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N.Y. Jets at Buffalo
Time: NOON CT, CBS
Spread: NYJ -16.5
Total: 37.5
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The New York Jets are just 3-9 on the season but will travel to face Buffalo as 16.5-point favorites on the road. The game will air at Noon (CT) on CBS and has an over/under of 37.5 points according to NFL oddsmakers at bookmaker 5dimes.
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The New York Jets have lost six-straight, but facing Buffalo could be just the thing needed to turn that losing streak around.
Darron Lee will be serving a four-game suspension for substance abuse, for violating the NFL’s drug policy.
Sam Darnold has struggled in his rookie season at quarterback for the Jets. He has thrown for nearly 2,000 yards, but he is averaging just 6.7 yards per attempt while having thrown 3.8 percent for interceptions. He has more picks (14) than touchdowns (11), and he averages just 200.6 yards per game. Still, there has been promise.
Darnold has five receivers with 200 yards or better on the season, paced by Quincy Enunwa’s 427 yards on 35 catches.
The Jets have not received tremendous production from its backfield, either. Isaiah Crowell leads the team with 680 yards but averages just 4.8 yards-per-attempt, and he has six touchdowns on the season. Bilal Powell has added another 343 yards but has not rushed for a single touchdown.
Darnold has also struggled rushing the ball with just 61 yards on his 30 attempts, with a single touchdown on the season. The Jets average just 20.3 points per game this season while surrendering 25.6 to opponents. Collectively, the Jets manage just 301 yards per game, with 192.4 coming from the pass and 108.6 via the rush. It has been a futile struggle the last six weeks in which the Jets have averaged just 12.3 points per game over the losing streak. With a low over/under, we are hardly expecting a Jets explosion, but against Buffalo, it should be able to better its output of the past six weeks. Last week, New York scored 22 against the Tennessee Titans, but its defense failed it in giving up 26 points to Marcus Mariota and the Titans.
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The Buffalo Bills are 4-8 and just 2-3 at home where it hosts the Jets this week. Buffalo is in second-to-last place in the AFC East, with only the Jets trailing it. Prior to its 17-21 loss to the Miami Dolphins last week, the Bills had won two-straight with victories over the Jets (on the road) and the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Josh Allen has struggled to adapt to the NFL. He has thrown for 1,223 yards but averages just 6.4 yards per attempt and has thrown more interceptions (7) than touchdowns (5). He also averages just 130.3 yards per game with a passer rating of 66.3. Last week was one of his better. Despite throwing two interceptions, he did throw two touchdowns as well and amassed 231 yards on 18 of 33 passing against the Dolphins. He also rushed just nine times for 135 yards including a long-rush of 28-yards.
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The rush game has been harsh to the Bills, though. LeSean McCoy looks pretty washed up, with his 3.3 yards-per-attempt average on 143 carries. He has scored two touchdowns and has 478 yards on the season, but it has been largely an ineffective short rush attack. Josh Allen is a much better rusher from the QB position. Allen has 389 rushing yards on just 57 attempts, with his 6.8 yard-per-carry average, and he leads the team with four rushing TDs. Chris Ivory is more like McCoy with just 3.3 yards per carry and Buffalo averages just 4.2 yards-per-attempt as a team with nine rushing TDs on the season as a team. It has scored just eight TDs via the pass, and despite Zay Jones having caught 41 of 69 targeted passes with four TDs, the rest of the roster has been far less effective. Kelvin Benjamin has 354 yards and Robert Foster adds another 256, but Buffalo’s offense has been pretty pitiful despite these few standouts. This game may take on the appearance of a defensive struggle, but do not be so deceived: These are two teams with really poor offensive schemes and systems, just trying to find their footing against one another.
5Dimes, a popular Costa Rica-based sportsbook, has reached a $46.8 million settlement with the U.S. government following a federal money-laundering investigation, according to a settlement agreement obtained by ESPN on Wednesday.
5Dimes agreed to pay $15 million in cash, forfeit more than $30 million in assets and stop accepting wagers from U.S. customers while operating out of Costa Rica, according to the settlement agreement reached with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Easten District of Pennsylvania.
The settlement also absolves Laura Varela, the widow of 5Dimes owner William Sean Creighton, of any criminal conduct alleged against the sportsbook. Varela assumed responsibility for 5Dimes' assets after her husband was kidnapped in September 2018 and found dead a year later, but she did not have 'day-to-day authority' over its operations, according to the settlement.
'The investigation was a complete success from our perspective,' Michael Lowe, assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, told ESPN. 'There was gambling going on, but we discovered it, we put a stop to it.'
The non-prosecution agreement allows 5Dimes and Varela to pursue opportunities in the expanding American sports betting market. Varela, who fully cooperated with the investigation, made 'significant changes' to 5Dimes's operations that make it 'suitable for participating in lawful gaming operations across the world,' according to the settlement agreement.
