Good morning everybody. The simple handicap for Tuesday, December 12th. Thank you for making me a part of your morning.

It is bright and early, poured the coffee, ready to roll for NFL Week 15 with 14 in the rearview mirror.

Home stretch up ahead. 15 with 14 in the rear view mirror.

Home stretch up ahead.

Open the fridge, the wife went grocery shopping.

She has fresh packages salami in there.

So I sneak a piece before coming in to record the podcast.

Turns out, tequila and ghost pepper salami.

I'm feeling the burn early on this morning. We'll try to make it through the podcast, but the mouse is watering as we're battling through a little bit of kick and unexpected spice to get the Tuesday morning going.

Here we go. Week 15 starts off Thursday night football

Chargers on the road at the Las Vegas Raiders.

It is Easton Stick versus Aidan O'Connell,

a thriller for the second week in a row on Thursday night football.

Raiders still three point favorites, total in this game 33 and a half.

Let's talk about the total for a second.

I think it's an interesting number.

This used to be an unthinkable price, but we're seeing it often and we're seeing it multiple times this week.

So think back to last Thursday night.

Pat's Steelers closed 31. The entire world on the under game flies over in the first half.

Cleveland Jacksonville, that game was played in rain with wind, not detrimental, but it was lingering all week.

The expectation when that game was at 33.5

was that it was going to be Bethard starting

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