Live Bet Saturday | August 8, 2026 | Hour 7

**Aaron Moore** (0:00)
This is Live Bet Saturday on VSiN, the Sports Betting Network.

**Scott Seidenberg** (0:07)
Scott Seidenberg, back here with you. Live Bet Saturday continues on VSiN, the Sports Betting Network, always on Twitter, at Scott's on air, and at VSiN Live, monitoring all the Major League Baseball action in progress right now. We have a couple of sweats going on, including our best bet in that Dodgers Diamondbacks game, where we went under two and a half earned runs for Diamondbacks starting pitcher Brandon Fod. That has cashed in 15 straight games for Brandon Fod this year, yet we got plus 120

**Aaron Moore** (0:36)
Why?

**Scott Seidenberg** (0:36)
Because it's the Dodgers, the Dodgers, the Dodgers. Oh, the Dodgers that have lost seven straight games, only scoring a little over three runs per game during that stretch. Brandon Fod, four shutout innings so far, only one hit allowed, one walk and one strikeout. Keep going, Brandon Fod. Elsewhere, Phillies are tied with the Blue Jays, bottom of the eighth inning with two outs there in Philadelphia, and they do have two runners on and are threatening. And the Pirates with a nine nothing lead over the Mets. We do have the live over there. They're going to the bottom of the eighth inning. I don't trust the Mets to score at this point, so I really need the Pirates to score some runs here in the bottom of the eighth, and then maybe throw a position player out there in the top of the ninth and give up some free runs to the New York Mets with this nine nothing lead right now. But let's continue the football conversation. Last segment, we talked about the breaking news here in the NFL, and that is Laremy Tunsil, the left tackle for the Washington Commanders, suffering torn triceps in practice today. He will require surgery and be out a large portion, if not all, of the regular season this year. We head on out to the Progressive Guest Line, where we are joined by our sports betting professor, Aaron Moore here on Live Bet Saturday. Aaron, you focus a lot on the NFC East being there in Philadelphia. You watch all those Eagles games inside the NFC East. Losing Laremy Tunsil, I talked about my trench report and how this changes everything on my outlook on the Commanders this year. How in your mind does this change your outlook on the Commanders who have a current win total of seven and a half?

**Aaron Moore** (2:08)
Scott, the first thing I think of with this Tunsil injury is obviously a foundational offensive lineman that's gotta impact Washington, and it has to have a lot of domino effects. So my first thought is I'm looking at Dallas now as the beneficiary here is we're looking at the NFC East is always this idea that these teams keep beating each other up. Can Philadelphia maintain its title? And I think the first thing I look at is Dallas. Are they now going to be the clear second place team? If you look at Futures and everything in that aspect, I still think the Eagles are the team to beat there. That's obviously not any groundbreaking information, but if you want to look at number two and three in the NFC East, Washington and Dallas were pretty close.
New York is going to have some hopes with Harbaugh. So I think this really obviously impacts Washington. If you're going to look at it from a handicapping standpoint, I got to think you look at Dallas in terms of now what they can do to challenge for that NFC East division because they're probably number two right now.

**Scott Seidenberg** (3:15)
That's a great point and one that I didn't bring up last segment is if I'm down on one team, that means I probably have to be higher on another. Everything has a domino effect because these teams play each other. So that's like everyone always talks about, oh, it's a two team race in the AFC East, right? It's the Bills and it's the Patriots and then the two bad teams in the Jets and the Dolphins. Well, I mean, if you think the Dolphins are going to be that bad and contend for the number one overall pick, well, then you start to look at the division wins, right? And it's like, well, maybe, okay, so maybe the Jets get two division wins, right? Maybe like now we have to, you start factoring that and your opinion on one team affects your opinion on another team. And so that's what we're looking at here with this Tunsil situation there in Washington.
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