Money Moves | August 21, 2026 | Hour 1

**SPEAKER_1** (0:01)
This is Money Moves on VSiN, the SportsBetting Network.

**Stormy Buonantony** (0:11)
Coming at you, Money Moves, VSiN, the SportsBetting Network, SiriusXM, Channel 158 He's Jonathan Von Tobel, I'm Stormy Bonantoni, and we join you today fresh off JVT testing out his British accent. Our good buddy, Alex Blowers, just walked out the door. And what I said to you right before we came on, I say, you do it too, but then the music started playing, we had to actually do our jobs here. But something that I don't mean to do, but I do often, is when somebody speaks to me in an accent, I often just hit them back with it.

**Jonathan Von Tobel** (0:38)
I don't think I'm supposed to do that. All right, here's the thing. I know it's inappropriate. I do it on purpose to bother Alex, who's become a friend of mine. Alex Blowers, who was on the air with us during the World Cup at some point, but is extremely British to the point where I assume he likes, you know, haggis and all that kind of stuff. So yeah, I do it on purpose.
The first time... Dick, for dessert.

**Stormy Buonantony** (1:01)
I can't remember what it was. He walked up to us at the coffee shop one day, and before he even said a word, I was just like, hello. Like, gotta rein it in.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:09)
No, see, I do it on purpose.

**Jonathan Von Tobel** (1:10)
You have weird social tics. I know that probably somewhere deep down, it bothers him as a Brit, but it's America. We won the war and we get to do what we want.

**Stormy Buonantony** (1:19)
I haven't heard enough of his American accent. That's what we really need.

**Jonathan Von Tobel** (1:22)
I'm all a titter today.

**Stormy Buonantony** (1:24)
What does that even mean?

**Jonathan Von Tobel** (1:25)
The energy is in the air. We got a bunch of our colleagues here from Sirius XM Fantasy. I'm social butterfibing, going around, saying hi to people. You've been sitting here in the cave, not doing anything.
I'm really feeling the energy. Our boss, our head honcho, our big cheese, Bill 80, said it in the meeting that we had today as a network.
The energy has shifted, right? The pressure is on, it's football season. I'm feeling good, feeling great.

**Stormy Buonantony** (1:51)
I stay inside because I'm like a vampire. You know I can't see sunlight. But you mentioned a lot of the people that are in town. We have both fantasy football expert, Kendall Valenzuela, and fantasy and betting analyst, Brad Evans, that are gonna join the show in studio today. Mike Palm, usually in studio, he's gonna be remote on the phone with us. We're excited to have the VP of Operations here at Circa join the program like he always does on a Friday. Same thing with Will Hill. We're gonna get some of his best bets today. So we're locked and loaded on a Friday, as always. Let's set the table for all the rest of the great action on deck with the rundown.
It's time for the top headlines and topics of the day.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:24)
This is the rundown.

**Stormy Buonantony** (2:26)
So we kicked off week two of the preseason last night with a couple of games. We got three more coming up today in about 30 minutes. We'll talk through all the line moves for today and throughout the weekend. We're gonna see Bo Nix for the first time since his pair of ankle surgeries today. Panthers and Jags both expected to give some of their starters a run. And for the Steelers, Jets game, a little bit of a development. We had the will they won't they for Geno Smith. It appears he is gonna go ahead and give it a go today. And for the Steelers, no Aaron Rodgers, no Mason Rudolph. It will be the Will Howard experience followed by Drew Aller.

**Jonathan Von Tobel** (2:55)
Yep. By the way, a titter is actually a laugh. So I got that wrong. I apologize. My vocabulary is not as strong as I thought it was.
But I would say I agree with all the points you just made. I think they're very sound ones because I was definitely listening. But I will add on that I'm very interested to watch Drew Aller follow up a performance in which he was very dominant in a preseason setting last week.

**Stormy Buonantony** (3:13)
Three total touchdowns in his debut. Not too shab. We will go back to the futures today as well. Recapping our VSiN NFL futures draft we had yesterday.
That was a time to say the least.