Good morning, everybody. The simple handicap for Thursday, December 14th.

Thank you for making me a part of your morning. The Marathon Media Wednesday concluded yesterday,

the ESPN radio, Nesin, to YouTube, live-stream Q&A, forward progress with Rob Zola,

Hit Man, and Cleve TA, a jam-packed Wednesday morning, a lot of opinions out there,

got a lot of great discussion on all of the shows.

I appreciate each and every one of you who took time out of your Wednesday morning.

Join the NFL live stream was a new high for concurrent viewers.

Great to see that show continue to get such a great reception and great to see people coming

back again for another episode of this podcast here on a Thursday morning.

Looking ahead now, a week of just injury concerns and question marks and complete unknowns.

I mean it's Thursday in my heads completely spinning with the injury situations that are occurring this week.

I have a lot of thoughts on games, a lot of thoughts on sides and totals.

When it comes to injuries, the way that the league is trending with how all of these are

being handled, I just don't have a lot of answers for a lot of those. We'll try to make the most of it

and get through the market rundown for this Thursday, December 14th morning.

Starts off tonight with the chargers on the road at the Las Vegas Raiders.

Keenan Allen is a no-go for the Los Angeles Chargers,

a bit of a surprise, but also perhaps an indication

of where the chargers are looking at handling this season and where this is going to continue to go.

He's been playing through a lot and now you have Justin Herbert and nogo.

All of a sudden, Keenan Allen, unable to go for Thursday after three consecutive non-participations at

practice officially ruled out. Aidan O'Connell getting the start for the Raiders

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