Follow The Money | August 11, 2026 | Hour 1

**Pauly Howard** (0:12)
Fun show coming up. Everyone stay calm, watch your language. No cursing again.
Big show coming up with the moose, Pauly and Marc Malusis. Paul Stone, Conference USA, we roll on with the previews. Geltziler on the NBA, the schedule's out today. We have numbers, opening night, the Christmas slate as well. What's going on with the Kawhi Leonard story?
The King of the North, Derrick Stevens in studio. We have to get him in the card collecting business. He could corner the market. After someone pulled the Cooper flag card, which is going for 5 million, he has more money than Kevin O'Leary. We'll talk to Derrick Stevens about the contest and what's going on. Rio La Fugazi with the Moose as well. And Ralph Bacchiano from Fox Sports to talk NFC East. And if the hype with Hertz is real, so far so good in practice. A ton of NFL news and a lot of movement in the preseason. I got trends coming out of my ears. How are you doing, Moose?

**Marc Malusis** (1:08)
Good, Paul. Good to be back with you on a Tuesday. I'm looking forward to a big news in Minnesota. A lot of football was inching closer and closer here through the month of August to start in the NFL regular season.

**Pauly Howard** (1:18)
Jordan Love will play, although I don't know who he's going to throw to on Thursday. So Green Bay now favored against Pittsburgh. Once we get to the game day on Thursday, I got some money quotes from McCarthy about installing the new offense and how it's been an issue in practice. So you have that news with Love. Colts and Browns are now favored. I know humans on a morning show made the case for the Browns. We talked about it yesterday, a plethora of injuries, cluster injuries with the Bears on defense. It is Anthony Richardson getting the start for the Colts. You got the quarterback battle there with the backup to Danny Dimes with Richardson and also Riley Leonard. They're now favored. Drake May will not play. There's three at DraftKings on that game. Browns favored as well.
Quarterback battle with not only the starters, but the backups and what's going on there. Jacksonville won't play the starters.
And Burrow and the starters will play.
We'll see how long and they are a seven and a half point favorite now against Detroit. We mentioned that yesterday that it opened three and a half because it's Luke Altmeyer, the under-rafted rookie out of Illinois starting for the Lions. And also Brissette and the starters will go for Arizona against the Raiders. They are now favored, but Moose, they're probably only going to go with Ceres. That's a lot of info, but a lot happening here in the last couple hours with what some coaches are announcing.

**Marc Malusis** (2:42)
Yeah, for sure. And the question then you have is, how long are they going to go? You hint upon it right at the end there, Pauly.
It's good to see a little bit of clarity in terms of who's playing, who's not playing. And then you have to look at the motivation when you're looking at it. And we discussed Anthony Richardson, who's dealing with the eye issue coming off the injury from a year ago as he's battling Riley Leonard. And then it's the motivation, right? We discussed Will Levis down at Tennessee quarterback battle for the backup behind Cam Ward with Mitch Trabisky, right? What's the motivation in the guys that are playing in terms of the starters? How long are they going to give it a go? So that all factors in here because sometimes when these games are decided, especially in the preseason, it's decided more so in the second half than it is in half number one.

**Pauly Howard** (3:23)
Glad you mentioned that Tennessee game as well. They're up to four and a half against the Niners. Niners dealing with so many injuries and the great battle between Levis and Trabisky as you mentioned as well. We finally have the official update in Minnesota. Kyler Murray named the starting quarterback. No quarterback controversy. He beats out McCarthy. This is the fourth different week one starter for the Vikings in the last four years.
Not a surprise here. Again, he's still owed $30 million from Arizona. So he comes in on a team friendly contract. I'm excited. And I think the fact that they won so many games last year with that motley crew at quarterback, what they had to deal with. Now you get a proven guy and former number one overall pick with Murray. I'm excited for the Vikings. Can they stay healthy? What do you think of Minnesota? Moose in that total, eight and a half.