Follow The Money | August 13, 2026 | Hour 1

**SPEAKER_1** (0:01)
This is VSiN, the SportsBetting Network. This is Follow The Money with Mitch Moss and Pauly Howard on VSiN.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:23)
Good afternoon, everybody.

**Pauly Howard** (0:25)
How are you today? Pauly and the Moose, WFAN, VSiN, the SportsBetting Network. Football is here, big show coming up. We'll talk to the Meat Man as lower league soccer is back, a plethora of picks, futures, sides, totals, Wrexham, Sheffield Wednesday, Hardcore with the Butcher, also Hoops Peterson to talk MLB, our third field of dreams game, six pre-season games, and how about the first half numbers with what these are lined at as well. It's going to be a fun show coming up. As we said, we got the Moose with us as well. How you doing, my friend? Glad to talk to you again.

**Marc Malusis** (1:03)
Great open, Pauly. I mean, that was it. It was bringing me back to the Kauffman Astoria days, Queens, New York. I mean, that's a heck of an open. Good, good to be with you. Excited to talk a little football. We got a cavalcade of guests coming your way too, so it's going to be an action pack next three hours.

**Pauly Howard** (1:17)
Yes, Lou Finicaro on UFC. Also, Dan Leberfeld, Jets Whispers, what the Jets are going to do Saturday. They're up to six point favorites. Can the Jets go over their win total as well and early reports from Jets training camp. Packers are three against Pittsburgh. Total of 40 and a half. Look at, there's a two and a half in some spots as well. How about this? Green Bay, two and a half, three for the game. Green Bay, first half, three and a half at numerous spots. Love Will Start, no Rogers for the Steelers.
A ton of injuries at Wide Receiver for Green Bay.
And I don't know if the Steelers are gonna carry four quarterbacks, what the plan's gonna be. But it is a pretty good rotation for preseason. Once you get past Rogers, Rudolph, Will Howard and Allard, I don't know if Howard's gonna make the team. Are they gonna go with four guys? I don't know what they're gonna do. But the steam and the money on Green Bay.
And there's some money quotes from McCarthy going back to last week.
These practices, the last couple of days have been very difficult. You've got four installs already in. You can play games with the first four installs. Now you're adding a second and third down package. We put in a short yardage package yesterday. We're doing red zone package. We're gonna install goal line. We'll do two minutes. We're throwing everything at these guys. I think the Packers are the play here. First half as well. As you got a new coach and a new system and a lot going on in Pittsburgh, Moose.

**Marc Malusis** (2:50)
Yeah, I agree with that. I think that's a fair assessment. And you look at Pittsburgh, listen, you mentioned, I think Aller's gonna make the team. I think Howard's gonna make the team.
I would not be all that surprised if Mason Rudolph is the guy that's on the outside looking out, especially with the fact that they drafted Drew Aller coming out of Penn State. And he was highly regarded going into last season before he suffered the season ending injury. So, you know, but that's neither here nor there. You mentioned the match up breaking it down. I think that's fair. It's not about, you know, preseason game number one, nor is it for any of these teams. When you look at it, it's a matter of getting the work in, trying to remain healthy through the game, not suffering a significant injury. But Paul, I do like your handicap there in terms of it's Green Bay or nothing as compared when you listen to what Mike McCarthy, the new head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers has had to say. And the fact that, you know, this is a veteran laden team that's thinking about the regular season and thinking about how much they can get out of potentially Aaron Rodgers last season in the National Football League.

**Pauly Howard** (3:48)
Okay, this is the steam train with Cincinnati. It's back up to seven now. They are six and a half in the first half. There were seven and a half briefly showed earlier in the week. We've been over this all week. It's Altmeyer for Detroit. Teddy retires. They just signed Dobbs. No Gough and no starters. And the Lions are on a two and 11 straight up run in the preseason. Bad preseason numbers on Zach Taylor, although Burroughs is going to start and the starters are going to give it a go. Most do you agree with humans, though, that we're getting carried away. I mean, you missed a good number. Yeah, I do. Yeah, six and a half first half, seven for the game.