Follow The Money | September 3, 2026 | Hour 3

**Mitch Moss** (0:19)
Thanks for watching on YouTube TV, listening on SiriusXM Channel 189, iHeartRadio, TuneIn Radio, or any of our great affiliates, Mitch Moss along with Femi Abebefe today. He is in, Paulie Howard out, Wisdom Teeth out tomorrow as well.

**Paul Stone** (0:33)
Confirmed.

**Mitch Moss** (0:34)
Yeah, confirmed.

**Femi Abebefe** (0:35)
I got the text message.

**Mitch Moss** (0:36)
Oh, you did?

**Femi Abebefe** (0:37)
Confirmed, yes.

**Mitch Moss** (0:37)
100%.

**Femi Abebefe** (0:38)
I'm back tomorrow.

**Mitch Moss** (0:40)
I told him earlier today, I'm like, we're gonna call you today on the show. And he goes, there's no point, I can't talk. And this is the same guy who originally was gonna have the teeth yanked next Wednesday, day one NFL. I could come on and do the show.
Okay. Thanks, everybody.

**Femi Abebefe** (0:55)
How about I miss opening night of the NFL season?

**Mitch Moss** (0:59)
I hope it's going, I hope the pain meds are doing their job today for the wisdom teeth.

**Femi Abebefe** (1:04)
Maybe stay away from the sportsable gaps if we're on the pain meds.

**Mitch Moss** (1:07)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't force anything here.

**Femi Abebefe** (1:09)
Don't do that.

**Mitch Moss** (1:09)
Yeah.

**Femi Abebefe** (1:10)
Hope you lock the bets in prior to this morning.

**Mitch Moss** (1:12)
We'll get into tonight's Major League Baseball card coming up in 15 minutes. Paul Stone, more college football bets in 30 minutes. Femi, for those who don't know, loves betting NFL awards. And you said that the Coach of the Year award is your favorite bet in like any sport to bet on every single year.
And you have Monkin 34-1, Aaron Glenn 25-1, you had a great line. If it doesn't make, if your Coach of the Year bet in the NFL doesn't make you vomit, then you're doing it the wrong way.

**Femi Abebefe** (1:36)
100%.
This is before the season. Now, once you get into the season, you can see some things, maybe some narratives start to craft or whatever. You can buy low on some guys like I bet Shanahan, right as we were heading to December last year or whatever, like you can kind of see a narrative forming. But preseason, if your bet doesn't make you want to throw up, you are not doing it. Like John Harbaugh, I almost wonder because it feels like an easy improvement. New York Giants had coached first year, but so many people kind of expected to be an improvement to where it's like, it's not the traditional, hey, just come in and prove it. He almost has to win like 10, 11 games.

**Mitch Moss** (2:08)
I would agree.

**Femi Abebefe** (2:08)
To win coach of the year. It's almost like there's too much expectation on an improvement to where he's starting to get into that territory. But yeah, it's got to make you want to feel sick.

**Mitch Moss** (2:17)
I have pretty much said my piece with the comeback player of the year award this week here on Follow The Money, also with Pot of the Futures, available now with Jonathan Vontubble. I will add this about the whole Aaron Donald thing. Here's what he's coming back from. The three time defensive player of the year is coming back from being one of the best defensive players in the league still when he retired and he is joining the highest power rated team in the NFL.
I can't imagine a scenario where voters give it to him.

**Femi Abebefe** (2:48)
I will say this though, as Aaron Donald comes back from being two years away and going to the Hall of Fame, I will say this, we talked about those 19 voters, five of them voted for Aaron Donald, who won Comeback Player of the Year.
I don't know if that means that there is an appetite, but at least people are open to the idea of voting for him. Now, these are not the AP voters, these are not the people that will actually be voting on the award to help you cash your ticket, but it does make you wonder a little bit, are people just going to be like, hey, I just love the story so much and the fact that he's coming back and he's a part of this Rams team that everyone loves, the Rams are the Super Bowl favorites or the juggernaut. Maybe he is a viable option. I'm not saying that I would bet plus 750 because I don't even know how many snaps he's gonna be playing, especially early on in the season, but I'm at least open to the idea that he might actually be able to win this award given that some people before the season starts are saying they're willing to vote for him.