Good morning, everybody. The simple handicap for Monday, December 18th. Thank you for making me a part of your morning. As always, recording these Monday morning initial reaction podcasts on Sunday evening. It is 4.15 p.m. Pacific time an early jump on the podcast feed tonight so that's great to get this podcast out early genuine first

reactions for all of these games that we're looking at reacting in real time.

So good to have you here on a Sunday evening or Monday morning.

I appreciate everybody who took the time out of their day to listen to the podcast last week. And I also appreciate everybody who took the time

to jump over to the YouTube channel

between Wednesday and Sunday

and lead to a record high 6,800 betters viewing the YouTube show.

I'm glad everybody is getting value from that

and the podcast.

And when it came to results on week 15,

it was as good as it gets for an NFL betting week so I hope each and every one of you

were able to take something away from the podcast and find some success with it as

well. As always here on the Sunday evening Monday morning show it is initial reactions to all of the odds that are just hitting the board

We've got Chris just laid up with the last game going final. We have fan duel D.K. and we're starting to get some

bet online openers as we go through. So with all of that said, here we go. First

look at NFL week 16 begins Thursday night football with the Saints on the road at the Rams.

This was LA minus 4 on the look ahead.

That is right where we are with the Rams 4 point favorites.

Total in this game, 44.5, right where we are as well

at 44.5 again.

I think initially the market is probably

going to take to the Rams and push this number up a little bit.

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