Follow the Money | August 31st, 2026 | Hour 1

**Mitch Moss** (0:01)
This is VSiN, the SportsBetting Network.

**Charles Huff** (0:09)
You always follow the money.

**Mitch Moss** (0:11)
That's what I always say, you always follow the money.

**Mitch Moss** (0:12)
Yeah, yeah.
Here we go. Welcome in, it is Follow the Money on VSiN, the SportsBetting Network, Mitch Moss, along with Pauly Howard. We're live downtown Vegas, Circa Resort at Casino is the spot. Big show lined up today, great guests, tons of NFL, college football as well. Nick Whalen on the program in 30 minutes. Best Bets, more additional best bets on the NFL at that time. Chris Belm, most MLB wins in the month of September in an hour. John Hanson, the guru was back. He has a plethora of best bets for the NFL season. US. Open Bets with Zach Cohen and Arash Marchese is going to be in studio a little bit later on as well. We'll talk a lot of LA sports with him, which is where we're going to begin. You have heard, no doubt, a lot of talk about the LA Rams and what has gone on since the news yesterday. Aaron Donald, multiple time Defensive Player of the Year winner. Back with the team, but they deserve to be talked about quite a bit from many, many different angles. First of all, Pauly, they dropped for the places that were still above five to one. They are no longer above five to one. They went from like plus five fifty to five to one.
Why the move? Because it's official. Guy's been out of the league for a couple of years. Is he worth dropping the number of fifty cents?

**Pauly Howard** (1:37)
Yeah. Now you got two Jack Reachers on the line now and just a beast and a great player.

**Mitch Moss** (1:42)
How many snaps is he going to go out there and play?

**Pauly Howard** (1:44)
I think he'll be fine. Week one, I don't know, but moving forward, I think it's huge. Some are saying best defensive line of all time remains to be seen. Still think he has a lot in the tank and it's scary. I mean, this was your team last year.

**Mitch Moss** (1:57)
I know.

**Pauly Howard** (1:57)
And they were so close to going to the Super Bowl.
And then they add. So let's say they were right there with Seattle and they were one, two. Then you add Garrett, Donald and other pieces to help out. I mean, that's a great job in the offseason and who cares about the picks, right? Now you got to stay healthy, but they're going to be loaded on offense. They've improved the defense big time and six to one most wins. If you want to get nuts, not saying it's happening. 50 to one undefeated is up there as well.

**Mitch Moss** (2:28)
What is the last undefeated team?

**Pauly Howard** (2:31)
That is the second choice. That is also, I think, seven to one plus 750 Excuse me.

**Nick Whalen** (2:38)
I would say this.

**Pauly Howard** (2:39)
Thank you.

**Mitch Moss** (2:40)
I would think the closer we get now, and you're going to hear some comments about this team coming up on the show, but I think I'm going to be fading both these teams going to Australia next week when they come back.
We've never seen this before. Our team has to go that far, come back and play again.
Like not that long after that. Maybe it doesn't affect everybody, but maybe it affects 10 guys on each team or 15, whatever it is, they just they can't get over that travel mess. So I don't know, I'm not I'm not going to be betting them to be the last winless team overall in the NFL. So I was going to win a lot of money to them last year, not this year. I don't have a single bet on the Rams on a future bet. And I mean, for those who don't know, if you're just tuning in thinking, yep, you know what? I got to bet them. They're the best team, the best team always wins in the NFL. Not the case. Good tweet here from Ben Fowkes.
After this news came out yesterday and they dropped a five to one, he reminded people that over the past 30 years, the preseason favorite has had Super Bowl odds of five to one or better 20 times. Those short favorites have gone for 20 They have never won the title game and it's happened a lot recently. I know that we were saying this about my home several times. It happened to the Chiefs. In fact, it's happened to them three times since 2020 When they were five to one or shorter, never won. The 2019 Patriots were four to one. How good was the 2017 Patriots? They were plus 275 going into the season.