'We achieved the objective, which is, she is compliant with U.S. federal law right now,' Maria M. Carrillo, assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, told ESPN. 'What that means for her is she is not operating in violation of U.S. law, and she is not actively taking bets from U.S. bettors.
'Whether she's positioned well for regulators, that's up for the regulators to decide,' Carrillo said. '[5Dimes] certainly is no longer in violation of federal law.'
In an interview with ESPN, Varela said she is ' very, very happy and very excited about what the new chapter of 5Dimes can be.'
Creighton, a native of West Virginia, launched 5Dimes around 2000. At a time when sports betting in the U.S was restricted to primarily Nevada, 5Dimes grew it into one of the most popular online sportsbooks that served American bettors and eventually attracted attention from federal investigators.
In 2016, the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security, revealed it was investigating 5Dimes for money laundering, according to a seizure warrant filed in U.S. District Court that year. In the warrant, an agent detailed how he believed 5Dimes instructed bettors based in the U.S. to use gift cards as a way to place and later cash out bets. Creighton was never formally charged; however, the investigation remained open for years.
5Dimes used third-party payment processors to accept illegal payments from U.S. customers, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in the settlement agreement. The third parties processed credit card transactions for 5Dimes that concealed the nature of the charges, and received funds from U.S. customers' credit cards that were then transferred to bank accounts of shell companies operated by Creighton, according to the settlement.
Varela, through her attorneys, contacted the Eastern District of Pennsylvania in the spring of 2019 and offered her cooperation to settle the case. According to the settlement, she helped retrieve assets, but the parties agreed that her cooperation 'did not include information about the identities of individual U.S.-based customes.' Gold coins, cryptocurrency, funds from the sale of season tickets to the Pittsburgh Pirates and West Virginia University basketball and football, and a 1948 George Mikan rookie basketball card that Creighton purchased for about $400,000 are among the forfeited assets.
The Department of Homeland Security gifted the Mikan card to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C, according to the settlement agreement.
On Sept. 7, 5Dimes posted a notice on its website that it would stop accepting online bets from U.S.-based customers and instructed them to withdraw funds by Sept. 25. Any funds not requested by bettors before the deadline will be turned over to Epiq, a third-party claims administrator who will help the distribution process. Any funds not claimed by Sept. 30, 2021, will be forfeited to the U.S government, according to terms in the settlement.
Varela's attorneys, Stephen A. Miller and Barry Boss of firm Cozen O'Connor, said 5Dimes has established a new corporate entity, 5D Americas LLC, in the State of Delaware, as the sportsbook eyes the U.S. betting market. Legal sportsbooks are operating in 18 states and the District of Columbia.
As part of the settlement, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania said, at Varela's request, it will answer questions from interested parties, including state regulatory authorities, regarding 5Dimes and Varela.
Creighton was abducted by four men in a rented grey pickup truck around 10 p.m., on Sept. 24, 2018, after leaving the 5Dimes office in San Pedro, the Costa Rica judicial investigation department (OIJ) said last year. The kidnappers demanded a $5 million ransom and received $1 million from Creighton's family, but Creighton was not returned, OIJ said.
A year after Creighton's disappearance, the OIJ reported finding his body in a cemetery in the small fishing town of Queops, Costa Rica, approximately a three-hour drive from where investigators believe he was abducted.
In January 2019, authorities conducted raids in Costa Rica and Spain, leading to the arrest of 12 people believed to be involved in Creighton's disappearance, according to an OIJ statement at the time. Three suspects were extradited from Spain to Costa Rica in April 2019 and, as of September 2019, were being investigated for the crime of extortive kidnapping, according to the Costa Rica Office of Public Ministry.
The Assistant Prosecutor's Office against Drug Trafficking and Related Crimes for Costa Rica told ESPN in an Sept. 17 email that the case against Creighton's alleged kidnappers is in the 'final investigation phase.'
According to the settlement, Creighton was the founder and had exclusive control of 5Dimes until his disappearance and death. Varela told ESPN she had never been involved with the operation of 5Dimes and that the management team in place continued to run the sportsbook following Creighton's disappearance.
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'Months kept going by, and he was not coming back, and the reality also starts hitting, that's really when I realized the best thing for me and my family to do was to look for legal counsel,' Varela told ESPN in an interview conducted on Zoom.
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Creighton grew up in Bridgeport, West Virginia. After graduating from West Virginia University in 1998 with a degree in business administration, he moved to Costa Rica with a small group of friends to launch 5Dimes. He was 43 at the time of his disappearance.
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Varela says the loss of her husband, the father of her two young children, is a tragedy she doesn't believe she'll ever get over. 'You just learn how to live with it,' she said.