Good morning, everybody, the Simple Handicab from Monday, August 26th. Thank you for making me a part of your morning. I want to remind everybody that this is episode one of three, which is uploaded on the podcast feed today for Monday, August 26th. There's a Lions episode, a Bears episode, and a Vikings episode. If you've not listened to all three, it depends what order it comes in. It's out of my

control, but it'll be on your podcast feed. So if you're on Apple or Spotify, you can go back,

you can see those episodes and listen to them when you were ready. Before we get into talking

about the Detroit Lions, want to tell everybody that the RAS NFL service is ready to go for the

regular season. First play will be sent out tomorrow, Tuesday,

August 27th. We're thinking 9.30 a.m. Pacific time. Not confirmed yet. That will be sent out

via text and email warning. But if you are interested in getting all of the plays today through

the Super Bowl, you can head over to raspicks.com slash NFL for all the information. Preseason is wrapped up and over.

It was a winning preseason. A bit of a frustrating one with a lot of really good bets, beating the number by a ton.

We had 11 different bets that beat the close by at least three and a half points.

We ended up with losers on five of those somehow, but still it was a preseason in the

green and hopefully sending the table to come for another big regular season. Also put in your

calendar, whether it's on iPhone, Android, whatever device you might be using, live streams

return to YouTube this Wednesday, August 28th, 9 a.m. Pacific time. We'd love to have you watching live.

If not, you can always tune in after the fact. There's a live chat during the show. So if you want to join in, the really good community was built last year. We were getting about 10,000 views per video by the end of the season. So hopefully we can build on that. I'm going to start this Wednesday with my biggest and boldest predictions for the upcoming season.

Then we'll do weekly game by game previews beginning next week, which will also start the usual format of the daily market rundowns here on the podcast feed.

So lots of good stuff coming up with football finally back and we are underway.

Let's talk about the Detroit Lions.

Best place to start, in my opinion, is going back to earlier in the year when they were

able to retain Ben Johnson.

And I think it was a massive retention by the Lions to get what I would think is probably

one more year out of Johnson, out of this core guys, out of this team.

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