Good morning, everyone, the simple handicapped for Thursday, December 30th.

Thank you for making me a part of your morning a little bit more of a traditional episode today

after a very long episode yesterday that was generally well received.

So I appreciate everybody who reached out with a direct message or mentioned on Twitter.

Glad to have you listening, as always, jumping right into it to get you on your way in less

than 12 minutes this morning.

Get started with Las Vegas on the road at the Indianapolis Colts.

The game that has everybody all twisted around, Stephen Holder, beat reporter for Indianapolis,

was generally optimistic about the chances of Carson Wentz playing in the game on Sunday. He has to be activated by Saturday

afternoon, but nobody has a concrete announcement on whether or not he is symptomatic.

It seems like all signs when you're reading between the

lines suggest that he isn't, which under new protocols, just mean he's going to be out there,

plain and simple. You just have to say you've improved and you're good to go. You get the green light.

And we saw the market react a little bit to some of those tweets that were sent out. We're back to

six and a half this

morning. And I will be honest that I have gone back and played a middle here off to seven and a half.

It's not something I'm going to post on Twitter. Just last year I was doing a lot of middle

stuff. And it led to a lot of confusion because it's something that a lot of people

don't do. It's something a lot of people don't understand. And quite honestly, any time that I

tried to do it, it led to backlash on me and how I was sending things out, taking both sides.

It was a mess. So within the bet thread, it's going to be stuck on Las Vegas plus

seven and a half. If you're looking at this game this morning, no harm in taking back some

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