Good morning, everybody, the Simple Handicap for Monday, January 22nd. Thank you for making me a part of your morning, recording this just after 1230 a.m. Eastern Time from a cold, balmy evening in Buffalo.

Was a treat to get to go to Mahomes Allen number seven. An instant classic was very fun. And I think something we can dive into a little

bit more on the Wednesday live stream. But for the purposes of this podcast, the second to last

episode of the 2003 NFL season, we're going to dive into the conference championship games,

get my initial reactions. And this is a very authentic episode as always with these initial

reactions coming up for the first time looking at the point spreads and totals for each of these

matchups let's begin with the early game kansas city on the road at the baltimore ravens currently

looking at ravens minus three and a half even money at chris circus showing plus money everywhere else on the board right now is either three and a half even money at Chris, circus showing plus money.

Everywhere else on the board right now is either three and a half even money

or you're looking at a very expensive three for Baltimore total in this game,

44.5, shaded to the under, down from 45 and a half at the open.

I think this is, to me anyway, the much more interesting matchup of the final two games

of this Sunday coming up.

And I say that because I think it's going to be really difficult to try figure out what

is going to happen pregame in this spot.

And that to me is because we're seeing some changes from the chiefs offensively.

And you have to try gauge if that is real or not.

And at the same time, you're seeing Baltimore come out of a game where they got a massive surprise thrown at them in the first half,

quickly adjusted, and now you kind of have to figure out what Kansas City might try to do,

because we saw them do something pretty extreme against the bills.

And so let's talk about each of this and try to perhaps a possible

conclusion on this game from the side perspective. So first of all, the price point from the

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