Follow The Money | July 29, 2026 | Hour 2

**SPEAKER_1** (0:01)
You always follow the money.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:03)
That's what I always say, you always follow the money. This is Follow The Money with Mitch Moss and Pauly Howard on VSiN.

**Mitch Moss** (0:11)
Thanks for watching, as always on YouTube TV, listening on SiriusXM channel 158, iHeartRadio, TuneIn Radio, or any of our great affiliates across the country. Mike Palm on the program, coming up in 15 minutes, VP of this great property. A lot to get into with him. He was at All-Star Weekend this past weekend for the WNBA.

**Dustin Swedelson** (0:29)
Oh, he was.

**Mitch Moss** (0:30)
And it returned last night some super high scoring games last night. And I've added two tickets on the same team to win the title. Oh, I'll run that by him coming up in about 15

**Dustin Swedelson** (0:39)
Was he interviewing to be the commissioner of the league? Because they should probably get someone in there who actually likes the sport.

**Mitch Moss** (0:43)
No, Mike loves her.

**Dustin Swedelson** (0:45)
Well, you know why he loves her? Because it gives him at least one of his pieces of content on the show every week.

**Mitch Moss** (0:51)
No question. So tons of NFL, new every team now in camp, by the way, in the national football league.

**Dustin Swedelson** (0:56)
It's amazing. And everyone has a take based on every highlight or low light you see on social media.

**Mitch Moss** (1:02)
Well, so by the way, if you missed the first hour of the show, we started it by talking about the Falcons in the news today on Tuatango Viola. He had a flare up. He's not practicing right now. And we'd like, look, we said this before this news came out. I don't want to completely go overboard and say, oh my God, the Falcons are going to stink. But I'm not, I want to be on the Falcons. I just can't be because of the quarterback room.
And I'm not going to overreact because remember what happened this time last year with Matthew Stafford? And I was freaking out because I had futures every which way but loose on the Rams to win the Super Bowl. And I thought, oh, what the hell am I going to do now? And that guy, he only goes on to win the MVP.

**Dustin Swedelson** (1:37)
I'm going to throw this one at you. Thinking of quarterbacks that might be a good fit. And I believe he might have played for him as well. What if Jameis Winston became available via trade?
If Jameis Winston was the quarterback of the Falcons, could they win that division?

**Mitch Moss** (1:55)
Well, you're talking to a Jameis Winston apologist.

**Dustin Swedelson** (1:57)
Yeah, you're a truther.

**Mitch Moss** (1:58)
I kind of am. Yeah, I get it. You're going to get a lot of bad. You're going to get... Do I say a lot of good? Dare I say a lot of good or some good?

**Dustin Swedelson** (2:06)
Well, you get a wide range of emotions.

**Mitch Moss** (2:08)
The widest... You get the widest range of a quarterback I've ever seen. No, I'm not joking.

**Dustin Swedelson** (2:13)
The highs are high, but the lows are certainly at a different level than most other people. I just wonder if they're not picking up the phone because Stefanski, at this point, he's like, I'm not doing this to just go through the motions and coach a team.

**Mitch Moss** (2:27)
I want to win.

**Dustin Swedelson** (2:29)
And I mean, Jameis Winston just sitting there backing up Jackson Dart. Is he even the second stringer this year? He was in Cleveland two years ago. Two years ago.
I don't think it's crazy to think about that. I'm throwing it out there. I haven't seen anyone report it.

**Mitch Moss** (2:41)
So the news came down. It broke on the air two days ago when you and I were hosting here on this show, on this network, that was Vida Vea requested a trade from the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And then live on the air, we're kind of like, okay, let me look at some of the numbers here. And I only, I went to like pro football focus, right? They graded every single player. And specifically his numbers against the run last year, they were not like elite. That was only one year. He's in his thirties, he's been playing for nearly a decade in the league. But the more you look at it, it's like, yeah, that guy can still have a pretty major impact. I think if he's gonna, here's the deal. He, if you look at last year specifically, Interior Lyman, Dexter Lawrence was double-teamed 246 times. Vita Veja was double-teamed 241 times overall. Those were the two leaders in the entire league. He had 14 quarterback pressures after being double-teamed, sixth most in the NFL and 40 total pressures tied for ninth among all defensive tackles courtesy of next gen stats.