Follow The Money | August 20, 2026

**Mitch Moss** (0:10)
Here we go. Welcome in. It is Follow the Money on VSiN, Vsports, Betty Network, Mitch Moss, along with Pauly Howard. We're live in downtown Vegas from the Circa Resort and Casino. And let me tell you, we have a one hour banger lined up today. Why one hour? Because we have the VSiN Fantasy Football Draft coming up at five o'clock Eastern time. That's why, and there's going to be a ton of us making our, well, I'd like to say best bets, but who knows how the draft is going to unfold. 13 of us are going to be involved coming up in an hour. I have, well, let me turn this upside down because I don't want anybody seeing my notes. I have two pages full of notes of teams, divisions, win totals, player props, stat leaders that I want.
And I hope to God they don't go off the board by the time I pick at number 11 overall.

**Pauly Howard** (0:57)
I'm taking a kicking prop, too. Got to get that in.

**Mitch Moss** (1:00)
Is that allowed?

**Pauly Howard** (1:01)
Yeah, stat leader.

**Mitch Moss** (1:03)
Stat leader, huh? Absolutely. Okay.
We do have two games on deck tonight in the preseason. And I'm looking right now at the screen, Pauly. And Houston is now a one point favorite at most spots against the Raiders. And the total is a shopper round is always between 37 and a half and 38 and a half in this game. Do you have any action on this spot?

**Pauly Howard** (1:27)
Nope. Because Ryan's switched up. So now Stroud will go and the starters will go at least a series. So that's why you saw the move here. It's like what Ed Salmon says. And what he was on earlier in the week, just sit back and every time a coach says something, the line will move three points.

**Mitch Moss** (1:45)
Jerry ping ponged back and forth.

**Pauly Howard** (1:46)
Look at the Detroit game. I know that happened with both teams as well. So I did the under on the Sharps, bet the under on the Sharps contest we're in. Because Houston looked terrible offensively last time out. They're on a 16 and three under run.
We get Mendoza for a half. Let's see how he looks here. And how long are they gonna go with Cousins?
Maybe we see Mendoza late October. I don't know.

**Mitch Moss** (2:11)
Maybe before.

**Pauly Howard** (2:12)
I'll tell you, they look great on their first drive, but the defense was violent nasty.

**Mitch Moss** (2:17)
That's gonna be.

**Pauly Howard** (2:18)
Arizona got whatever they wanted in that game last week. So I like that it's Stroud and then it's Mills. I mean, Mertz is out for the year, so you have to sign Rippen off the street.
I would like it in the second half if it comes down to O'Connell against Rippen, which it probably will. But under in this one, no opinion on the side, but they must do a better job defensively after Arizona made it look so easy in 21 first half points last week.

**Mitch Moss** (2:44)
Well, to me, it was fitting that those two teams played in preseason week one, because I think that they're kind of mirror images of each other. And I did this earlier in the week. One of my biggest takeaways on Monday was betting three different regular season games for the Cardinals to go over their total. And those are up in the VSiN pick page as well, vsin.com.
So I think that the Raiders are going to kind of be in the same boat, where I think they have an offense that is a professional offense, with Kubiak coming in year one as the head coach here. But also, like, look, I don't know how much Kirk Cousins has left, to be honest. And that's why I'm kind of getting scared off of like betting unders on Mendoza season long props. But Bowers is the man, probably the best tight end in football. Well, Gent D, you figure we'll have a better year because the offensive line is so improved. But the defense is going to be horrendous again this year.

**Pauly Howard** (3:27)
Did you watch the game last week?

**Mitch Moss** (3:30)
Against the Cardinals?

**Pauly Howard** (3:30)
Yeah.

**Mitch Moss** (3:31)
Yeah, I mean, for the first half.

**Pauly Howard** (3:32)
Well, I thought Rich Gannon was fantastic.

**Mitch Moss** (3:34)
Oh, Rich Gannon is dynamite.

**Pauly Howard** (3:35)
And boy, was he opinionated about it. It's just, you know, you don't have a chance if you're the quarterback or the running back, if you're going to have that putrid offensive line play.