cardinals and perhaps will not be.
Here are the odds they give different players:
Which Arizona Cardinals team member will use the most cell phone breaks in the 2019-2020 season?
- Kyler Murray +225
- Jalen Tolliver +240
- Larry Fitzgerald +300
- Chase Edmonds +600
- T.J. Logan +800
- Chad Williams +1200
- Rodney Gunter +1200
- Robert Alford +1500
- Antoine Bethea +1500
- Kliff Kingsbury +5000
So you can place a bet on who will use the most cell phone breaks. However, there is no way to quantify this. If the Cardinals released an announcement to the media giving stats about cell phone use in breaks, that would be truly something new.
There are a couple of notable things about the odds.
One is naturally the inclusion of Murray. Another is the inclusion of Antoine Bethea, who was released earlier in the month and has since signed a contract with the New York Giants. Rodney Gunter is yet unsigned by any team as a free agent.
Fitzgerald has surprisingly short odds, although perhaps that should not be a surprise because of the bevy of outside projects he has beyond football.
Tolliver is an interesting player to give such short odds. There are likely very few people outside the organization who know enough to place a wager on him and, at that, he is a longshot to make the team anyway.
Plus, what is odd about these odds is how it assumes Kingsbury will simply let individuals step out to use their phone in the middle of a meeting. That isn’t how it is going to work.
Kingsbury will keep meeting segments short and give everyone a short break so they can all get on their phones.
The moral of the story is do not place any wagers on this prop. You will lose your money.
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