Good morning, everyone. The Simple Handicap for Wednesday, October 20th. Thank you for making me a part of your morning.

And Wednesday morning means power ratings. For me, if you've yet to be following the article that I post each week on covers, you can go over to the website.

You can see that. Talk to about which teams through six weeks can sustain some of the luck they've had off of turnovers.

Some of the luck they've had off high leverage down situations.

I've really focused on the top of the league.

And for those curious, a bit of a teaser chiefs number one tied with the buffalo bills i have

those rated 85 out of 100 the buccaneers not far behind it in 83 the rams and cowboys at 80

then the ravens packers and cardinals 78 77 76 then the browns and chargers round up the top 10 73 and 65 so those are the top 10 teams

you can see all of them over on covers if you want to look at the breakdown had an interesting

tweet from geoffrey benson over at circus sports one of well-respected and well-liked guys in the

industry.

Got the pleasure of meeting him last October when I was hoping to end up ultimately there.

That's a long story.

Some of you know the details with how that ultimately shook out.

But fantastic guy obviously is in touch with some of the best bookmakers in the industry.

Matt, Jeff, Glenn, all of the guys over at Circa do a fantastic job coming up with the numbers,

especially when it comes to NFL.

And there was a thread that I sent out during Monday night football where I was asking if the Bills and Chiefs

had a rematch, what would Betters who are reading the tweet make the number? And the average

reply, I don't have an exact average, but it was somewhere between Buffalo minus three and a half and Buffalo minus six.

And there were some guys that went as high as Buffalo minus seven and a half and Buffalo

minus nine, which were just imagine Mahomes getting more than a touchdown against the Buffalo

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