Good morning, everybody. The Simple Handicap for Friday, December 27th. Thank you for making me a part of your morning.

I hope everybody had a fantastic Christmas break. A couple days without a show. We're back here on this Friday morning.

A busy Saturday, a busy Sunday of NFL football coming up. And there's a lot to make sense of and try to figure out.

We've got injuries. We've got eight weather games. We've got playoff

implications. We've got guys in and out of the lineup. We have the Saints pushing guys back

into the lineup. This is a messy Saturday and Sunday coming up. We're going to do our best to

navigate. I'll have another update later this weekend that will be over likely on the RAS Picks

TikTok page. But I'm going to try to do one

here on YouTube as well, either Saturday or Sunday morning before kickoff. There's a lot going on,

so do my best to keep everybody updated. With all that said, let's get you to your market rundown

for this Friday morning. Thanks kickoff tomorrow, triple header, Saturday football, LA

Chargers on the road at the New England Patriots.

I need a little bit of help explaining this one to me, as I've seen the paths get bet by several different sharp betters that I respect, multiple pros.

This number has come down consistently throughout the week. It's the one example of a game that we've had this season or last

season really where we're seeing the team that's got to have it. You expect the premium to be on

that team in this spot against the team that doesn't have a lot to play for in the paths.

And we're seeing the number move the other way. This is all the way down to Chargers minus

four. They got good news yesterday with J.K. Dobbins, likely to return to the lineup.

That could really save the run game. That's been struggling in a big way the last couple of

weeks. If you get him back, you have a glimpse of ability to run the football against the

Pat's defense that struggled against the run. At least there's a path here for the Chargers.

Now, I could entertain the fact that the Chargers are not a team that goes out and hangs big numbers on the scoreboard

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